Hi All, I've just installed Zaption from the App Center at the account level and noticed the app was placed in: * Course Navigation * Editor Button * Assignment Selection * Link Selection Any ideas on how I can remove it from the course navigation so it won't appear in all courses?

Changing the placement of a Edu App (prebuilt LTI)

clong

Hi All, I've just installed Zaption from the App Center at the account level and noticed the app was placed in:

Course Navigation
Editor Button
Assignment Selection
Link Selection

Any ideas on how I can remove it from the course navigation so it won't appear in all courses?

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RobDitto

Provided courses aren't already working with this tool, here's a manual version of @James ' approach which you could try:

Customizing the tool's XML configuration
Deleting the app from the account where you originally deployed it
Adding the app again, this time By XML using customized XML (rather than By URL)

To do step 1, start with the XML currently returned by the vendor's EduAppCenter link:

https://www.zaption.com/lti.xml

Copy that into a text editor. Inside this HTML element (similar to an HTML tag):

name="course_navigation">

...

Add this line:

name="default">disabled

After re-adding the app, the effect will be that Zaption starts out as a hidden tab in Settings > Navigation.

Since we don't use Zaption currently at our institution, I don't know for sure that the steps above will work. However, this same technique has worked with other XML tools we use here. You may want to check with Zaption, both about compatibility with the "default"=disabled property and about long-term maintainability in case they need to revise their standard XML configuration in the future.

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James

@clong ,

If you feel like giving them the protest vote of "how dare you take over my entire system?" then if you remove the App, it disappears from those places you listed. Then you can go over to your testing instance and play around with it.

The other thing I noticed is that on the apps screen, there was an edit button for Zaption next to where it said it was an editor button, course navigation, etc. I don't have Zaption, so I'm shooting in the blind, but on another app (I think maybe the redirect tool) I noticed that when I went in there, I could figure out from the configuration what parameters were needed to make it act in each mode.

A third possibility, and maybe the most realistic one, is to set the navigation tools using the API: Navigation Tools. I would start with the Course Navigation Links. The first paragraph there says "External tools can be configured to appear as links in course-level navigation. If the tool is configured on an account, any course in that account or any of its sub-accounts will have the link added to the course navigation. If the tool is configured on a course, then the navigation will only appear in that course."

While the descriptions are contained on the Navigation Tools page, you actually use the Edit an External Tool API call to make the changes. The settings are explained under the Create a tool, but it looks like you want course_navigation[default]=0

RobDitto

Provided courses aren't already working with this tool, here's a manual version of @James ' approach which you could try:

Customizing the tool's XML configuration
Deleting the app from the account where you originally deployed it
Adding the app again, this time By XML using customized XML (rather than By URL)

To do step 1, start with the XML currently returned by the vendor's EduAppCenter link:

https://www.zaption.com/lti.xml

Copy that into a text editor. Inside this HTML element (similar to an HTML tag):

name="course_navigation">

...

Add this line:

name="default">disabled

After re-adding the app, the effect will be that Zaption starts out as a hidden tab in Settings > Navigation.

clong

Thanks so much @James @RobDitto and @vkg . Your fast response and clever solutions made this very easy for me to do.

All of the methods would work, but I decided to do the custom "paste" XML option as Rob described. With the API I believe we would have to run it everytime we created courses, which we do not really want to do. So I modified the XML and then used the code below and all is Most Excellent Smiley Happy

Zaption

Zaption makes video come alive in the classroom.

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https://www.zaption.com/basic_lti?nav_launch=1

Zaption

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true

https://www.zaption.com/basic_lti?browse=canvas

https://www.zaption.com/img/lti-icon.png

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