Canva for Education LTI 1.3 - Remove Course Navigation!

[wojcika]

We recently purchased Canva for Education. When installed at the root level it enables the Canva for Education course navigation option for every single course. I want to use Postman API calls to disable it and allow users to enable it if they want to use it. When I flip the course_navigation "enabled" option from true to false it disappears from Navigation (in the course settings) and leaves it in the Course Navigation (on the left side in Canvas) menu. If any has guidance how to disable but leave in Navigation please let me know.

[Liko]

Hi, 

From previous installations, I know that JSON has an attribute for installing the item in the course navigation items as disabled. Not sure how you would do it after it is installed. I hope this helps.

LTI 1.3 Course Navigation Options 

Best, Liko

[wojcika]

Hello,

I believe I am essentially trying to modify the JSON with an API call. Here is snip of the results for the course_nav section. 

"course_navigation": {

        "placement": "course_navigation",

        "message_type": "LtiResourceLinkRequest",

        "windowTarget": "_blank",

        "enabled": false,

        "label": "Canva for Education"

    },

However, enabled:false only removes it from Navigation (in the course settings)

[jmurray6]

You want to add the "default" value if it is not there.

Here's a snippet of the JSON for our Google Drive LTI - which is the last one that I modified to disable by default (I've removed some of the values with URLs):

"course_navigation": {
     "enabled": true,
     "text": "Google Drive",
     "default": "disabled",
     "label": "Google Drive",
     "selection_width": 800,
     "selection_height": 400,
},

So in Postman build off the API URL of your external tool (ours are are installed at the account level), so 

api/v1/accounts/[account_ID]/external_tools/[external_tool_id]

Key:       course_navigation[default]
Value:   disabled

[wojcika]

Thank you so much for the suggestion. I went ahead and added that but it still appears enabled and in the course nav. Then I also tried to add enable = false and it completely disappeared from the course. Couldn't find it in the nav list to re-enable. When I flip it back to true it appears in the course navigation and in navigation again. 

"course_navigation": {

        "placement": "course_navigation",

        "message_type": "LtiResourceLinkRequest",

        "windowTarget": "_blank",

        "default": "disabled",

        "enabled": false,

        "label": "Canva for Education"

Any other suggestions? 

Your help is greatly appreciated! 

[jmurray6 · Accepted solution]

Enabled=false is essentially turning it off, so that's why that makes it disappear completely.  When you switched to default=disabled, did you try to create a new course after that? It's been awhile since I did this - so I can't remember if the default state flag only impacts newly provisioned courses or not (as it's a "default" state that can be overridden by the UI - so it might not impact already provisioned courses....only the state of the UI initially). I do remember that I did this with 5 LTIs when I first ran it (and was doing this shortly before we provisioned a new term) and it's worked as intended ever since - none of the 5 are never enabled when we provision a new term or manually create a new course. They have to be toggled in the navigation settings.

[chriscas]

I too believe that adding "default":"disabled" to the course_navigation JSON placement is the correct fix for this.  I also think you've hit the nail on the head in that adding this after initially installing without it may only affect courses created after that change happened.  @wojcika, if you want this to change affect all courses, you may want to add the value in JSON, then delete your original deployment of the developer key and put a new one in, which I think will then utilize the default/disabled config for all courses.

-Chris

[wojcika]

Thank you! I did do as @jmurray6 jmurray6 suggested and that was the issue. 

[wojcika]

That was it! I created a course in that sub-account and it was disabled by default and I was able to see it to enable it. Thank you so much!