I wonder if it is possible to create a "button" that automatically link to "current week module"?
I wish to integrate a "this week module" button at my course home page, so the students can access the current week module directly. Also it would be nice to have a similar button to "last week module" and "next week module".
Regards,
Ron
Hello Ronny Steen 
Another good resource is Chris Long's Home Sweet Homepages without Tables . And finally, check out Creating a "button" oriented syllabus page from Joshua Emmitt. Joshua points to a great resource that I have used, as well, when helping faculty with pages, a site called Da Button Factory: website button maker . That site will be perfect, especially if those "btn" styles are going away. I recently helped a faculty member build a home page using buttons created on that site.
I hope this helps a bit, Ronny!
We love DaButtonFactory. We use it regulary and show it to our teachers. I prefer fixed width buttons and you can stack them so that it looks good but will still pass accessibility audits.
DaButtonFactory is a great tool. Another one to check out is Canva! Canva allows users to have a little more creative control with making icons/buttons. I use it routinely when building buttons in my courses.
Ken, much as I'd like to, I can't rely on my memory for this kind of stuff--so I checked with the ever-awesome Erin Hallmark, who said that .btn is not being deprecated at this time. So .btn away!
BTW on the linking question, you either have to one called Current Week where you change the contents every week or you update the link every week to change to the correct module. I don't know a way to make the link automatically change by date. Maybe one of the Canvas Developers has an idea.
Thanks for suggestion. The linking issue will be the challenge. As you suggest the only option might be to change the link manually every week.
Thanks for all replies. Seems to be straightforward to create buttons for linking, although the challenge is to have a button linking to the "current" week module (i.e. changing on weekly basis). Maybe a small widget on the homepage that brings the students directly to the current week module could be possible? The reason I want this is to make it more efficient and eliminate the need of scrolling down the list of week modules for the whole semester.
To avoid going through this each time you teach the class, you want to be naming your Modules rather generic things like Week One, Week Two, etc. I guess you could always name the current week's module something like Current Lesson(??) and then when that is over rename it to its proper name. (That way, the CURRENT button would always head to the right place, though depending on how other things are set up in your class it might wreak havoc on other links.) Make sure that Current Lesson module is always at the top of the Modules page each week. YOU can move the Module order around; students cannot. Barring any module progression requirements, that should work, I think.
Thanks for suggestion, that seem to be an good solution. Also thanks for the tip of having Current Lesson module is always at the top, that makes it easier.
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Robbie
Hello Ronny Steen
Welcome to the worldwide Canvas Community! Your question may get a few responses from people much more creative (and definitely more knowledgeable) than I am, but rest assured you can definitely do this in Canvas. First of all, I invite you to join the Instructional Designers community group, where two of the links I'm about to direct you to originated. First is the great Stefanie Sanders blog posting: Creating an inviting course home page . Although Stefanie's example shows the main MODULES landing page as a link, you can definitely do this with individual modules, as well. However (and this a reason I tagged Stefanie), I seem to have heard some buzz that Canvas may be deprecating the use of those "btn" styles. I may be 100% wrong on this, but I just wanted to make sure so hopefully someone can set me straight on that one.
Another good resource is Chris Long's Home Sweet Homepages without Tables . And finally, check out Creating a "button" oriented syllabus page from Joshua Emmitt. Joshua points to a great resource that I have used, as well, when helping faculty with pages, a site called Da Button Factory: website button maker . That site will be perfect, especially if those "btn" styles are going away. I recently helped a faculty member build a home page using buttons created on that site.
I hope this helps a bit, Ronny!