Canvas and links within Articulate Rise modules

[AnFra]

When working with multiple sections of the same course, we created "course shells" within Canvas for each course and only gave access to the subject matter expert (who was not the same as the faculty/instructor). We only created one weekly Rise module for each course and then uploaded it to the Canvas "course shell". Then a coordinator would copy the "course shell" contents to a Canvas course site for each section and only grant access to the faculty/instructor for that section. Within the Rise module, we had links to activities that were saved in the Files of the Canvas "course shell." When the faculty/instructor tries to access the links to Canvas files within the Rise course, they receive a message "Access Denied". They can view the Rise modules, but they are unable to open the links within the Rise module. The Rise modules are uploaded to the Canvas "course shell" using SCORM if that matters. Has anyone experienced this? How did you resolve it? Thanks in advance for your help!

[RobHughes · Accepted solution]

Hello, 
When you hover over the links, does the url point to the current section's files area, or a different place?  We had an issue where files stored in the main course would copy over, but they were linking back to the original.  From an admin point of view nothing looked wrong, it wasn't until I went into the HTML in the RCE that I saw links were pointing to previous sections and then just updated the URL as needed.  I am not sure if this is the same thing you are running into.

We use Rise for modules and each module has a presentation between 20-60 slides with activities and the like for our students to use to study and learn.  However, nothing is graded in our SCORM packages, and all links are to files within our organization stored on Sharepoint or external links.  

What type of activities are the Rise links trying to open?

[AnFra]

Thank you, @RobHughes. I will look at the URLs. I vaguely remember needing to update HTML on a few courses last year(I'm new to Canvas and Rise). We link to activities/assignments made in Word. I wonder, does whether the SCORM packages are graded affect the functionality of copied links? When you link to files stored on your SharePoint in your Rise modules, do you have to give each student access to the file in order for them to access it when completing the Rise module?

[RobHughes]

@AnFra I am so sorry that I just now saw this question. If you already had it answered somewhere else I hope that worked.  To answer your question: For files on Sharepoint that students need access to we created a separate area for the documents in question and give permission to anyone with the link to access the file and the paste that link into Canvas, Rise, etc..  Depending on the nature of the files some are read only and some are downloadable if it is related to an assignment.  If you have specific files for specific students this may not be a viable way as it would be a very manual task.  I could not tell you if a graded SCORM package will affect the functionality of the copied links or not as I have not been in athat particular situation.