Blueprint: removing "Choose Home Page" option

[QC99_tsilvius]

Hello, everyone!

I'm having trouble finding a feature that prevents teachers from changing their Front Page selection on their Blueprint courses. We'd like to maintain a consistent student/parent user experience for each course's Home Page when they enter any of our courses, but we have found that teachers change their Home Page to Modules or Syllabus or even another page. I've seen the video about locking Blueprint items by General Locked Objects and Locking Objects by Type, but those options seem to point more towards preventing content on a Page from being edited, which we already use.  🙂 

I'm interested in a Blueprint setting that would prevent the "Choose Home Page" button from being an option or perhaps displaying in the course once deployed. Does this feature exist, and if not, can you point me to a feature request page?  

Thanks for the help.
Todd

PS - If the feature does not exist, I'm also open to insight/discussion in a reply as to why a feature like should NOT exist for an institution's Blueprint courses to help me understand why it has not been developed. Thanks again!

[am-bristol11]

Hello!

We wanted the same at our school however I found out from Canvas this is not a built-in option. The only solution is potentially hiding the button with CSS/HTML from everyone through Themes on the admin side.

I would love to see a built in option in the future.

[QC99_tsilvius]

Thanks for the reply -- maybe there's a 30,000 foot view reason why that option can't be built-in, but your solution sounds like it could work -- however, it sounds all-or-nothing even on manually-created courses teachers design for their own use. I'll check the feature requests -- maybe there's a request in there already for this that could use an extra up-vote  🙂 Thanks again for the time to reply!

[am-bristol11]

No problem! I want to give it an up-vote as well I will see if I can look at the request area.

[JamesSekcienski · Accepted solution]

If you were to go the CSS/JS route for a theme modification, it is possible to have separate themes for separate sub-accounts.  So you could add the necessary CSS/JS to only the sub-accounts that you want the modification applied to.

Alternatively, if you apply the modification at the root account level, you could add in an additional check about the course to see if the button should be hidden or not.  I'm not sure how your courses are set-up, but if your blueprint and associated courses have SIS IDs while manually created courses don't, you could check if the course has an SIS ID before applying the change to hide the option.

Keep in mind that theme modifications like this don't fully prevent the ability to make the change since this doesn't modify user permissions, but rather it makes it harder to change since it hides/removes the option from the UI.

Also, that is a great Idea to check if someone has already submitted this as a feature request and if not, please be sure to submit it as a new Idea.  I agree that this feature could be useful to help ensure a consistent online learning experience.

[ann_strickland]

I am curious if anyone out there has written the CSS/JS to remove the "Choose Home Page" option? I am also interested in applying this to some of my sub-accounts but have not worked enough with coding to know how to do it successfully.