Admin Tweaks Extension

[smathews]

Does anyone use an admin chrome extension or browser extension to check the history of SIS imports beyond the latest one? I used to have an extension called "Admin Tweaks," but it seems to be broken or not updated. 

[dbrace · Accepted solution]

Hi @smathews,

I use the Chrome extension "Canvas LMS Mods (Basic)", made by @Code-with-Ski / @JamesSekcienski.

It is located at Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) - Chrome Web Store, with other information available at  Creating a Chrome Extension to Use with Canvas LMS... - Instructure Community - 532935  and https://code-with-ski.github.io/Canvas-LMS_Mods-Website.

I have the extension configured so that it does not load automatically and it is set to "On Click".

-Doug

[mzimmerman]

I have not used the extension in question, but you can view the history of SIS imports by simply navigating to the SIS Imports page and then appending an "s" to the URL, i.e. "https://<my_server/accounts/1/sis_importS"...

What you get back is in JSON format, but if you have a JSON parser plugin for your browser, it's quite easy to review the previous SIS imports, and even to grab copies of logs and SIS import feed files...

(This may be one of those tricks that's known to most admins, but I thought I'd pass it along just in case you weren't familiar with it...)

[dbrace]

Thanks for referring that, @mzimmerman.

It is something that I regularly do but I also use the extension shared as well because it allows you to search by date range and import status

https://code-with-ski.github.io/Canvas-LMS_Mods-Website/images/feature-screenshots/admin-sis-import-...

When going by the URL, I use https://webextension.org/listing/json-beautifier.html to make it easier to see and to also download (archive) as a JSON file.

-Doug