Dashboard Organization

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I am writing multiple courses for each grade level K-6.  I would love to be able to organize the courses on my dashboard into folders based on the grade level, and then another folder based on the content area.  

 

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Allie_Dilts
Instructure
Instructure
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julia_kimbrill
Community Member

THIS WOULD BE AMAZING!! I work in professional development for the K-12 world and it would be a huge help if I could organize my Dashboard into folders, This way I am not scrolling and scrolling through courses and having to spend time moving them all around to keep some organization. Please make this a feature! 

smeyers10
Community Explorer

Yes! As an instructional designer, I get added to hundreds of spaces and trying to sort through courses is not easy!

sjones11
Community Contributor

That would be an excellent option! 

asand
Community Novice

Absolutely agree with this.  At the admin level, it would be great to have some level of organization for multiple courses/content in one place.

cquirke
Community Novice

This would be a great idea.  As a curriculum writer for my district, I have a variety of grade levels with many modules to organize.  Having a way to group them easily would be amazing.

ConnieB
Community Novice

That would be great to be able to organize the dashboard into categories.  It already does "published" and "non publish" categories, it would be great to organize by subject or levels. 

guilera
Community Participant

Would be of great benefit to admin, faculty and students...

Drop down- sort with possible options such as:

  • term
  • start date
  • course name
  • role - especially for faculty who are both students and faculty and perhaps observer
  • others ???

Or add headings???

Or ???

bryan_tayman
Community Explorer

This is great idea!   As a technology & curriculum coach, I have so many courses on my dashboard.  Being able to organize them into folders would be very helpful. 

djm1371
Community Member

Allow the creation of Categories (Like Year and Term) in order to re-arrange the Dashboard icons or perhaps even folders.

sjp17c
Community Member

I want to be able to organize my courses into folders.

I am a graduate student in engineering. I do not know if any of the other colleges do this, but engineering courses from pervious semesters do not get deleted, which helps me with reviewing material from my previous courses. However, my courses tab is cluttered with 20 different courses now and I have trouble getting to my courses' webpages because of that mess. If course folders were implemented, the courses could be sorted by semester and people with many courses like me would be able to access our current courses' webpages much more easily.

JLAL
Community Novice

 As our admin and county continue to create Canvas courses for us (teachers) to use/complete it would be great if we could create folders on the dashboard to put things in. For example I would have a folder for my current classes, one for all of my professional development from the county, and a third for school specific canvas courses. This would help to organize and unclutter my dashboard. Thanks for considering.

juliadewees
Community Explorer

As a district admin, I have hundreds of courses.  To be able to put courses in folders for term, grade, etc. would be wonderful. 

resartoris
Community Participant

Yes, district admin need this feature! Please add this option.

ColinKlimesh
Community Novice

I think that there is a missed opportunity by not having a function to organize courses/communities into subgroups in the dashboard. As canvas develops and instructors and institutions continue to build content, we are all finding our dashboards are becoming overloaded and difficult to manage. I think it would be helpful to be able to group or put courses/communities into groups or folder perhaps by subject or specific user groups. 

We are attempting to use canvas communities to create an ecosystem of communities for our specific labs and allow students to self enroll through a top level community that self enroll links to each respective community. This potentially means that students will be able to acquire upto 6+ communities on top of their course load, and there isn't currently a way to separate or organize all these communities. 

amjanz
Community Explorer

I am a university learning designer. It is so inefficient and time consuming trying to find courses within the dashboard or All Courses list, even if you favorite courses. I need to access many, many courses, so my favorites section is quite long. I'm currently using Firefox and my bookmark panel to organize everything because it's a necessity. Being able to customize the organization of courses has my vote.

AmberBush
Community Member

Our specialists (art, music, PE) have 30 classes/courses assigned to them. We would love to be able to place courses into sub folders such as First Grade, where all of the first grade courses would live and so on. This would make it easier for specialists to locate the classes by grade level since they have so many. 

Akino
Community Member

I have more than 50 tiles on my Dashboard, is there a way to place them or group them by using a folder? This would make the dashboard tiles easy to organize.

Sandie
Community Participant

I think this is a good idea. We keep all our courses for each year. If users have the option to customize their dashboard by creating folders and sub-folders on Dashboard as they wish that will be great.

 

 

KatieNations
Community Member

I think an option to create folders and organize the dashboard by folders would be very beneficial for students and instructors. It's really frustrating as a student to have all of your courses from many years past all in one place with no organization. I would like to be able to organize them by old or current classes or even by subject. I also would like if we had the option to nickname our courses.