[ARCHIVED] There is no Edit and Upload buttons in Themes

[jameshanlon1]

My school (Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine) purchased Canvas. I downloaded the Bitnami/Debian/Canvas VM to load up in VirtualBox to test custom CSS and Javascript themes because I don't want to test on the live server. I do not see the Edit and Upload buttons in Themes. Is this not a feature on the Canvas download or is there a config file I need to edit to make it available?  Thanks for your assistance on this.

[jameshanlon1 · Accepted solution]

I spoke with our LMS administrator for the organization and said we are working in the production environment so I wondering how I can test features in a test environment. Can I create a sub-account and test CSS and Javascript in there and delete it when I am done?

[dgrobani]

Are you aware that Instructure provides you with a test environment , as well as a beta environment , that you can do testing in?

[jameshanlon1 · Accepted solution]

I spoke with our LMS administrator for the organization and said we are working in the production environment so I wondering how I can test features in a test environment. Can I create a sub-account and test CSS and Javascript in there and delete it when I am done?

[jameshanlon1]

Thanks for your quick response. I may be in the beta or test environment right now because I know that they will be copying everything over from the site I am in now to another site at some point. However, I am still wondering why I can see the two buttons in Themes. Also, SCORM is not in this program. 

[dgrobani · Accepted solution]

You can do whatever you want in the test environment--it gets reset every three weeks with the data from your production environment. Check out this page on the test environment. 

[jameshanlon1]

Thanks Adventurer for your response. Our organization does have access to the test environment. So if we make a user and admin in the test environment, there would be no way for the user credentials be replicated to the production environment. Then in 3 weeks the account would be written with the original access. 

[dgrobani]

That's right. If you want changes you make to your test environment to appear in your production environment, you'll have to make those same changes manually in production.