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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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!

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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)

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/...

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...

I'm a teacher, and I've been playing with the api in a few other sheets that I've found. It's got me wondering if I could use a google sheet with a series of my gradebooks brought from other sheets, and have it update the grades in canvas.

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I have a suggestion for a couple new features that I know i would use frequently. I believe other students would as well. It is efficient and time saving, also would help navigate us through what we have completed over our time in school, our past an...

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...

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 ...

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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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Data Access Platform CLI & Client Library is now GA

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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/

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

If you are a developer who used oEmbed with LTI content embedded into the Canvas Rich Content Editor you will want to review this.

Data is a powerful tool that has the potential to transform the way we offer education to students. Over the past five years, the Canvas data sharing product has been very important to our users and institutions.

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...

Recently IMS Global Learning Consortium announced an unprecedented number of education platforms who have been identified as early adopters of LTI Advantage and have run through early certification testing. The next day Instructure issued a statement...

Since its inception, Canvas has always been open and transparent about our business and our features. We believe in being open. We believe in allowing you to use Canvas the way you want to use Canvas. And branding is one component that we’ve been wor...