Add User Details and Contact Information with DesignPLUS
How to add and style user details blocks for teachers, TAs, and course designers. Users can quickly add contact information for students to reference.
Add User Details
With the User Details tool, you can add or edit teacher and teaching assistant information. The tool pulls the avatar, name, and email from Canvas. Once you’ve added your User Details, you can then use the Edit Current Element panel to add, arrange, or delete your content.
To add a new User Details entry:
Navigate to the page you want to add your User Details
Click Edit
Launch DesignPLUS by clicking on the Rocket Ship icon in the top-right corner
Users should have updated the Legacy Design Tools sidebar to the new DesignPLUS sidebar.
Select the Add New Elements tab if not already selected
DesignPLUS may have opened up this tab by default. If that is the case, leave it as is. Clicking it while it is activated will navigate you away to the Current Element tab.
Place your cursor in the editor where you want the details to go
Select User Details from the Course Information panel
You can also search for a Course Information or, if used recently, it may also appear in the Recently Used Tools tab. This will add a placeholder in the Rich Content Editor (RCE).
Use the controls in the Content section to populate the image and user details.
- Role: select a user role or filter results in the Users section.
- Refresh: update the Users list with most recent information.
- Users: choose a user to display.
- Image: pull an image from the user's Canvas account.
- Details: edit the user's details.
- Icon Picker: select a desired icon for each User Detail section.
- Include/Exclude: use the checkboxes to decide which details are included or excluded in the editor.
Adjust the card style by using the tools in the Style section
Some of the elements that you can edit in this panel include the card style, color, alignment, and icon visibility.
Click Save
If you are adding the User Details to the Syllabus page, click Update Syllabus.
Edit User Details
Once you have placed User Details into your Canvas page, you can edit it through the DesignPLUS sidebar by doing the following:
Place your cursor within the User Details
Select the Edit Current Element tab if not already selected
Choose the User Details option as the active tool
Edit the text of the user details in the Content panel
Adjust the card style by using the tools in the Style section
Some of the elements that you can edit in this panel include the card style, color, alignment, and icon visibility.
Remove User Details
If you would like to remove the User Details on a page, do the following:
Place your cursor within the User Details
Select the Edit Current Element tab if not already selected
Choose the User Details option as the active tool
Click Delete User Details (the trashcan icon) in the Action Toolbar
