I created a Canvas Idea called "Home Page: Add a Next Button When Using a Front Page". If you have a moment, would you please click the link below and add your own comment? The more support an idea has then, hopefully, Canvas might consider implementing the idea.
I was encouraging a professor to use a Page as the Home Page, which would give students a "landing pad" when they opened the class, and the Page could be changed to the next Front Page the following week. But then we realized that a Home Page did not have a navigation button to go to the next module. My Canvas Idea was to add a Next button to the Home Page, or to make the Home Page go to the actual Front Page that was chosen and not to a strange copy that did not have a Next button.
Let me know any suggestions to improve my Canvas Idea. Thank you for your support!
Canvas Community - Home Page: Add a Next Button When Using a Front Page
John Cavano, OTR/L, ATP
Professor / Assistive Technology
San Joaquin Delta College
5151 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95207
john.cavano@deltacollege.edu
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DeltaCollege.edu/DSPS
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