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DavidRiddle · 2025-11-03

Greeting all,I’m looking for a bit of help.I need to pull a specific assignment from multiple courses for program assessment purposes. For example, I’d like to extract Quiz 1 submissions from all ENG-101 courses in Spring 2025. I only need the submis...

nbpenn · 2025-10-30

Per the User API docs: "Array of additional information to include on the user record. “locale”, “avatar_url”, “permissions”, “email”, and “effective_locale” will always be returned" However, the response does not include the email field, even with u...

ImreKinnunen_1 · 2025-10-29

I ran into a new issue today, which I've never encountered when working my external tool for Canvas When I have submission type -> external tool URL saved in the assignment settings and I open my external tool configuration again by Find -> click my ...

PhillipJacobs · 2025-10-29

Hello!I am working on a process to pull messages sent through the Canvas Inbox and the conversations APIs only work in the self-scope.The documentation is very clear on how to use masquerading (act-as) with the APIs: https://developerdocs.instructure...

Justin_Reynolds · 2025-10-24

Just wondering what other schools are doing to allow others to post an announcement automatically when they put the same announcement into LiveSafe or other emergency notification system. The suggestion was RSS (maybe because that's what LiveSafe us...

RPAProd · 2025-10-23

Hi All, We're looking to get a API endpoint where in we can get assessments weightage or percentage of the particular course by passing through the course id . Attaching a screenshot for reference on what column of data I'm referring to. Please do ...

NitinN · 2025-10-22

I am exploring the APIs to fetch Total score for every Module in a Course for all the Students. Please refer the attached screen print. I was able to get the scores for each assignment/quizzes using /submissions API and the final score for the whole ...

nbpenn · 2025-10-15

Hi - not sure if this forum deals with bug reports, if not please let me know where to file this (or, maybe it's not a bug?) When I retrieve Courses from an Account, I would assume that the response would only contain Courses with the same Account Id...

SarahSeibold · 2025-10-14

I am attempting to programmatically access the LTI usage data presented in the Canvas Apps Dashboard (total launches, unique users, subaccounts, courses over time). Could anyone advise on the best method to replicate this information by using the Can...

pray4 · 2025-10-14

We have a request from our Education Department to prevent teachers at one of our campuses from being able to leverage the "EX" (excused) grade in the gradebook due to some recurring issues. I know there are ways to hide (not prevent) the elements in...

SethBattis · 2025-10-14

I'm wrestling with how Canvas classifies courses as "available" to different audiences. My measure of availability is that the course shows up in the list of courses returned by a call to: GET https://instance.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/state=ava...

jamday · 2025-10-13

Our school uses the Observer functionality far past the usual parent/student use case. We have partner schools where the "managers" of the schools are given Observer Role to view their students and monitor their progress etc. Sometimes the list can b...

rexj · 2025-10-09

Hi All, I have been running the "Students with a Current Course Score < 60" report (Admin >Admin Analytics > Students) for our student success department. The report includes the number of courses a student has with a grade <60, but not the specific ...

PravinPrajapati · 2025-10-09

namespace = "AI_For_All"; dataKey = "course_1"; $.ajax({ url: `/api/v1/users/self/custom_data/${dataKey}`, type: "PUT", data: { ns: namespace, data: JSON.stringify(AI_for_ALL), }, success: function (response) { co...

AndréDalmolen · 2025-10-08

As a developer I want to use the API to get information about a course so we can administrate our courses. We have some courses where students can enroll with the "hidden link" (self enrollment). But i can't manage to get the self_enrollment_code fro...

MatthewKerr · 2025-10-07

Our institution wants to check to ensure instructors are logging in to their Online Learning courses and not just letting the course run it self. I've been using python and the canvasapi library for most of the reports we've been making. For this one...

saustin · 2025-10-06

Good afternoon, are there any significant differences in the impact to concluding a course using: PUT course[event] conclude versus DELETE { "conclude": "true" } [References below] https://developerdocs.instructure.com/services/canvas/resources/cours...

tim_oconnor · 2025-10-02

I'm developing an LTI 1.3 tool integrated with Canvas and need to programmatically determine which group(s) a student belongs to when they launch the tool. I've tried several approaches without success: What I've tried: Custom variable substitutions ...

JosephWright234 · 2025-09-26

Problem:Looking for help with Canvas LMS API integration for automated grade synchronization from our external assessment platform. We're using the Submissions API to post grades, but getting inconsistent results - some scores update correctly while ...

AHauerwas · 2025-09-25

We frequently run into a situation where our SIS data is unable to remove a student from a course. This happens because we allow teachers the ability to create sections within courses. To remove a student from a course they must deleted from every s...

MiguelMoran2 · 2025-09-24

I've successfully added the LTI link to a page using the editor location, set as a deep link.The LTI link title displays as a link on a blank page.When I click the link, it loads exactly as I want.How can I make this "frame" display the content witho...

anHiep · 2025-09-24

Hello everyone, I've set up my own canvas lms. But it turns out that my mp3 files' status are always "Your media has been uploaded and will appear here after processing."Also I know that to fix that problem, I need to install Kaltura server. But the ...

NicL · 2025-09-22

Is there a way to customize the format and structure of the exported markbook?I would only like to include the student ID and final grade in the exported file.

nbpenn · 2025-09-22

Hi - is there a way to get all Courses of an EnrollmentTerm through the api, either through REST or GraphQL? In the GraphQL ui, for `allCourses` - there doesn't seem to be a way to apply a filter, something like: ```query CoursesByTermQuery { allC...

nbpenn · 2025-09-19

The Course API has a handy [include] parameter that you can use to pass in additional properties you wish to have returned on the Course object: banner_image, course_image, etc. Is there a way to pass include parameters to the Search API, so that wh...

JavierHex · 2025-09-18

Hi ! I have a LTI 1.3 tool integrated with Canvas and I’ve noticed that a couple of customers comes with the role: http://purl.imsglobal.org/vocab/lis/v2/system/person#None My questions are: Under what conditions does Canvas assign or return th...

SAHarvey1 · 2025-09-17

In the past couple of weeks we have started to get this error from Canvas when we are trying to use dynamic registration."Unauthorized client - Client does not have access to the specified Canvas account"I'm getting this error when using a Developer ...

glparker · 2025-09-16

I have a couple users that I want to get a record of all Access Tokens they have or ever had. I do not see a 'list all' API endpoint for Access Tokens. https://developerdocs.instructure.com/services/canvas/resources/access_tokens I can get details on...

dheup · 2025-09-12

Hello, I was looking through the Modules API (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/modules.html), but couldn't find a way to assign modules to sections in bulk. I have 5 courses, each with over 300 modules that I need to assign to 2 out of 6 diffe...

elainew · 2025-09-11

Looking for an API I can run that will show the last date/time that an instructure synced their grades to our SIS. Does anyone have something like this?

rguss · 2025-09-16

I have created a GH repo that will programmatically generate a Postman collection based upon the latest Canvas API docs

JamesSekcienski · 2025-08-29

This is a user script that provides course readiness and teacher activity reminders based on the configured expectations. Expectations that can be configured include checks for the Syllabus, published state of the course, course dates, assignment due...

JamesSekcienski · 2025-02-21

This is a user script that allows teachers to bulk copy announcements from one of their courses to another course(s). This process will create the announcements as the user using the script so the copied announcements will also show them as the auth...

Code-with-Ski · 2024-11-30

These user scripts will add in an additional user identifier, such as their email address, in places that only show their name to help differentiate users. This is especially useful for classes where students have the same name.

jerry_nguyen · 2024-10-06

A Chrome Extension to enhance teacher To Do list with filter, search and sorting functionality.

Code-with-Ski · 2024-10-03

This is a user script to automatically click the expand threads button when going to a discussion board. It will also click the expand threads button when going to a new page of replies.

Code-with-Ski · 2024-09-13

This user script provides the ability to bulk update the threaded reply setting of discussions in courses.

Apurba_N · 2024-09-06

A Python admin tool for rendering subaccount hierarchy graphs for Canvas.

Code-with-Ski · 2024-08-25

This is a user script to allow admins to bulk publish courses from the admin account course search page.

Code-with-Ski · 2024-08-24

I have developed a user script that can be used to bulk update enrollment states in a course.

maguire · 2024-08-13

Many teachers set the course locale (which sets the language assumed for the course content); unfortunately, this also changes the user's GUI - so all of the menus are now in the language of the course locale. This is undesirable from many points of ...

Code-with-Ski · 2024-08-12

A new Simple Search feature has been added to the Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) browser extension. This allows a user to search for content within a course or across their enrolled courses.

chriscas · 2024-07-31

Hi All, There have been a few posts in the Canvas LMS area asking about options for automatically deleting courses after and defined amount of time... few years ago, I built this functionality into a python script that my institution runs on a dail...

Adeel-Raza · 2024-07-07

This is a follow-up of my last post on the community forum here,https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/Self-host-amp-Install-Canvas-LMS-on-your-own-server/td-p/575826Following the production guide created by Instructure for Canvas...

chriscas · 2024-06-27

Are you going to be at InstructureCon 2024? Do you have interest in meeting some fellow developer-type people in-person? We have arranged 2 different opportunities to connect this year!

agschmid · 2024-05-29

Using CD2, it is possible to find out who made an anonymous post and who has read the post.

JamesSekcienski · 2024-05-28

We are using the following code to hide the anonymous discussion options at this time. We will re-evaluate making this available in the future, but are not ready to support this functionality at this time since the identity of the student is also hi...

chriscas · 2024-03-01

I am creating this blog as an area where we can share links to code repositories and projects with each other, as we discussed in the developers meetup yesterday. If you have a project website, GitHub, etc that others might find useful, please share...

agschmid · 2024-02-20

Years ago I used the API to find which LTI tools were used in a course, then switched to CD1 and now I'm using CD2. I built a Tableau report with several filters, including: Type of course: sis, non-sis or allState of the course: published, unpublis...

BenjaminSelby · 2024-02-19

I created a blog post in 2020 explaining how to bulk load and sync Canvas Avatar images using Powershell. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/How-to-bulk-load-and-update-avatar-profile-pictures-with/ba-p/410101 Since then, I've...

knowbd · 2023-12-10

I am working to have an AI LLM (ChatGPT 3.5 or better) generate QTI 2.1 XML that I can copy-paste into text files then ZIP and upload to Canvas to create Item Banks in New Quizzes.I have been successful in getting ChatGPT to generate a set of test qu...

jerry_nguyen · 2023-10-26

Sit back, relax, and let n8n do (most of) the tedious admin tasks for you. N8N is an open-source workflow automation tool that empowers you to harness the capabilities of Canvas backend systems, including Canvas API, Canvas Data, and Live Data, to st...

tin900 · 2023-10-24

Hello, Canvas Community!I'm thrilled to announce the R package called "vvcanvas". This package provides a convenient interface to interact with the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) API, enabling users to authenticate, retrieve course informati...

Code-with-Ski · 2023-09-27

Learn about some of the new features that I built and released in v3.0.0 of the Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) Chrome extension to provide course level reports primarily about course content. The code for the extension is open-source if you would like to v...

Code-with-Ski · 2023-09-27

Learn about some of the new features that I built and released in v3.0.0 of the Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) Chrome extension to enhance the experience of creating/editing rubrics. The code for the extension is open-source if you would like to view and/o...

hhchiang · 2023-03-22

Hi all, I've deployed an LTI 1.3 tool as a Discussion Topic Menu, and when I click the menu item in my course, I get back a json result, but I can't find the Discussion Topic ID in the json results. Does anyone else have experience working with LTI...

Code-with-Ski · 2023-03-07

I recently updated my Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) Chrome extension to provide some new enhancements to the course search and admin flyout menu inspired by ideas and requests I have seen from other users in the community.

elena18 · 2023-03-07

It's few months that I don't access the Canvas app installed on OVH VPS server. I tried now and it shows the directory of files, but not the login interface. Nothings has been changed since the last time I use it (december 2022)

RobbieWatling · 2023-03-03

Hi all,I would like to attach a zip file to all of my students submissions. I have been able to upload the file via the Cavnas API. However, I cannot seem to get the file to attach a student's submission. Acccording to https://canvas.instructure.com/...

SteveBarnes · 2023-02-01

I need an access token to grab a list of line items during the LTI1.3 workflow. I am currently receiving an unsupported grant type error.I have seen claims that Canvas does not support this flow to issue access tokens for machine to machine API use.L...

sgergely · 2025-10-22

At Instructure, we're constantly working to enhance the tools you rely on every day. As part of that commitment, we’re excited to announce a significant upgrade to the core infrastructure powering our DAP Query API / CD2. This upgrade will require a ...

AlexisNast · 2025-10-16

You may have noticed that we are updating how we handle User Access Tokens. These changes have been made across the September and October deploys. I wanted to walk through all of these changes together and how they will improve institutions’ security...

sgergely · 2025-10-10

Following our recent announcement about the changes to the Canvas Page Views feature, we are excited to share a major update specifically for our developer community and partners: The new PageView History API is now available in Beta! This new asynch...

sgergely · 2025-09-12

We're rolling out some important updates to how Page Views are handled in Canvas, affecting both the user interface and our public APIs. These changes are designed to improve performance, accessibility, and data management, while also changing how pa...

sgergely · 2025-07-02

We’re excited to release the data access platform (DAP) command line interface (CLI) referred to as DAP CLI 2.0. For developers and data engineers that access data from Canvas Data, this is a major version update that introduces new functionality, i...

sgergely · 2025-06-03

We're excited to announce the upcoming release of a new column, non_collaborative, in the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) Query API's groups and group_categories tables at 2025-06-12. This column helps clearly distinguish between standard collaborative groups an...

sgergely · 2025-03-19

We’re excited to announce an update to the context_external_tools table in the Canvas namespace of the DAP Query API. On 31st of March in 2025, we will be adding a new column: unified_tool_id: A unique identifier for the external tool, helping Canvas...

sgergely · 2025-03-12

We’re excited to announce the release of DAP CLI 1.4.0, which significantly boosts efficiency and ease of use by introducing multi-table operations. This release addresses a major customer pain point by allowing operations on all or selected tables w...

sgergely · 2025-01-28

We’re excited to announce updates to a new table in the Canvas namespace that will be available in your CD2/DAP Query API dataset starting February 10th. These changes enrich the dataset with additional context and expand the range of supported use c...

sgergely · 2025-01-10

We’re releasing DAP CLI version 1.3.1 today to address an issue that affected PostgreSQL users following our recent DAP Query API update. Yesterday, we introduced multiple new enum values across several tables in the DAP Query API, which unfortunatel...

sgergely · 2024-12-16

We’re excited to announce updates to multiple tables and columns in the Canvas namespace with new enumerated values (enums) that will be available in your CD2/DAP Query API dataset starting January 9th. These changes enrich the dataset with additiona...

sgergely · 2024-11-29

We are excited to announce the release of DAP CLI & Lib 1.3.0, bringing new features, enhanced functionality, and critical updates based on your feedback. This update reinforces our commitment to improving developer tools and addressing the needs of ...

ruthfoulkrod · 2024-11-21

What's next for Ideas and Themes

sgergely · 2024-11-04

Get ready to shape the future of Instructure’s data capabilities! We’re running an Instructure Data Questionnaire to gather your valuable insights for our 2025 roadmap, focusing on cloud adoption and analytics trends. Your feedback will guide our fea...

sgergely · 2024-09-13

We’re excited to introduce DAP CLI 1.2.0, featuring secure connections to MySQL and PostgreSQL, optimized memory usage for cloud environments, and improved error handling for parquet files. In addition, the CLI now logs system environment details for...

sgergely · 2024-08-14

We are committed to providing a reliable and efficient service for your data needs, and as part of this commitment, we will be performing scheduled maintenance on our CD2 API infrastructure. This maintenance is essential for ensuring continued perfor...

annalindsay · 2024-07-12

Discover how global collaboration is driving innovation and shaping the future of Canvas LMS. Dive into the highlights of our latest discovery session and see how we're committed to enhancing the educational experience for our diverse user community.

KataKeri · 2024-06-03

We will be upgrading to the latest versions of jQuery and jQuery UI. If your institution uses custom JS/CSS, we recommend checking your beta instances.

Auburn · 2024-05-30

Major web browsers are beginning to phase out support for third-party cookies, a change that may have a significant impact on the functionality of LTI tools integrated with learning management systems such as Canvas. Although this change will not dir...

IsaacMoore · 2024-05-20

Starting June 19th, 2024, all HTTP responses from Canvas will transition to full lowercase response header names to align with industry best practices. This change impacts API users, browser users, and other clients.

BobODell · 2024-03-20

Data Access Platform (DAP) CLI and Client Library v1.1.0 is now available. Version 1.1.0 is a fast follow to our GA release to address some community identified issues with a new feature enhancement to prepare us for future updates.

BobODell · 2024-02-28

Data Access Platform CLI & Client Library is now GA

jperkins · 2024-02-27

We are updating jQuery in Canvas and your custom JavaScript might break if you leverage jQuery in it

xmoffatt · 2023-06-20

Canvas is changing its LTI 1.3 OIDC Auth domain to align with security practices and to support the new LTI 1.3 Platform Storage specification - which lets LTI tools still function even when browsers disable cross-site 3rd-party cookies. LTI 1.3 tool...

TamasBalogh · 2021-09-14

We decided to implement New Quizzes Public API in GraphQL and here's the first information you need to know about and what you can expect from us regarding the documentation of the API.

EthanVizitei · 2021-08-17

Instructure has a long history of opening the systems we build to extension and enhancement. When we build products like Canvas, we want to make sure they work well for ALL our customers. After a long series of forays and experiments examining wheth...

TamasBalogh · 2021-06-10

Let's discuss New Quizzes Public API's foundation: GraphQL or REST?

karl · 2021-05-13

As I looked at my calendar this month I was reminded this May 13 (today) marks an anniversary of when LTI support was deployed to Canvas. This year will be 10 years! \o/

erinhmcmillan · 2021-02-23

If you are using Developer Keys, ensure your HTTP Redirect URIs are secure before March 3.

jpoulos · 2019-07-30

Recently, IMS Global announced the deprecation schedule of the LTI 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and 2.0 specifications. Going forward, LTI Core version 1.3 (LTI 1.3) will be the recommended specification for new integrations and any integrations wishing to upgrade...

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