I have searched for answers to this but have found none, probably because there is no solution. But, just in case, I'm going to ask.
Background: My course is a face-to-face class, and we use Canvas to archive assignment instructions, house supplemental multimedia materials, and to facilitate the submission and evaluation of assignments. It has worked well for all of us: students don't have to wait for feedback; I don't have to cart around files. I allow them to upload photos of handwritten work if necessary (e.g. concept maps drawn up for essay brainstorming). Here is the problem: by the end of the course (now), we've got 61 assignments (five essays, five rough drafts, and (apparently) 51 writing process artifacts (reading questions, outlines, sentence-combining practice, and so on.
Problem and Question: The gradebook has become difficult to manage, primarily because while it is clustered by assignment group (i.e. by essay unit), I can't collapse completed groups but instead have to scroll through them all to get to what I need. Arranging by due date doesn't seem to help (at least I can't figure out how to reverse-list it--most recent first).
Is there a way to collapse assignment groups in the gradebook?
Many thanks,
Teeka James
Hi Teeka James...
To my knowledge, there isn't anything on the front end of Canvas that would allow you to collapse columns in the gradebook other than manually grabbing the side of a column and shrinking the size of it. However, with several assignments populating your gradebook, that's probably not the best option/solution. In searching the Canvas Community website, I came across these two, now archived, Feature Ideas:
Collapsable Gradebook Columns by Assignment Group
collapse grade book by module or assignment group
Both of these Feature Ideas didn't get many votes, and so they were put into Cold Storage, so you may need to "Follow" the group and also click the "Actions" >> "Join group" menu in order to see them.
I'll go ahead and share this question with the New Gradebook Users Group here in the Community because work is being done on a new gradebook layout, and maybe they could incorporate something like this in the future? Who knows.
I hope this helps, Teeka!