[Rich Content Editor] Make variables such as student name available to allow teachers to provide personalized messages to students
There is information in the system that teachers can benefit from if allowed access to it, such as date, course title, student name, etc. From the research I have done of canvas functionality I do not see anyway I can personalize an announcement or anything else to a student. Access to variables that contain that information would allow teachers to do this. Another example of a use case would be a static footer on certain pages, that include the current date, for things such as when the page was printed. Not having access to hat environmental variable impedes implementations like that one. This is something I was able to do on Desire to Learn when my institution was using that platform. I have lost that functionality now that we have migrated to Canvas. A quick search on Canvas forums shows there is a need for this functionality and this is not an isolated request.
Allow access to variables that currently contain the information requested. The system already knows who is logged in, as seen in the information displayed in the Account section of Canvas, it has the name of Course, the platform knows the date and time, as seen in the timestamps provided with the assignments. Other LMS platforms that allow access to this type of information, make it easy to identify the information being requested as system data by specifying specific formatting to use such as in the case of D2L, which requires the use of curly braces {} around the variable name. - {FirstName} First name of the user - {LastName} Last name of the user
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