We take a teacher-centric approach rather than a course-centric approach. I'd rather have a hard-coded menu (html block or custom menu in the theme settings) linking to our 'teacher areas'. You see, each teacher has one course which is their main area for sharing information and resources, which then links to actual subject courses if they really do need a whole course set-up for specific classes. Most don't though - they manage to squeeze all their resources into their one area.
So if the students are looking for information, they tend not to go straight to a subject course first - they go to their teacher's area.
I found the documentation for the Boost theme about preset files. So I am wondering if I can hide the 'draw navigation' completely with some CSS (actually, I might be able to do that in the 'additional html' feature too, without messing about with presets). Then I could put my hard-coded menus on the right hand side.
As a side note - I cannot upload themes to the server, which Is why I'm not just finding a more suitable theme.