Files (Images) Insitution Level?

Is it possible to share stock banner/header images in a way that they are available to ALL courses? We'd like to have a collection of stock banner images that IDs or faculty can insert into the home page and other pages of their courses for consistency. Ideally the could be stored at the institution level and be available under files for ALL courses. Is this possible?

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HennyTasker1

I've done this with an S3 (AWS) bucket or with Box. I believe you could even do it with Google Drive, but I've never done it. You can embed images hosted there in Canvas, same as images hosted within Canvas.

Here's documentation on using the Embed widget with Box https://developer.box.com/guides/embed/box-embed/

You should consider the pros and cons of doing this and consult with your school's IT/sysadmin if unclear.

Chris_Hofer

@RyanHayes ...

Interesting question! Unfortunately, there's no built-in place I can think of where you'd be able to store images/files/documents, etc. in a central location that all people would have access to. What you *could* do, though, is to create a separate Canvas course shell and put all your shared files in the "Files" area of that course. You would then want to have an automatic enrollment process (maybe someone from your IT department ... or whoever automatically sends enrollments from your SIS to Canvas) to enroll your IDs and faculty into that course. They would then be able to log into that course at any time and download whatever they wanted based on what you upload to the course. Anyone who downloads files from this course would want to make sure that they upload those files to their own Canvas course(s) and then link to or embed those files/images.

I suppose you *could* use Canvas Commons to share files, and then folks could download/import those from Commons to their own course(s). But, I was a bit hesitant to suggest this only because I realize you might want to be sharing a lot of files...and so this might be a bit of initial leg work on your end to get set up...since you may need to share files individually. It doesn't look like *.zip files can be shared to Commons: What types of document and media files can be shar... - Instructure Community - 1792.

I hope this might help in some way. Sing out if you have any questions.

Jeff_F

Hello @RyanHayes - does the faculty development team have a resource course for faculty? Course development information and links to an image repository could be placed within.

And of course the Cidilabs DesignPLUS integration has several useful features and time savers. https://cidilabs.com/landing/design-tools/

paul_fynn

Yes you can @RyanHayes but it requires a bit of creativity.

We have a community site which is set to be institutionally accessible. i.e. anyone enrolled in our institutional instance can read anything linked from there but can't access anything not linked. You may or may not be able to change this setting in Settings > Visibility or may need to ask your top level local Canvas team to change it.

Our template icons are stored as svg files(doesn't show up on learning analytics) and inked from there to our course level templates (I'll add the code below).

https://canvas.anglia.ac.uk/courses/42983/pages/about-the-module" data-api-endpoint="https://yourdomain/api/v1/courses/42983/pages/about-the-module" data-api-returntype="Page"> https://yourdomain/courses/20384/files/1895407/preview" alt="module information" data-api-endpoint="yourdomain/api/v1/courses/20384/files/1895407" data-api-returntype="File" />

About the module - is the page that the template icon points to in the course 42983 in which the icon has been deployed and is both the href and endpoint
895407 Img Id and src is the specific file and file location for the specific icon in the institutional access site 20384

When our faculty changes its mind about the text content of the icon, or the colour scheme, we can change this once centrally and it will appear in its new form in its next load or refresh.

Happy tinkering !

paul_fynn

Just noted this in the Roadmap, which may be relevant :-

An institution-wide media library will allow educators to store media in a central repository that is visible to all educators within the institution, making it easy to share resources across courses.

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