bulk update course settings

[liz_laverty]

Hi All,

We're new to Canvas at my school. We have about 800 courses running and now have been asked to make sure that all teachers select the "hide_final_grades" and "hide_distribution_graphs" checked. I've asked teachers to do it for their individual courses, but I want a way to set them all from the back end so that we don't miss any.  I've also tried using the live api, but I'm still limited to updating one course at a time.  As I understand it, there is no "easy" way to do this and I've been working to write a Python script myself by haven't had much success.  I wonder if anyone here has one already written or a similar script that you might be willing to share that I can modify?

Thank you,

Liz

[kona]

Due to the technical nature of this question I'm going to share it with the Canvas Developers group in the Community. They are the ones that work with this side of Canvas and should hopefully be able to help! In addition, you might consider joining the Developers group and checking out some of their other resources/information!

[MattHanes · Accepted solution]

I modified one from this Githubb repository to do what what you need: https://github.com/unsupported/canvas

GitHub - unsupported/canvas: Unsupported Canvas Tweaks

Here is a link to the file:
canvascode/Change-Course-Settings at master · matthanes/canvascode · GitHub

[liz_laverty]

This is amazing.  Thank you for you help!