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Cidi Labs Design Tools Release Notes

October 2, 2020

Overview

This month's release has a couple of fun new features as well as some other improvements thrown in along the way. Most notable is the introduction of the Key Action Items tool.

New Features

Key Action Items

The Key Action Items tool provides a way to add instructions to Canvas content that are only visible when working in the rich content editor.

example of instructions in the editor

Users editing the content will see a button in the bottom right corner of the page that will open a pop-up that will walk them through the edits.

Key Action Items Button

Key Action Items Checklist

Visit the Create Key Action Item Instructions in the Editor page in the user guide to learn more about this tool.

Course Content Links

A pop-up to help you create links to existing course content was introduced back in March to help when you are working with existing links. This release includes a new Course Content Links tool in the Create/Edit Content section to grant access to this functionality for creating new links as well.

course content links tool

Course content links popup

Duplicate Content Blocks

The Add/Rearrange Content Blocks tool now has the ability to duplicate an existing block.

Duplicate content blocks interface

Caution: If the content inside requires unique IDs to work (outside of those added by the Design Tools sidebar), you will need to adjust those manually.

Text Area Hidden Gem

A new Hidden Gem allows you to insert a placeholder paragraph into the rich content editor that will be replaced by a text area when the saved content is viewed.

Text Area Placeholder

Updated or Modified Features

Language Accents - Hawaiian

Hawaiin accent characters are now available in the Language Accents tool.

Hawaiian accent characters

If you have other languages you would like to see in this tool, send us an email at support@cidilabs.com.

Syllabus Template Blocks

When editing a syllabus template in a Primary or Extended Customizations course, the Add Content Blocks pop-up will populate with the Syllabus Block Templates instead of the template blocks that would normally load for a page.

Enhanced Module Builder Content Duplication Waiting for Canvas

The Module Builder has been updated to use the same method Canvas uses to duplicate pages, assignments, and discussions accounting for all settings including grading rubrics and LTI assignments.

This enhancement includes API calls that are not currently available in the scoped credential list in Canvas. We have requested those additional API endpoints and will add this functionality when they become available in Canvas.

Bug Fixes

Sidebar Tweak for Canvas RCE Table Dropdown

A recent Canvas change for the new rich content editor toolbar resulted in the table settings dropdowns from the Canvas toolbar becoming smushed up against the Design Tools sidebar. The code has been updated to allow that dropdown to open on top of the Design Tools sidebar.

Î Character in Page Title

Some code has been added to remove the accent character from the content title that can result when using the Alt+Shift+D keyboard shortcut before Canvas loaded the custom JavaScript.

Module Builder - & in Names

The Module Builder has been updated to account for special characters like the & symbol in the titles for new content.

Module Builder - Multiple Word Custom Prefix

The module name input has been updated to account for custom prefixes of more than one word when working with existing modules in the Module Builder.

Module Builder Hangup on External LTI Assignments Waiting for Canvas

Resolved an issue where the Module Builder would hang up when trying to copy external LTI assignments.

The resolution for this feature includes API calls that are not currently available in the scoped credential list in Canvas. We have requested those additional API endpoints and will add this functionality when they become available in Canvas.