Look and feel customization options

[Arti Sharma]

I am looking for ideas for customizing and extending the out of box look and feel of Canvas courses. Does anyone here have tips or anything to share?

Thanks,
Arti

[Graham Ballantyne]

Canvas supports custom CSS and JavaScript includes. http://guides.instructure.com/m/4214/l/41896-how-do-i-add-custom-javascript-and-css-files-to-my-account. 

When making customizations, keep in mind that Instructure has a new look and feel currently hidden behind a feature flag; you will want to test your customizations with both UIs.

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[Becky Kinney]

Used to be you could use different styles in different sub-accounts, which is very useful when different departments have their own needs and preferences. I'm not seeing that in the new UI. I see where I can upload one stylesheet and on js file to my global account, but when I navigate to a sub-account, the theme editor button disappears. Please tell me there is still a way to upload sub-account specific files. Used to be you could set a flag in the parent account, allowing sub-accounts to add their own custom sheets. Can I still do that? If not, what do you suggest I do about my existing sub-account modifications?

Becky Kinney

Academic Technology Services

Project Blog

[Cody Cutrer]

Becky,

That functionality is being built for the new Theme Editor as we type.

Cody Cutrer

Software Engineer

Instructure

[Becky Kinney]

Awesome. Thanks for getting back to me.

Becky Kinney

Academic Technology Services

Project Blog

[Olav Bringedal]

Hi 

In the new interface the ability to link to js and css files is missing AFAIK. Will there be a way to do this? To manually upload css and js files is quite cumbersome and as we use the open source version; we have four environments that needs to be coherent. 

Olav Bringedal 

University of Bergen 

[Cody Cutrer]

Olav,

In the new UI you can only upload CSS/JS, but not link to existing files (https://www.dropbox.com/s/soe5p106c9d3dtf/Screenshot%202015-10-13%2010.25.13.png?dl=0). This is quite deliberate, as for many people it was difficult to find a place to host their CSS files, and it also means that the performance of your Canvas instance is no longer dependent on 3rd party hosting.

Cody Cutrer

Software Engineer

Instructure