[ARCHIVED] Creating faculty-only course navigation tab

[efalconer]

I was able to create an admin-view only tab a few years ago with the code below. Now it is not working.  Can anyone help?

I want the tab to go to Canvas for Faculty : Teach With Intent: Faculty Resources  so that faculty have easy access to templates, etc. #xml ##course navigation

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><cartridge_basiclti_link xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticc_v1p0"    xmlns:blti = "http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsbasiclti_v1p0"    xmlns:lticm ="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticm_v1p0"    xmlns:lticp ="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticp_v1p0"    xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"    xsi:schemaLocation = "http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticc_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticc_v1p0.xsd     http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsbasiclti_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imsbasiclti_v1p0.xsd     http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticm_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticm_v1p0.xsd     http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticp_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticp_v1p0.xsd">    <blti:launch_url>https://example.com/attendance</blti:launch_url>    <blti:title>Attendance</blti:title>    <blti:description>Provides an interactive seating chart and attendance tool</blti:description>    <blti:extensions platform="canvas.instructure.com">      <lticm:property name="privacy_level">public</lticm:property>      <lticm:property name="domain">example.com</lticm:property>      <lticm:options name="course_navigation">        <lticm:property name="visibility">admins</lticm:property>        <lticm:property name="enabled">true</lticm:property>      </lticm:options>    </blti:extensions></cartridge_basiclti_link>

[MattHanes]

I'm not sure what's wrong with what you posted, but could you use the redirect tool to accomplish this purpose?

Edu App Center 

[efalconer]

Hi Matthew -

Thanks for your response…unfortunately the redirect tab is visible by everyone…..

Liz

[themidiman]

Going off of what  @MattHanes  has suggested, you could edit the XML that the EduApp provides and slide in the tag of ...

<lticm:property name="visibility">admins</lticm:property> ‍‍

... in the appropriate location. I often refer to this tool to make sure the tags are in the appropriate section. In this case it would be in course navigation, and then use a plain text editor to copy/paste the edited XML into the Paste XML option when adding the tool to a course shell or sub-account. 

[efalconer]

Hi Kelley -

Thanks for your help here. I love the redirect tool, but don't know how to combine that with a line of code to made visible to faculty only.

Liz

[themidiman]

Hi Liz

I've been trying to get this to work by 'eating my own dogfood' and have yet to get the Redirect Edu XML code to behave according to my suggestion. I'm going to tag the Canvas Developers group to see if anyone there has a suggestion.  

[kmeeusen]

Hi  @efalconer 

Going off what JEFHQ12951 has said, you would want to substitute "teacher" where he has placed "admins" in his snippet, because I know you are trying to limit access to teachers from you post here and on our ELC List serve group.

Kelley

[themidiman]

Just checking my understanding of the requirements against this resource in the Canvas API docs:

Scroll down to the "Settings" section and you'll see:

"visibility: 'public', 'members', 'admins' (optional, 'public' by default)

This specifies what types of users will see the link in the course navigation. "public" means anyone accessing the course, "members" means only users enrolled in the course, and "admins" means only Teachers, TAs, Designers and account admins will see the link."

The three possible choices for that element would be public, members, and admins. I'm not sure what the tool would do if 'teachers' was specified instead of any one of those three. If the intent is to hide it from students, then wouldn't 'admins' be the correct setting? 

[floresr]

A simple solution would be to use the redirect tool and hide it in the navigation.

Go to Settings > click the Navigation tab > and drag the item to the bottom box >  Save. That way the item will be hidden from students but visible to the instructor.

See screenshot below.  I hope this helps.

[efalconer]

Thanks for this idea...for my purposes, I'd like the instructors to be able to see it and easily access it within their courses.

[themidiman · Accepted solution]

So after a bit more monkeying around I got the proper XML code to show only to admins/teachers and be hidden from students:

Here's the XML Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cartridge_basiclti_link xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticc_v1p0" xmlns:blti="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsbasiclti_v1p0" xmlns:lticm="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticm_v1p0" xmlns:lticp="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticp_v1p0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticc_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticc_v1p0.xsd http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsbasiclti_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imsbasiclti_v1p0p1.xsd http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticm_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticm_v1p0.xsd http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticp_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticp_v1p0.xsd">
   <blti:title>Redirect Tool</blti:title>
   <blti:description>Add links to external web resources that show up as navigation items in course, user or account navigation. Whatever URL you specify is loaded within the content pane when users click the link.</blti:description>
   <blti:launch_url>https://www.edu-apps.org/redirect</blti:launch_url>
   <blti:icon>https://www.edu-apps.org/assets/lti_redirect_engine/redirect_icon.png</blti:icon>
   <blti:custom>
      <lticm:property name="new_tab">1</lticm:property>
      <lticm:property name="url">https://rtc.instructure.com/courses/1299461/pages/canvas-for-faculty</lticm:property>
   </blti:custom>
   <blti:extensions platform="canvas.instructure.com">
      <lticm:options name="course_navigation">
         <lticm:property name="enabled">true</lticm:property>
         <lticm:property name="visibility">public</lticm:property>
         <lticm:property name="visibility">admins</lticm:property>
      </lticm:options>
      <lticm:property name="icon_url">https://www.edu-apps.org/assets/lti_redirect_engine/redirect_icon.png</lticm:property>
      <lticm:property name="link_text" />
      <lticm:property name="privacy_level">anonymous</lticm:property>
      <lticm:property name="tool_id">redirect</lticm:property>
   </blti:extensions>
</cartridge_basiclti_link>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

When you use the Paste XML option, the name of the tool is also going to be the name of the tab that will show in the navigation. 

For the key and secret field, just type in a non-blank string of characters. I used 'key' for the consumer key, and 'secret' for the consumer secret.

I hope that this gets you what you need. Feel free to email me if you can't get it to work.

[efalconer]

OMG IT WORKS!!!!!!!

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH Jeffrey.

Really, really, fantastic. Really!

Liz

[efalconer]

This works perfectly.  Thank you so much Jeffrey!! Much appreciated. 

[themidiman]

Glad I could help!