We have a course that is taught in both English and Spanish but there does not appear to be a way for teachers or students to set their language preference for Canvas controls menus ,etc. It would be ideal if we could display both languages at the same time.
Hi Gary,
Teacher can change language settings How do I change the language preference for a course? When in that course everything will be in Spanish and once they go to their Dashboard everything will be back to English.
Have a great day.
Yaddira,
Thank you for your comment. The problem is that we have some people that want to access the course in English and some that want Spanish and they will be working in the course at the same time. It would be nice to have both languages displayed at the same time, like the Canadians do with English and French on signs.
Take Care.........Gary
Gary Sheets, Having multiple languages in one page is very easy, it is imply a matter of setting the language attribute in HTML, for example lang="en" or lang="es". You can also use the method shown at Course Modules: Chip sandbox to have multiple version of the same content, but only display one of them at a time (with the ability to toggle between them).
If you want to display them in parallel can use the method shown at https://kth.instructure.com/courses/11/pages/multiple-column-and-multiple-language (using flex) or Two column multiple language display: Chip sandbox (I notice that the left column is missing some of the text when I display it with Chrome on either Window 7 or OpenSuSE 42.3.
While when using flex it seems to do better:
- although there is a link marker being shown in the left column that I think should not be there!)
While the user can set the language of the user interface with several clicks of the mouse, it would also be possible to make button for the course that could be added to the left menu to enable a user to toggle between a set of languages for the user interface (by using the Canvas API to change the value of the user's preferred language by setting the parameter "user[locale]" in
There are many ways that this could be realized.
I've added the display of the HTML for the two pages at Two column multiple language display -showing HTML: Chip sandbox and DisplaMultiple columns and multiple languages - HTML displayed: Chip sandbox
Hi Gary,
Teacher can change language settings How do I change the language preference for a course? When in that course everything will be in Spanish and once they go to their Dashboard everything will be back to English.
Have a great day.