As far as we can see, there is no built-in method to add and update user avatar photos in Canvas. Many organisations probably allow students to add their own avatars, but it's arguably better to have school photos in Canvas because teachers find them more useful to help with identifying students etc. This blog post describes a method which I have implemented to add all student and staff photos to Canvas, and to maintain them so that they revert to the 'official' photo if they are changed. Full code is available on GitHub.  ... View more

Hi! I'm Noah, a student at the Karel de Grote Hogeschool in Antwerp who's studying NxTmedia Technology Web Development. Since the COVID-19 virus changed the way of teaching and following lectures we've been trying to find a solution for the inactivity of students and for centralization of some information. Aftera long time of brainstorming we finnally found a "solution" that should make it possible for students an their teachers to get more attention for announcements that are being published on canvas. In our school we use discord as a full time replacement of normal tutoring. since we had to do everything online to minimize the contact. Over a short period of time more and more students of were getting used to using discord as a teaching platform. Most of the students already knew Discord as a voice communication platform for gaming. Mostly they were online here instead of Canvas. What we've created is a bot that makes it possible to create watchlists in text channels that announce new incoming announcements of the courses that are being watched. This made it possible to reach our students much faster and created a much bigger chance for you that the students would read it. we've just released the first version of our Discord bot and we would like some opinions! As honest as possible 😉 There is a more detailed explanation on our public GitHub repository for the ones who're interested! Also we've open-sourced the whole project just to support the community and help the ones who need it! The link of our Open-source Discord Bot https://github.com/NxT-Media-Technology/Canvas-Student-Announcement-Discord-Bot ... View more

Hello, everybody, Introduction: My school requires us teachers to send out emails to parents and fill out a Google form when a student doesn’t turn in their homework. Naturally, I’ve been using Python to stream line this process to save myself time. What I’ve been doing for the past year is downloading the grade book from Canvas manually and then importing the file in Python and then having Python send emails to parents and fill out the additional documentation for students if they have received a zero for an assignment. This really helps cutting down the time; however, I want to streamline the process even further.   What I want to be able to do: in the long run I really want to be able to use the Python canvasapi module to find what student hasn’t submitted a certain assignment that I enter in the program just through the api (so that I don’t have to download and read the grade book file). ... View more

Hi, I'm developing an external application that I would like to integrate with Canvas API. I have a login form, where I want users to log in via their email and password (The same credentials they use for logging into Canvas). I looked at the API and the OAuth endpoints but couldn't find how to log in with email/password. Can someone please help me out with that? ... View more