LTI External tool user navigation placement

[a_kosters]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

Problem:

When adding an LTI external tool using XML (according the documentation here: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.tools_xml.html), you have the option of adding an placement at "User Navigation" level:

    <lticm:options name="user_navigation">

      <lticm:property name="text">Tool Name</lticm:property>

      <lticm:property name="enabled">true</lticm:property>

    </lticm:options>

When checking the user navigation (click on "Account" picture/avatar), you get to see a list of links, without seeing the added external LTI tool:

But once you click on any of those items (for instance “Profile”), you finally do get to see that External LTI tool (see MyTime Table😞

This is quite hidden & unlogic for students, as they need to click first through the "first" user navigation list, in order to reach the "second" user navigation list.

Proposal:

Can External LTI Tools, when added to the "User Navigation", also be added at the "first" User Navigation list?

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m.vandesteeg‌

Benelux Canvas Group‌

Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2019-08-17)

Because of the current transition in release processes, this change was deployed on 2019-08-14.

[christopher_phi]

This is a fantastic idea that would be extremely helpful - it is strange that those two menus are not the same. We recently figured out a way to inject a mnu item there that you can see at: 

Custom Javascript to inject a menu into the user navigation (user-navigation) flyout menu.

That thread describes how we setup the Kaltura "My Media" link to show up in that menu. However, given that it is a hack it would be much better to have a standard way of injecting a link there. Just recently Canvas updated some CSS that broke the hack for example. 

For reference, here are some other links I tracked down that also discussed the issue or attempted to provide solutions: 

1. Questions about External Tool placed in User Navigation area
2. A hack from  @SethBattis ‌ to insert custom items into the global navigation fly-out menus (not sure if this still works or not?)
3. A similar Canvas idea from 2016: Make LTIs more accessible to Users

Hopefully this gets some more traction! 

[carols]

Here at Sussex University, we would find this fix very useful as well.

[tylerweldon]

Hi  @a_kosters ‌ thanks for posting this. This is exactly what I need. I have a new Appointment Manager LTI that I am testing and I am having the same issue with it taking several steps to get to the App. 

[matthew_buckett]

And this went live on the 14th of August: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-17373-canvas-release-notes-2019-08-17#jive_content_id_Globa... 

[erinhmcmillan]

Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2019-08-17)

Because of the current transition in release processes, this change was deployed on 2019-08-14.