Course Menu Updates as of 9/21/2019

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A New Look is Coming to Course Menus in Canvas!

Before and after update views :

  • Before - the inactive links displayed are grayed out (1).   
  • After - the inactive links are displayed in the account’s primary color (2). The active link is displayed in black and includes a vertical line to the left  (3).  Default links that are not visible to students display the hidden visibility icon (4).

 

Picture of before and after

 

 

The hover state

  • Link includes an underline by default.  When selected, the link displays a focus state with a border (5).

Picture of hover state

 

Tools are not visible to a student in one of two cases:

  1. Item contains no content i.e.  no Announcements or Discussions have not been created.
  2. Item is hidden via the Navigation tab in Course Settings (6).  Tooltip content (7) clarifies the hidden state appropriately.

Picture of when pages are not visible

 

 

Light bulb image This change helps improve accessibility using better contrast ratios.  Functionality remains the same!