Bug Report: Canvas loses my place

[ARD2]

Canvas loses my place (how far down I've scrolled) when I drill down to a page from the list of modules. As soon as I hit the back button Canvas shows me my place and immediately scrolls to the top of the list. This is especially frustrating because there is no way to mark things as handled in the modules list. For instance, my professor has burried a bunch of really important pdf files in the modules and I need to print all of them and check that I've filled them out (they are activity sheets that are a huge portion of our assignments grade). When I drill into the modules (I'm trying to do this systematically) and then navigate back, I lose my place because Canvas scrolls.

The workaround for this is feeding the inner html of the modules page into an AI and asking for a simple HTML file that works as expected ... Using Canvas is worse than if my professors had just used an HTML editor or a Google Doc.. I wish they had just used a Google Doc.

Canvas is the worst! I am going to complain to our campus IT department. Nobody likes it and I have a feeling it makes my fees expensive. At least fix the scrolling.

[Jeff_F]

Hello @ARD2 - I often times find myself in a similar situation: I need to go through a course one module at a time and review all of the module contents. My approach for this is to use the Ctrl key when clicking each module item so they open into a new browser tab. Then after I am complete reviewing these I go back to the Module tab (still open), right click and choose to 'Close all tabs open to the right'. Then I go to the next module and repeat the process. I am curious if this approach is helpful for your situation.

BTW - I use a Win11 PC with Chrome as the browser. 

Best, Jeff

[ARD2]

Yes, I use that workaround too but it's a workaround. The bug is a real problem. Furthermore, if you close your browser window with all those tabs you have to spend all that time again because there is no way to mark things as handled or expand all.

[Gabriel33]

Can't you click the titles of the modules that you've already gone through to close them? For me, that is saved between sessions, and is a way to mark a module as "completed".

[Jeff_F]

Yes, this is what I do as well.

[ARD2-2]

It's super unhelpful to pile onto a bug report with workarounds essentially saying that the bug is not a bug because you can workaround it. A workaround is what you do when there is an unfixed bug. This is an unfixed bug and Instructure should fix it.