Canvas

robotcars · ‎07-16-2019

A curated list of CanvasLMS Community and Open Source contributions.

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changelog

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
- Release Notes: Canvas LMS
- Release Notes: Canvas Data
Source, Hosting, and Developer Support
- Canvas Dev & Friends - Instructure Tech Blog Resources for API development, App development, and open source development

Canvas Guides
The complete list of guides for all users and roles, from Student to Parent, and everyo...

Canvas Admin

Guides
- Getting Started Tutorials - Table of Contents
- FastTrack: Canvas Admin Series
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
- Administrative guidelines for managing Inherited Developer Keys
- Administrative guidelines for issuing Canvas Developer Keys
Courses
- Growing with Canvas - New Training Course
- Passport to Canvas - Student Canvas Orientation Course
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
- Canvas Instructor Guide - Table of Contents
Discussions
Canvas Features
- Functionality Comparison: Current vs. New Canvas Gradebook
Tools
- Canvancements - Canvas Enhancements

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
- Course Evaluation Checklist byTraining Services‌
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
- Creating an inviting course home page
- Home Sweet Homepages without Tables
Gamification
Mastery Paths
- Hacking Mastery Paths
- Taking the Mystery out of Mastery Paths
Mobile
Rubrics

Canvas Mobile

Android and iOS Mobile App API Documentation
Canvas Mobile App URL Schemes (Useful with Canvas Data)
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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
- How do I upload custom JavaScript and CSS files to an account?
Global UI Hacks & Augmentation
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
- Canvas LMS REST API Documentation
- How do I manage API access tokens as an admin?
Managing Security
- Administrative guidelines for managing Inherited Developer Keys
- Administrative guidelines for issuing Canvas Developer Keys
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 ‌
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 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
- 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
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
Queries
Mutations
- How to read and change Course Post Policy of the New Gradebook with GraphQL

Canvas Live Events

Documentation & Setup
- How do I use the Data Services Portal?
  - How do I subscribe to Live Events using Canvas Data Services?
  - How do I create an SQS queue in Amazon Web Services to receive Live Events data from Canvas?
IMS Standards & Documentation
Ingestion
- LEDbelly - Live Events Daemon for Canvas LMS - SQS to SQL, supports Canvas and Caliper for multiple RDBMS
  
  Bug bounty of 2,500 community badge points for the following blog posts and documentation:
  
  An AWS guide or CloudFormation Stack for Live Events consumption as described by:
  @lfeng1 ‌ here Getting SQS message to SQL Database #comment-130997
  msharke1‌ https://community.canvaslms.com/people/msharke1@asu.edu/status/31405" modifiedtitle="true" title="He...
  as 50581462‌ has done for Canvas Data with Build a Canvas Data Warehouse on AWS in 30 minutes!
  
  OR, document and provide an example of SQS to SQL with Fluentd
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

robotcars · ‎07-17-2019

I spoke with Stefanie about this awhile back when I first put this on my todo list. Since the list doesn't require 'code', and can go beyond code. I've included some items which are just discussions, theory, documentation, and courses. The reason for choosing Meta Community, was that anyone in the community (Meta Community Group) can edit the doc, while others (eg. Instructional Designers, Admins), might not be in the Developer Group.

This is not my document, I am not the maintainer. More on that here https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-17356

scottdennis · ‎07-17-2019

OK, that makes sense to me. Thanks!

b_w_reid · ‎09-08-2020

Hi, A lot of the links in the Canvas Admin section don't work! 🙂

Bobby2 · ‎09-08-2020

HI @b_w_reid I suspect they may be victims of moving to a new community platform. Hopefully they will be restored soon.

Jeff_F · ‎02-04-2021

@robotcars I am extremely humbled that a set of my contributions made it to your list. When Canvas Data 2 comes out I'll be sure to contribute entries using that schema.

@scottdennis - as the following resources may still be of value to someone, do you supposed the blog entries below can be brought over from the prior community? The links below are from the Tableau section above. I entered *** next to the two that are more complex where the detailed explanation is useful. These have a high potential of helping others.

The Early Warning Report -

Early Warning

scottdennis · ‎02-04-2021

Hi Jeff,

Unfortunately we still had access to the old site from August 7th when we flipped the switch until Jan 1st but then our platform provider took down the old Jive site and we no longer have a way to go back in and grab content. Hopefully Robert and folks like him who still have useful content like this will be willing and able to share again.

robotcars · ‎02-04-2021

@Jeff_F I'm extremely grateful for your contributions. I'd never used Tableau before tinkering with Canvas Data, your posts were enormously helpful in getting started.

When CanvasData2 is out, maybe we can run a points challenge to get people to recontribute key concepts with the new schema.

This entire document needs to be updated and curated for what survived the migration or had the URL that changed.

@scottdennis I can't see permissions in the Edit option as with Jive. Is this document still editable to anyone in the MetaCommunity group? Anyone should be able to edit this.

scottdennis · ‎02-04-2021

Hey @robotcars

Just to be sure I understand correctly, you would like for anyone who joins the Community Users Group (we changed it from Meta because that named confused some people as to the group's purpose) so be able to edit this resource, correct?

robotcars · ‎02-04-2021

Hi @scottdennis,

Anyone in the community really, unless you have concerns. In Jive the only option was to allow members of this group to edit this thread. However that can be done in Khoros works for me. The document should be edited and curated by the community as it creates and finds resources/answers/solutions that need a lasting bookmark and a place for discovering those contributions.

scottdennis · ‎02-08-2021

Looking at options now...