We have a group of self-paced, on demand courses that we are considering supporting with the SCORM player feature in Canvas.
These courses will have no instructor, no discussions or interaction of ANY type outside the SCORM content.
In a nutshell, the Canvas course will contain just one graded assignment in the gradebook.
Our intent would be to provide the student URL's to such a course in their student portal (SIS). The student experience we'd like for students enrolled in such a canvas course include:
- student clicks the link to their course in their student portal
- the student visits the course home page & the SCORM content automatically launches
- ancillary navigation elements (discussions, syllabus, etc.) are hidden
- the student exits the SCORM content, his grade and progress are saved in the gradebook and the student is returned back to the student portal
Has anyone used Canvas courses in this way?
Got it.
Canvas doesn't let you to set an assignment as a home page. The only options I can think of is to create a canvas front page that has a redirect to the assignment, but that would require a redirect script, and I don't think Canvas will let you embed JavaScript out of the box into the page.
The other options is to get the link to your assignment, and embed it in an iframe, which is far from elegant, but it would work.
With limited options, I would just create a home page with a giant "Start" button that will link directly to the assignment. It adds an additional level of user interaction, but hopefully that wouldn't completely ruin the user-experience... I know you stated you wanted it to load automatically, but without a redirect I don't see how it would happen.