The idea is fairly straightforward: add the ability to define a "default configuration" for all new courses. This would mean that, instead of the Canvas default settings, when a new course is create those setting chosen by the institution would be loaded. This would include, but is not limited to:
- Term
- Starts
- Ends
- File Storage
- Grading Scheme
- License
- Copyright
- Visibility
- Format
- Offline Course
- Everything under "more options"
- Navigation
I can think of 2 ways of implementing this idea:
- Make it a one-off that can only be configured at root
- Make it like the account-level rubrics and/or themes
- When creating a new course, the user would select the configuration to use, if nothing is selected it just uses the Canvas defaults
This idea could also be combined to work with @Kelvin_Dean 's idea for https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/16398. This integration of ideas I could see coming in one of the following 2 methods:
- When creating the course, the configuration used is stored in the course settings (read-only) and resetting restores to that configuration
- When resetting the configuration the user is offered the same choice to select a configuration to reset to, even if it differs from what was originally used
Both of those integration possibilities would allow for selection of what settings to restore (i.e., navigation-only).
