The Muse-k Man

“Trouble in Park City” — From the producer of KennethWare comes the heartwarming and inspiring tale of the benefits of having a programmer in your design community. See how having access to LTI, Canvas APIs, and a little jQuery can revitalize and enrich your design process and course development experience

Presenter: Kenneth Larsen - Utah State University

Location Map & Room: SILVERADO 2

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kenneth_larsen

Never heard of USU Design Tools (aka KennethWare), you can visit designtools.usu.edu to find out more.

dwillmore

Kenneth,

Would you mind sharing your slides? You should also record your Canvas Trouble!

kenneth_larsen

My slides are web based and can be found at InstCon15 - The Muse-k Man. Spacebar will take you to the next slide or you can use the arrow keys to navigate. Esc will bring up an overview where you can jump to a specific slide.

kenneth_larsen

Just for fun, here is the code to create the course filter on the My Courses page. Copy and paste it into your global JavaScript file:

/////// Course List Filter ////////

if ($('#my_courses_table').length > 0) {

var kl_course_filter = '

Filter by Term: View All',

kl_course_terms = [],

txt;

// Loop through all of the courses and build a list of terms

$('td.course-list-term-column').each(function () {

// Grab the text

txt = $(this).text();

// Add if not already in the array

if ($.inArray(txt, kl_course_terms) === -1 ) {

kl_course_terms.push(txt);

}

});

kl_course_terms.sort();

// Loop through array and build options

$.each(kl_course_terms, function (index, el) {

kl_course_filter += '' + el + '';

});

kl_course_filter += '

// Add the select before the course list

$('#my_courses_table').before(kl_course_filter);

// Filter the courses when a term is selected

$('#kl_course_filter').change(function () {

var selectedTerm = $('#kl_course_filter option:selected').text();

console.log(selectedTerm);

if (selectedTerm === 'View All') {

$('.course-list-table-row').show();

} else {

$('.course-list-table-row').hide();

$('.course-list-term-column:contains("' + selectedTerm + '")').closest('tr').show();

}

});

}

MAJ18

You sir, are awesome. Thanks!

Matthew

Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse the brevity, typos & lack of nuance.

ilovell

You just made my day! I was having a conference hangover and was wondering where to start. This got me going! Thanks!

Sylvia_Ami

@kenneth_larsen

You did an absolutely amazing intro at your presentation. "Trouble in River City" is one of the hardest songs to do. It's fast and has so many tongue-twisting words. You are so creative, and brave! I think you should get extra awesome sauce (and a badge) for having the most theme-based presentation. I can't wait for the video of your presentation to be posted so I can try and catch all the words again. Bravo!

unknown

I completely agree! That was awesome, @kenneth_larsen !

unknown

Thanks Kenneth!

kenneth_larsen

Instructure has posted the videos from InstructureCon. If you are interested you can find the video for this session at The Muse-K Man - YouTube

CommunityTeam

The session video is now available at:

travis_thurston

I vote "Best Breakout session" at InstructureCon 2015 as @kenneth_larsen "The Muse-K Man" session!

dwillmore

At the very least I give it my Oscar nomination for best use of a musical number in a breakout session.

kenneth_larsen

Alright everyone, trying to decide on a topic for 2016 InstructureCon. Chime in and vote now at

unknown

I have your code in my JavaScript file but it seems to have stopped working. There is no longer an option to select a specific term. We have not yet switched our Live system to the new User Interface. Any ideas why this stopped working and will the code work with the new interface?

Thanks,

Karen Klein

kenneth_larsen

KK127904, thank you for posting. One of my coworkers pointed that out yesterday and I fixed the code, but I couldn't remember where I had shared it. I have updated the code in the original post above.

unknown

Thank you for the quick fix. Still not working in the legacy system but we’re switching to the new user interface in a couple of weeks so we’re good for now. Thanks a million!

Karen

kenneth_larsen

That is likely a file caching issue since we are still on the legacy UI as well. A hard refresh in Canvas doesn't seem to update the cached files lately.