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title: "A Few Thoughts About... Using Grav Course Hub Inside or Outside of an LMS"
date: 07/17/2019
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_Recently I tweeted some examples of using Grav Course Hub inside and outside of the Canvas LMS, and I thought I would share them here:_

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">More progress in providing a choice to access course materials either inside and outside of an LMS. For students who do not have other courses on the university LMS they can choose to visit the multi-device friendly <a href="https://twitter.com/getgrav?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@getgrav</a> Open Course Hub (which links to needed LMS elements).👇 <a href="https://t.co/y0fGM6G6x3">pic.twitter.com/y0fGM6G6x3</a></p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1150819263529144320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">However, for students with one or more other courses on the university LMS (in this case <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CanvasLMS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CanvasLMS</a>) they can choose to visit the Canvas course site, where all the materials from the Open Course Hub are seamlessly embedded and brought to where they spend more of their time.👇 <a href="https://t.co/vSY842yfv2">pic.twitter.com/vSY842yfv2</a></p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1150819482782187520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">How will students respond to this approach? I hope to find out this September, and then based on their input further improve their online course experience (and share here of course)🚀</p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1150819657684619264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Oh, and here is the current prototype of the planned <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SFU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SFU</a> CMPT-363 Open Course Hub:<a href="https://t.co/RidBgwfabd">https://t.co/RidBgwfabd</a></p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1150820225782181888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And here is the partner Canvas course site, within embedded Open Course Hub materials:<a href="https://t.co/gV4QAvLBdc">https://t.co/gV4QAvLBdc</a></p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1150820382405881856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Let&#39;s say you use <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CanvasLMS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CanvasLMS</a> but want more freedom with content displayed within Modules. With <a href="https://twitter.com/getgrav?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@getgrav</a> Open Course Hub you can choose to embed the content of any page along, with several options to make embedding truly seamless. For example, here is an example Course Hub page👇 <a href="https://t.co/ixEvtjZlTu">pic.twitter.com/ixEvtjZlTu</a></p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1151531318422847488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Using the External URL feature in Canvas, you can enter the URL of a Grav Course Hub page, along with several URL parameters. These parameters provide options for displaying the page, for example &#39;embedded:true&#39; and &#39;hideheaderimage:true&#39; to optimize page display within Canvas👇 <a href="https://t.co/SA8jnuwJP7">pic.twitter.com/SA8jnuwJP7</a></p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1151532516274135040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And remember, you can also choose to use the Git Sync Plugin to provide automatic two-way sync of your embedded Grav Course Hub content within <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CanvasLMS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CanvasLMS</a> to an open Git repository (i.e. GitHub, GitLab, Gitea etc) to support the 5Rs of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OER?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OER</a> and collaboration with version control👇 <a href="https://t.co/ZiNRaLQ874">pic.twitter.com/ZiNRaLQ874</a></p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1151535344304582656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It&#39;s a good time to mention the Grav Open Course Hub project is intended for tech-savvy educators🚀<br>✓ Text editor usage (e.g. Atom)<br>✓ Markdown or HTML basics<br>✓ Understanding folder hierarchies <br>✓ Web server access<br>✓ GitHub/Lab basics<br>✓ GitHub Desktop App (if not using Atom)</p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1151541917114458112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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