Instructure Community Developers Group - June Meet Up

The Instructure Community Developers Group is gathering to meet some fellow developers of Canvas customizations and external tool integrations.  Discuss projects you're working on, suc...

Instructure Community Developers Group - May Meet Up

The Instructure Community Developers Group is gathering to meet some fellow developers of Canvas customizations and external tool integrations.  Discuss projects you're working on, suc...

Instructure Community Developers Group - April Meet Up

The Instructure Community Developers Group is gathering to meet some fellow developers of Canvas customizations and external tool integrations.  Discuss projects you're working on, suc...

Developers Group Code Repositories and Examples

Hello Developers Group, 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 y...

Re: Changing the teacher of a class without losing data in gradebook

Hi @EdTechSpecialis, It sounds like this might be a problem with how PowerSchool is sending the info to Canvas then.  I'm going to move this over to the SIS area to see if someone there w...

[External Tools] windowTagret parameter should be functional for more LTI placements

Problem statement: Some LTI tools do not function if embedded or out in an iframe. Setting the windowTarget parameter to "_blank" in the LTI config launches the LTI tool in anew window/tab for cours...

Get admin roles through API

Hi all, I'm hoping someone might be able to help me out, as I'm running in to some brick walls on a project... I'm trying to create a javascript function to be used for customizations in our theme ...

Re: Users

Hi @KelseiFavors, I'm not aware of a user limit in the free-for-teacher Canvas instance, but I';ll move this question over into a specific forum for that instance where someone else may know i...

"Open Source Canvas" users group?

Hi developers group members! As a Community Coach, I monitor the general Canvas Questions area and this Developers Group.  I've noticed that the general Canvas Questions area gets a decent amo...

Re: ERROR: The specified class.sourcedId value '26779784' is not valid.

Hi @RunRichardsRun, It’s been a while since we’ve heard from you. We hope you are doing well and that you’ve found an answer to your question! The Community Team acknowledges that this thread doe...

Re: Is there a way to specify prefer_sis_email when using LTI 1.3?

Hi @office9, I found this question while doing a community cleanup.  I believe I have a possible answer for you.  I tested various things, and what finally seemed to work (judging by...

[Admin Tools] Restrict file extensions/types that can be uploaded to Canvas' Files area

Hi, We would like to be able to prevent certain file types/extensions from being uploaded to the Files area of Canvas.  It would be great if we could have some kind of admin control at the acc...

Submission count on assignment details page should not include inactive students

Hi everyone, It came to our attention earlier this week that the submission count on right hand column of the assignment details page (screenshot attached) includes submissions of inactive students...

Remove discussion created date for imports

Currently, when a discussion is imported from another Canvas course, the creation date and author info comes into the newly created course.  For situations where course content is reused from ye...

[Assignment Enhancements] Student file uploads with assignment enhancements should generate a traceable events

With assignment enhancements enabled this semester, we repeatedly ran into an issue where students told our support staff and their teachers that they submitted work, even though SpeedGrader did not ...

[Admin Tools] Allow edit/entry of all LTI parameters in the Canvas UI

There are many configuration parameters for LTIs (see the external tools API docs) that are only available to change/edit through either the API or through editing XML (LTI 1.0/1.11) / JSON (LTI 1.3)...

Anyone with lightboard experience?

Hi there fellow carnival-goers!  I'm wondering if there's anyone attending this year who has experience with lightboards (learning glass, other brands, or custom built).  We are looking int...

Sharing registration info/email with Instructure "partners"

Did I miss an opt-out of email sharing option when I registered for InstructureCon?  In the last 24 hours, I've probably gotten 10 emails from Instructure "partners" advertising their services a...

Agent C^2

[OPERATIVE] Here's what you need to know about this operative: NAME: chriscas TITLE: University Coordinator of Digital Education SCHOOL/ORGANIZATION: University of Michigan-Dearborn # TIME...

Global url replacement in html

We have an existing LTI where we'd like to change the URL (don't want to get into too many details about that, but I can, if necessary).  The problem is this LTI can embed content through the RC...