Customize Canvaslms Open Source

[Nick Kokkos]

Hi,
I know through the documentation that you can customize your opensource installation by linking an overrides.css or javascript file in the settings
of the account.

My question is whether you can customize further.

For example, if you click on the account you get a list of the courses that have been created.

Under each course name, some information appears, eg, no of students or no of teachers or a link like "Settings" pointing to the
course's settings. I would like to make that information look larger (change font size).

Has anyone been able to do more theme customization than just branding as it appears here: http://guides.instructure.com/m/4214/l/41896-how-do-i-brand-my-canvas-instance ?

Thank you.

[Graham Ballantyne]

Things like changing the font size can be done through a local CSS include. You would need to be fairly specific with your selectors as the CSS gets loaded on every page. You can't target a specific page through CSS without doing some JavaScript shenanigans to conditionally load styles. 

At SFU, we've customize the UI through a combination of CSS & JS includes, and modifying the underlying Rails views. The latter is a last resort; we try to avoid core mods because it means having to maintain  the change when we do upgrades (which we do every three weeks). 

You can see our CSS and JS mods at https://github.com/sfu/canvas-lms/tree/sfu-develop/public/sfu

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Graham Ballantyne 

IT Services

Simon Fraser University 

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[Nick Kokkos]

Thank you Graham,

this is exactly what I was looking for.

By the way, the in house gems you have created for SFU provide a good pointer for somone who wants to write plugins for canvas.

Canvas lms plugins are basically rails plugins, but unfortunately, there is not a lot of documentation from Instructure (such as specific hooks and so on)