I am wondering if Canvas could consider allowing admins to change the name of course navigation items? I am thinking particularly of the item called 'modules' which is a really useful item to have available to students - but the name is confusing in our case as the whole course is called a 'module'. Thank you for your consideration.
@marie_pearson - yes, your Canvas Admin can apply coding to the theme of your account (or subaccount(s)) which will function to rename a course navigation item. We do that now for the Canvas Syllabus page and rename it 'Summary' as we have a 3rd party syllabus tool which we have appear as 'Syllabus'. And we also have this here:
/ Rename BigBlueButton to Conferencesif ($('#section-tabs a[href*="/conferences"].conferences').length) {$('#section-tabs a[href*="/conferences"].conferences').html($('#section-tabs a[href*="/conferences"].conferences').html().replace(/BigBlueButton [(]Formerly Conferences[)]/g, "Conferences")).attr("aria-label", "Conferences");}// Same change in Navigation > Settingsif ($('#nav_edit_tab_id_12').length) {$('#nav_edit_tab_id_12').html($('#nav_edit_tab_id_12').html().replace(/BigBlueButton [(]Formerly Conferences[)]/g, "Conferences")).attr("aria-label", "Conferences");}
One consideration is that the term 'Modules' is so much part of a Canvas course, the guides, etc. I would for sure consider if changing that name created new problems. 😉 ~ Jeff
Thank you so much for your quick response Jeff - very helpful. I agree that renaming can come with issues of its own! Food for thought… 🤔
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