In Canvas Common, is it possible for local university Canvas administrators to pin the top listed default results

[cmccann1]

As I was saying from the title ....the top listed default results by just entering the Common’s page, so that preferred results are already at the top of the page by default.

It would be great for communicating with new Canvas users how to access design templates.

Hey, good moring 🙂 Oh it's easy -- just go to Canvas > Click Common > top of the page you’ll see our design template(s) ← Super simple from a USER perspective.

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @cmccann1,

Yes, your institution admins can absolutely do this by marking the content as "featured". The  How do I edit the details of a resource in Commons... - Instructure Community - 1811  guide shows how to do this.  I have marked one on our institutuon items as featured, and it's always the first thing displayed when users click on the commons icon.

Hope this info helps!

-Chris

[kthompson2]

I marked a page as featured, but it still comes after Apple Education resources which are also featured. How do I put our resources above all others? Thank you! 

[chriscas]

Hi @kthompson2,

I can't find a guide that explicitly states this, but I believe based on what I see in our Canvas instance that featured resources are displayed in alphabetical order.  You could un-feature whatever Apple Educations you have featured now, but that may not be ideal either.  Perhaps you could try putting a number in front of your resource names to see if that would move them ahead of Apple alphabetically, though I know that's a bit of a hack and might not look ideal.  I don't think there are any other options available right now.

I do know Commons is getting some work done on it in the near future, but I have no idea if there will be any changes in this area.  I've always thought of the featured resources as a spotlight, and kept that spotlight on only a handful (less than 4) resources at any one time, so this hasn't really come up as an issue for my institution.  I could see how featuring more resources could become problematic for display though.

Hopefully the info helps, even if it's not an exact answer to your question.

-Chris