A curated list of CanvasLMS Community and Open Source contributions.
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Contents
- CanvasLMS
- Canvas Admin
- Canvas Instructor
- Instructional Design
- Canvas Mobile
- Canvas Theme Editor
- Canvas API
- Canvas Data
- Canvas GraphQL
- Canvas Live Events
- Open Source LTI
- Open Source LTI Development
CanvasLMS
- Source Code
- instructure/canvas-lms The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
- Canvas LMS Github Repository Tutorial
- Instructure UI
- instructure/instructure-ui: A UI Component Library made by Instructure, Inc
- instructure.design Instructure-UI ReactJS component library and examples
- Release Notes
- Source, Hosting, and Developer Support
- Canvas Dev & Friends - Instructure Tech Blog Resources for API development, App development, and open source development
Canvas Admin
- Guides
- Adoption & Engagement
- Canvas Admin Checklist A comprehensive list of recommendations from CSM's and Trainers byTraining Services
- Your Checklist for Canvas Success a checklist for adoption, utilization, and improving the overall student experience by @akuntz
- Preparing Your Canvas: Starting a new LMS thoughtful and detailed journey of Canvas adaption at NKU by @jonesn16
- Managing Security
- Courses
- Powering Up & More!
- Powering Up Your Canvas Course: Canvas Beginner Essentials an awesome series of infographics by j1201982
- Powering Up Your Canvas Course: Canvas Intermediate Essentials
- Powering Up Your Canvas Course: Triumvirate Tips! (Intermediate Series)
- Powering Up Your Canvas Course: Advanced Essentials
- Powering Up Your Canvas Course: Cool Things Series
- Getting Started with Canvas in 10 Steps (Faculty) an awesome set of customizable infographic checklists by @kpinto
- Getting Started with Canvas in 10 Steps (Students)
- Canvas Rollout Editable Printables shared by @akuntz
Canvas Instructor
- Guides
- Discussions
- Canvas Features
- Tools
Instructional Design
- Accessibility
- General Accessibility Design Guidelines
- Accessibility within Canvas list of officially supported screen readers for CanvasLMS
- An Intro To Screen Reader Testing for Sighted Developers This quick guide will give you an introduction to the why and how of testing your website's user experience using screen readers.
- How to Fix and Prevent Accessibility Issues in Your Canvas Course tips for addressing accessibility issues in a Canvas course by @dholton
- Inclusive Design Principles intended to give anyone involved in the design and development of websites and applications - designers, user experience professionals, developers, product owners, idea makers, innovators, artists and thinkers - a broad approach to inclusive design.
- Inclusive Components A blog trying to be a pattern library. All about designing inclusive web interfaces, piece by piece.
- Accessibility LTI
- ALLY a discussion about adoption of Blackboard ALLY and comparison/combination with UDOIT
- UDOIT Information The Universal Design Online content Inspection Tool, or UDOIT (pronounced, “You Do It”) enables faculty to identify accessibility issues in their Canvas course content
- Course Checklists
- Rich Content Editor - Guides, Tutorials & Courses
- New and Improved Rich Content Editor HTML Cheatsheet
- CanvasHacks Classroom open course sharing different ways of designing content in Canvas
- Flexbox Grid tips and guides how to use Flexbox Grid inside Canvas RCE by @MattHanes
- Relearn CSS layout: Every Layout great resource for wrestling with CSS layout
- Homepage and Content
- Gamification
- Mastery Paths
- Mobile
- Rubrics
Canvas Mobile
- Android and iOS Mobile App API Documentation
- Canvas Mobile App URL Schemes (Useful with Canvas Data)
- Mobile App Design | Course Evaluation Checklist
- Canvas Student App Feature List
- Canvas Teacher App Feature List
- Canvas Mobile Users Group (CMUG)
- Canvas Mobile Product Manager Updates
Canvas Theme Editor
- Documentation
- Global UI Hacks & Augmentation
- Admin Tray - Sub Account Menu
- Create a Sandbox Course via Web Application/API?
- Course import tool: include completed courses by default
- Custom Sorting Terms in the Canvas UI
- Custom JavaScript for Admin/Courses Page
- https://community.canvaslms.com/message/200226-re-custom-js-to-hide-import-course-link-for-teachers
- Customizing Add People Dialog with Custom JavaScript
- Global Nav Menu - Custom Tray
- Module Filters
- Sort Account-Level Course Page Terms in Descending Order
- User Script UI Hacks & Augmentation
- Admin Tray - Sub Account Menu
- Canvancements Comprehensive list of Canvancements (Canvas Enhancements) @James has developed for Canvas
- HTML Editor Syntax Highlighter
- Discussions, Mutation Observers
- A comment on handling CORS and vanilla JS authentication #comment-132522
- How to adapt to the undocumented JavaScript loading sequence changes?
- Inclusive Components A blog trying to be a pattern library. All about designing inclusive web interfaces, piece by piece.
Canvas API
- Documentation
- Managing Security
- Tutorials and Courses
- Discussion
- Programming Languages, Examples, Support
- curl and OAuth tokens on macOS command line tricks by @matthew_buckett
- API - Getting Started for the Absolute Beginner #comment-150077 command line tricks by @phanley
- A Simple Python GET Script
- Python code samples
- How do we *USE* API? #comment-139370 some Python and Ruby examples
- API request to get a full list of students example in jQuery and Python
- .NET - Canvas API Implementation
- Update Student Notification Preferences with Python or Ruby Notification Preferences API
- Get a List of Students and Missing Work in Python by @bbennett2
- Postman Canvas API Collection by @dsweeney2
- Live API
- Canvas Live API Basic interface for using and testing API requests, change the subdomain for your institution.
- @fosterl demystifies the API in her InstCon16 presentation
- Utilities, Wrappers, Examples
- universityofadelaide/rest-client-wrapper Ruby REST client wrapper around the rest-client gem
- ucfopen/canvasapi Python API wrapper for Instructure's Canvas LMS. Easily manage courses, users, gradebooks, and more
- dgrobani/py3-canvaslms-api Python 3 API wrapper for Instructure's Canvas LMS with real-world examples of use
- byuitechops/canvas-api-wrapper NodeJS, Simplifies the already simple canvas api calls, and handles pagination
- ubccapico/node-canvas-api Access the Canvas API using Node.js
- kstateome/canvas-api Java library for interacting with the Canvas LMS API
- unsupported/canvas unsupported Canvas tweaks and scripts, the API and SIS examples are useful
Canvas Data
- Documentation
- Canvas Platform Services : Canvas Data
- Canvas Data FAQ
- Canvas Data Portal schema and API docs
- Canvas Platform Services : Canvas Data
- Canvas Data API
- Canvas Data API Authentication
- How to Make an API Call with Canvas Data Examples in 8 languages
- Download, Import, Manage
- Build a Canvas Data Warehouse on AWS in 30 minutes! low cost solution with AWS CloudFormation Stack shared by 50581462
- Managing Canvas Data with Embulk YAML configs for importing Canvas Data with Embulk, for any RDBMS and more
- Canvas Data: CLI Instructure's command line tool to connect and download files from Canvas Data
- Canvas Data SDK Python SDK and command-line tool for working with the Canvas Data API and generating DDLs
- Canvas Data Viewer download Canvas Data files into a SQL Server database where you can query and analyze the information
- Canvancements/Canvas Data A PHP library for Canvas Data API and MySQL import tool
- millerjm/canvasdata Process for importing the Canvas Data Files into a MySQL Database
- Queries
- Deobfuscate user_dim.id? Quick example of user_id association
- instructure/canvas-hosted-data-examples Collection of examples that use Canvas Hosted Data to answer questions
- Canvas Data queries for AWS/Athena - a git repo of queries written for Athena by @reynlds
- Basic Enrollment Report #comment-141921 Example enrollment query
- Canvas Data Page Views #comment-101576
- Getting the title of the page that students viewed #comment-109279
- Finding your Community Users
- List View Dashboard Usage Discovery #comment-121975 Requests table queries for evaluating dashboard view preferences
- Masquerade Reports #comment-141627 Request table queries for Masquerading
- Find external tool usage in course shells
- Redshift vs. Canvas Analytics
- Submission Date/Time for External Content?
- Power BI discussion, with some queries and sharing, including average time to grade
- Tableau
- How to Open Canvas Data Files in Tableau
- Tableau Workbook Examples
- Announcement Posted?
- Assignment Grade History
- Canvas Data: Assignments Workbook
- Assignment Score & Final Course Grade Distributions
- Device Usage in Canvas Data with Tableau
- Early Warning for Students
- Quiz Availability Dates
- Searching for Words, Tools, Text Strings
- Which teacher hasn’t logged into Canvas?
- Theory, Concepts, Discussions
- Canvas Data Requests count vs. Canvas Analytics Page Views
- How Do I Determine Time Spent on Site
- The Problem with the Requests Table
- Can we have access to students' time spent on the course site?
- Requests Table an in depth discussion about the complexities and issues with the table in SQL
- Compelling uses for the Requests table?
Canvas GraphQL
- Documentation
- GraphQL API - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation
- Introduction to GraphQL | GraphQL Learn about GraphQL, how it works, and how to use it in this series of articles
- GraphiQL
- your.instructure.com/graphiql, note the i, browser based GraphQL query explorer
- your.instructure.com/graphiql, note the i, browser based GraphQL query explorer
- Queries
- Mutations
Canvas Live Events
- Documentation & Setup
- IMS Standards & Documentation
- Ingestion
- LEDbelly - Live Events Daemon for Canvas LMS - SQS to SQL, supports Canvas and Caliper for multiple RDBMS
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An AWS guide or CloudFormation Stack for Live Events consumption as described by:
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as 50581462 has done for Canvas Data with Build a Canvas Data Warehouse on AWS in 30 minutes!
- Queries
- Theory, Concepts, Discussions
- Getting SQS message to SQL Database
- Combining canvas data and live events to have timely data @millerjm 's InstCon19 presentation on Last Day of Attendance, with queries
- Big Data Ideas & Usage for Tiny Budgets & Small Teams carroll-ccsd's InstCon19 presentation on Canvas Data, Live Events, Real Time data LTI
- Live Events: Suffering with IDs discussion about differences in event formats and use cases.
Open Source LTI
- CUOnline/sandbox Ruby LTI tool that generates sandbox courses in Canvas
- CUOnline/SandboxCore An ASP.NET Core implementation of the Sandbox Course functionality.
- CIDI/kennethware-2.0 Tools to facilitate rapid course development in Instructure Canvas.
- ets-berkeley-edu/suitec SuiteC is a set of LTI-compliant tools optimized to work with the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS).
- ucfopen/UDOIT The Universal Design Online content Inspection Tool, or UDOIT (pronounced, “You Do It”) enables faculty to identify accessibility issues in Canvas by Instructure. It will scan a course, generate a report, and provide resources on how to address common accessibility issues
- Materia Engage students by embedding interactive apps into your Canvas modules or assignments. Materia comes with a library of games, surveys, and simulations; each is easily customized by faculty to fit their course. Developing new apps for Materia is easy and streamlined.
Open Source LTI Development
- Documentation
- Learning Tools Interoperability | IMS Global Learning Consortium
- Basic Overview of How LTI works | IMS Global Learning Consortium
- LTI Fundamentals FAQ | IMS Global Learning Consortium
- Video: Get To Know LTI Advantage introduces LTI Advantage in less than 10 mins by @lfeng1
- Guides, Videos, Dicussions, and Courses
- Great API and LTI dev course, but not maintained for a while in which @sendres initiates a new open course for LTI collaboration and development
- Video: LTI 1.3 in Action short video covering the messages passed between Platform and Tool using LTI 1.3 and Open ID Connect by @lfeng1
- .NET - OAuth2 Workflow: Part 1 - Authrorize Redirect
- LTI User/enrollment provisioning and synchronization
- Examples & Templates
- Hire an LTI Consultant/Freelancer? #comment-107883 in which pklove replies with a basic NodeJS LTI right in his post
- UCFOpen LTI Template Flask LTI template written in Python using the Flask framework. Quickly create a new application that can be launched through your Learning Management System using the LTI protocol. Uses standard configurable Key & Secret to launch
- instructure/lti_example an example of using LTI and the Outcomes Service in Instructure Canvas
- Discussion
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I used to develop web applications and content management systems; since 2013 I've been cobbling together Canvas integrations and features for K12 Online & Blended Learning...KOBL. From LAMP stack to Canvas stack(?), and trying to make it portable one project at a time.
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