Navigation for CA's via Quick Bar

[miloberry]

Currently, the navigation to the grades and assignments sections in the quick bar do not navigate correctly if you have elevated privileges. Grades shows a student's view rather than input for grades while the assignments tab shows that access is not allowed

[MattGalan]

Currently the URLs for the quickbar are populated based on a template:

<a href="https://mycourses.rit.edu/d2l/le/content/${c.id}/Home">
  Content
</a>
<a href="https://mycourses.rit.edu/d2l/lms/dropbox/user/folders_list.d2l?ou=${c.id}&isprv=0">
  Assignments
</a>
<a href="https://mycourses.rit.edu/d2l/lms/quizzing/user/quizzes_list.d2l?ou=${c.id}">
  Quizzes
</a>
<a href="https://mycourses.rit.edu/d2l/lms/grades/my_grades/main.d2l?ou=${c.id}">
  Grades
</a>

from quickbar.js#L67-L78

Do the URLs for a CA's grades and assignments pages look similar? Also, do you know if there's any way for the extension to determine if you're a CA? Maybe there's some indicator on the course page we could programmatically search for.

[miloberry]

The grades url is https://mycourses.rit.edu/d2l/lms/grades/admin/enter/user_list_view.d2l?ou=858294 and assignments is https://mycourses.rit.edu/d2l/lms/dropbox/admin/folders_manage.d2l?ou=858294 I know there are places on the course home page that you can see the role but will the quick bar be able to access this? It might slow down the loading of the page if it has to check all the pinned courses for CA roles

[MattGalan]

my concern is about the ou query param. I need to do some research to see what that actually is.

In my experience, the ou param refers to the 6 digit ID that each class has. In the code snippet above you can see it being populated by the template.

I know there are places on the course home page that you can see the role but will the quick bar be able to access this? It might slow down the loading of the page if it has to check all the pinned courses for CA roles

Well, we only have to determine whether you're a CA for a given class once - when you first add it to the quick bar. After that, we can store it as a boolean alongside the other quick bar data.

Looking for an HTML element via jQuery is fast and easy. Currently, however, you don't have to be on a course's home page to add it to the quick bar (meaning you can add it from the assignments page, content page, etc.).

If there are pages where it's not possible to tell if you're a CA, we can either restrict it so you can only add to the quick bar from a course home page, or we can load and scrape the course home page behind the scenes (which is trickier and slower, but will still allow you to add to the quick bar from anywhere).

[miloberry]

I think restricting it to only being added on the home page would be the easiest but would be more frustrating for users. I can play around with scraping the course home page behind the scenes but if it's super slow or more trouble than it's worth it might be best to restrict to only the course home page