What's coming for Catalog?

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zsgoreczky
Instructure Alumni
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You are probably wondering what the Catalog team has been working on recently and what other developments we are planning until the end of 2021. 

To recap on our latest projects, we just released some registration improvements that make the ‘sign in’ option more prominent and provide a cleaner design. We made this change because we have heard from a lot of you that students don’t find the ‘sign in here’ option and often register a new account even if they already have one. For this reason, we turned the link into a more eye-catching button and also added some minor design modifications. Let us know what you think!

In the meantime, the team has also started to work on the next new feature: the shopping cart. The shopping cart will enable students to purchase and enroll in multiple listings (courses or programs) at the same time, only with a few clicks. 

After that, what’s next? We will move on to developing a ‘bulk purchase’ feature, which allows individuals to purchase and distribute enrollments for multiple students in a single listing. 

Watch the roadmap for specific updates regarding these projects, as well as the Catalog release notes. Both of those places are where you’ll find details about updates as we are getting closer to finishing off these developments. 

We hope you’re as excited about these features as we are! As always, these new features will get released to Beta first and you will have ample time to check them out and provide us with feedback. 

This blog from the Instructure Product Team is no longer considered current. While the resource still provides value to the product development timeline, it is available only as a historical reference.

8 Comments
jsowalsk
Community Champion

Thank you @zsgoreczky for you and your team's hard work on Catalog! We cannot wait to see what is in store. Here is a link to the roadmap:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Product-Roadmap/ct-p/roadmap

Here is a link to the release notes page:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Catalog-Releases/tkb-p/catalog-release 

 

 

kmarengo
Community Participant

Thank you @zsgoreczky , the bulk purchase’ feature will be extremely helpful! Excited to see the new features. 

birger_eriksson
Community Participant

The registration improvments are good! But students who are not used to our regular courses often have a hard time finding their way back when they have logged out.
We would like a "Sign in" button on the course detail page for already registered users.

Eg like this.

SignIn.png

birger_eriksson
Community Participant

Wish list for the upcoming Certificate Improvments:

  • student_email as variable
  • Wysiwyg editor for Certificate (with possibility to upload images, fonts and css)
jsowalsk
Community Champion

@birger_eriksson these are great feature requests. If you dont mind creating them and sharing them.

birger_eriksson
Community Participant

...and were do I create them and share them?

jkayew
Community Explorer

I was looking for the "bulk purchase" option in the roadmap and did not see it. Any updates as to when we could expect this feature?