Retrieving Faculty Journal Entries for a student

[skeesler]

What API access exists that would allow me to get faculty journal entries for the logged in user?

From the API docs, I thought it would be a conversation for either the faculty user who made the entry or the student for whom it was entered. Neither seem to retrieve the faculty journal entries.

I'm doing something like this

canvas = Canvas(cfg.TEST_API_URL, cfg.TEST_API_KEY) # from canvas_conf.py
acc = canvas.get_account(our_account) # our parent account
u = canvas.get_user(some_user_id)
print(u.id, u.name)
convs = canvas.get_conversations(as_user_id=u.id)
for cs in convs:
   print(u.id, u.name, c.subject)
   c = canvas.get_conversation(cs.id, as_user_id=u.id)
   print(u.id, u.name, cs.subject, c.messages) # that should be an array of messages, including the faculty journal entries

[melodyc_lam]

@skeesler I'm not 100% sure but there seems to be a "custom user data" endpoint located here: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/all_resources.html#method.custom_data.get_data

The data may be there.

Unfortunately my instance doesn't have Faculty Journal entries so I can't confirm. In addition, it looks like you're using the CanvasAPI Python wrapper...which doesn't have a method for getting this custom data (as far as I know). You may have to use a HTTP library to make the calls yourself.