turn off the enhanced gradebook filters

[hertz_uri]

How do I turn off the enhanced gradebook filters in Canvas?

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hi @hertz_uri ...

"Enhanced Gradebook Filters" is a Feature Option that can be turned on/off first at the Canvas account level by your school's local Canvas administrator.  The options for turning it on/off are:

• off for everyone with no option to turn it on per course
• off by default, but can be turned on per course
• on by default, but can be turned off per course
• on for everyone with no option to turn it off per course

I'm not sure what option your school has set for you, but this would be a conversation that you'd need to have with folks at your school.

If you go into your course, go to course "Settings", and then click on your "Feature Options" tab.  If you have an "Enhanced Gradebook Filters" row, you can click on the red "X" or the green checkmark to enable or disable it.

How do I manage new features for a course?

Hope this will help a bit.

[hertz_uri]

Unfortunately, there's not an "enhanced gradebook filters" row.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello again, @hertz_uri ...

Then it sounds like your school's local Canvas administrator(s) has/have chosen to turn on the "Enhanced Gradebook Filters" Feature Option for everyone with no option to turn it off per course.  You're going to need to talk with folks at your school if they would be willing to change the setting based on what I provided in my earlier response.  Good luck with those conversations!

[mathlete]

You can no longer turn off this feature as of August 2023... why is that the case?

We would like to turn this off and go back to the previous Gradebook

[Chris_Hofer]

@mathlete ...

You may have already seen the documentation provided in the 8/19/2023 Canvas Release Notes, but I wanted to share them with you and others who might be reading this later on.  The paragraph under "Summary" states, "The Enhanced Gradebook feature option is implemented for all institutions. Previously, this functionality was managed by the Enhanced Gradebook Filter feature option. This updates the Gradebook view and allows the creation of custom filter presets for institutions that were not early adopters of the Enhanced Gradebook filter."  The sentence under the "Change Benefit" paragraph states, "This update provides instructors with a more efficient and intuitive way to organize and sort their gradebooks."

I know this might not be a complete answer to your question, and I don't have any insider knowledge as to why we cannot go back to the older Gradebook...but this is what I can provide for now.  Hope it helps in some way.

[mathlete]

@Chris_Hofer you stated this... The sentence under the "Change Benefit" paragraph states, "This update provides instructors with a more efficient and intuitive way to organize and sort their gradebooks."

However... the COMMENTS from a WIDE variety of users/districts would prove that to be entirely false.

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/The-Product-Blog/Say-Hello-to-quot-Enhanced-Gradebook-Filters-quo...

I do understand that Canvas made the entirely wrong decision to have the new/enhanced gradebook be the feature for all without any option to get out of it, but I'm not willing to accept that answer with so many complaints from my district and so many others willing to respond on that article above as well.

When there are so many others in agreement that this "enhanced" gradebook is not more efficient and it definitely not more intuitive, I would hope that Canvas will actually listen to its users.