Setting a Navbar for All New Courses While Keeping the Current Navbar for Old Courses
Some notes:
1. We import the courses through IPSIS using our Colleague Integration. We see there is a setting for copying content from an existing org unit. We thought we could use this to set up a "Master Course" system in Brightspace. Have the course we are copying have the navbar we want, then run a bulk job in ELP, which would set all of the courses to the correct navbar. However, there doesn't seem to be a way we found to specify a course to copy. Are we missing something?
2. We tried using "Copy Course Components" on our test environment. This is not an ideal solution, but it would be good as establishing a baseline and seeing if copying the course components copied the navbar over. This did work, but is there a way to do this on a mass scale (like a semester by semester basis)? I know about the bulk configuration tool, but would that work with our Ellucian integration? And would we have to list all of the courses that we would like to copy in the CSV file?
3. While we can get the navbar to appear as an option for instructors, we would like it so that it is automatically set to this navbar. We can provide the navbar to all of the fall courses, but the trick would be to have it auto selected, and changed if they wanted.
Answers
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Hi Daniel.E,
From what you have described the Course Branding tool may deliver you the outcome you have described. See the following Community resource for additional information
If you are interested in using this tool best to test in your institutions test/development environment. If is not available please connect with you institutions D2L Customer Success Manager or request the tool be enabled by opening a case with the D2L Support Team.
Also note: when creating new courses they will automatically be created with the default navbar and default homepage (unless you have some other configuration in place defining which should be used). What you can do is change the homepage and navbar defaults to the to the ones you want to use for the Spring delivery period. The existing course offering navbars and homepages set in existing course offerings will not change. See &
The exception to this is if you use the Force Homepage functionality in which the default homepage will override the homepages of all child org units of this organization i.e. override the existing page set to the one you are selecting to enforce - I don't think you will want to do this. See
As already mentioned please test any configuration changes in your test/development environment before making changes to your production environment.
Hope this helps!
