Can faculty the Portfolio link on course navigation be disabled by default?

[ProfessorBeyrer]

I am taking my first look at the Portfolio tool and it looks like the tool will become added to all course navigation menus once the app is added to an account and that placement location is enabled (I assume the same is true of a subaccount). It would be great if that link was disabled by default (like it can be with some feature options). Can this change be made? I prefer that faculty interested in a tool have to enable it rather than faculty disinterested in a tool have to disable it.

[jmerlenbach2]

Since the tool is an LTI, I'm hopeful that some of the features of the Canvas Apps page will allow us to quickly hide the placement from the course navigation menu. If not, we will be using the Canvas API to do so.

The change today to utilize the inherited key functionality makes this a bit more precarious - any updates to that key will wipe out our edit of the tool, so we will have to remain vigilant.

[ldavenport4015 · Accepted solution]

@ProfessorBeyrer  The app placement can be managed upon installation to remove from Course Navigation.  I wish it would be disabled in Navigation by default instead of not having it as an option to use at the course navigation level, so that instructors could enable in course navigation if they plan to encourage or require use in their courses.   @jmerlenbach2 's option to use API to disable by default is an option, I just don't like having to reply on "in house" APIs for too much of the everyday life of Canvas.

We've been testing both portfolio types (evaluation and showcase) in our Test environment and I'm leaning toward only leaving it in Global navigation only for the end user. In my very novice opinion it is the most visible option without implying that the portfolio belongs ONLY to a course. 

I'll be curious to hear how institutions are utilizing the different portfolios in real use cases - esp. if they leave it in course level navigation. Since current Evaluation Portfolios can only be created from courses for which you are an instructor, it seems like it is just an assignment aggregated from other assignments already in the course. Maybe to allow for reflection on those assignment? Anyway, I'm all ears on use cases. I've provided one use case for Showcase Portfolio here. 

[ProfessorBeyrer]

I like that idea to make it available in global and not course navigation. That will put the onus on the instructors who want to use it as an assignment to direct their students to that link, and those who don't use it as an assignment can ignore it. I'm also not a fan of having to script something away.

Thanks also for linking your use case.