{"id":1390,"date":"2023-08-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2024-07-11T21:15:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T01:15:51","slug":"canvas-update-canvas-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/canvas-update-canvas-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas Update: Canvas Links\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

Canvas is improving how linking works throughout courses. One of these changes that we\u2019ll be talking about has already been implemented, but the other two have yet to be released.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course link sidebar displays name of current link <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first change Canvas has made is already present in your courses. Previously, if you wanted to change a link that you\u2019d already added to the Rich Content Editor, it was faster to just remove the link entirely and create a new link. Now, Canvas has made it simple to replace the link \u2013 and it shows the name of whatever you currently have linked in the sidebar.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To open the sidebar, click the link text, then select \u201cLink options.\u201d Choose a new link in the sidebar and click \u201cReplace\u201d at the bottom right to replace the link.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Rich Content Editor with the \u201cEdit Course Link\u201d panel opened. That panel now displays the name of the current link.  <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Course link sidebar allows creation of items if no items exist <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The next change Canvas has made is releasing on August 30. If you want to add a particular type of link into the RCE but it doesn\u2019t exist yet in your course, Canvas gives you a link to then go and create that item.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, I wanted to add a link to a quiz, but there were no quizzes in my course. I clicked the \u201cAdd one!\u201d link in the link sidebar and was taken to the quizzes page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Rich Content Editor with the \u201cAdd Course Link\u201d panel opened and the \u201cQuizzes\u201d section expanded. There are no quizzes in that course currently, so it displays an option to add one. <\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I then created a quiz and went back to my initial pages tab in my browser. After collapsing and opening the \u201cquizzes\u201d tab in the sidebar, I was able to select the Quiz 1 I had just created and link it into the page.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Rich Content Editor with the \u201cAdd Course Link\u201d panel opened and the \u201cQuizzes\u201d section expanded. A quiz has been created in the course, so it displays instead of the \u201cAdd one!\u201d option.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Please note that this feature is only available if there is none of a particular link type in the entire course. If you\u2019re building a page in a course and want to link an uncreated assignment into the page while other assignments exist in the course, you won\u2019t have this kind of shortcut. You\u2019d have to manually open the Assignments page, create the assignment, return to your page \u2013 and then save and reopen the page to add in that link.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changing page titles automatically updates links  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While all of these updates are great, this is the update I\u2019m most excited for. On September 16, Canvas will automatically update all links in a course when a page title is changed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, if you updated the name of a page, you\u2019d then have to go to every place you had linked it in a course to update the URL so it would continue to work. Now, Canvas takes care of updating that URL for you, redirecting from the old URL to the new. However, Canvas does not update the text of the link, so if that needs to be changed, you would still need to go to each place it is linked and update that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Canvas is improving how linking works throughout courses. One of these changes that we\u2019ll be talking about has already been implemented, but the other two have yet to be released.   Course link sidebar displays name of current link  The first change Canvas has made is already present in your courses. Previously, if you wanted to change a link that you\u2019d already added to the Rich Content Editor, it was faster to just remove the link entirely and create a new link. Now, Canvas has made it simple to replace the link \u2013 and it shows the name of whatever you currently have linked in the sidebar.   To open the sidebar, click the link text, then select \u201cLink options.\u201d Choose a new link in the sidebar and click \u201cReplace\u201d at the bottom right to replace the link.   Course link sidebar allows creation of items if no items exist  The next change Canvas has made is releasing on August 30. If you want to add a particular type of link into the RCE but it doesn\u2019t exist yet in your course, Canvas gives you a link to then go and create that item.   For example, I wanted to add a link to a quiz, but there were no quizzes in my course. I clicked the \u201cAdd one!\u201d link in the link sidebar and was taken to the quizzes page.  I then created a quiz and went back to my initial pages tab in my browser. After collapsing and opening the \u201cquizzes\u201d tab in the sidebar, I was able to select the Quiz 1 I had just created and link it into the page.   Please note that this feature is only available if there is none of a particular link type in the entire course. If you\u2019re building a page in a course and want to link an uncreated assignment into the page while other assignments exist in the course, you won\u2019t have this kind of shortcut. You\u2019d have to manually open the Assignments page, create the assignment, return to your page \u2013 and then save and reopen the page to add in that link.   Changing page titles automatically updates links   While all of these updates are great, this is the update I\u2019m most excited for. On September 16, Canvas will automatically update all links in a course when a page title is changed.   Previously, if you updated the name of a page, you\u2019d then have to go to every place you had linked it in a course to update the URL so it would continue to work. Now, Canvas takes care of updating that URL for you, redirecting from the old URL to the new. However, Canvas does not update the text of the link, so if that needs to be changed, you would still need to go to each place it is linked and update that.  Want to never miss a post? Subscribe here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7,5],"tags":[34,65,51],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canvas","category-educational-tools","category-teaching-learning","tag-canvas-update","tag-link-text","tag-pages"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.cedarville.edu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}