Is it possible to hide native (not external tools) course navigation links by default? eg. the Files menu link.
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We want to make some navigation links hidden by default when the course is created. Not external LTI's - as we can do that by XML. An example is the Files link we want to hide it by default. Any ideas?
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You can do it with the Tabs API, and the id of the default tabs looks consistent (i.e. you get the files tab with `/courses/{course_id}/tabs/files`)
So you can do the update in one step (per class):
curl -X PUT "https://{canvas_url}/api/v1/courses/{course_id}/tabs/files" -F "hidden=true" -H "Authorization: Bearer {SUPERSECRET}" | jq --raw-output
which for the course I tested it with returned:
{
"id": "files",
"html_url": "/courses/28241/files",
"full_url": "https://templeu.instructure.com/courses/28241/files",
"position": 4,
"hidden": true,
"visibility": "admins",
"label": "Files",
"type": "internal"
}
It seems worth pointing out -- I'm pretty sure that that the link will just greyed out for Teachers, not invisible (alas, I tried -F "enabled=false" and -F "visibility=false" just to see, but they didn't have any effect -- I'm guessing that disabling the tool would break the course files functionality, not just hide the link entirely).