[Gradebook] Individual Gradebook Declutter

Problem statement: Since the deploy on 2024-01-17 that added the "Submitted" date column to the individual gradebook (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Deploy-Notes-2024-01-1...

[Theme Editor] Globally Customize Icons

Problem statement: The problem is fairly simple, some of the default icons provided by Instructure can be...confusing. Two "key" examples are the joint usage of the link icon for both external URLs ...

Restore Delete Course without Manage SIS Data Requirement

Comments from Instructure This was resolved as a Known Issue. ~2 updates ago the permission for delete courses with SIS data was modified to require the permission to manage SIS data. ...

[Permissions] Granular Course Import/Export Permissions

Scenario: It's not uncommon for faculty to try importing from their old shells and get the entire course. Then, in the process of cleaning up the mess, they delete more than they should. Not only...

[Global Navigation] Course Navigation Grouping

Idea So, the idea is pretty straightforward: allowing links on the course navigation to be grouped into submenus.   Reason Why? Any more questions?   Idea Breakdown Group...

Default Course Configuration

The idea is fairly straightforward: add the ability to define a "default configuration" for all new courses. This would mean that, instead of the Canvas default settings, when a new course is create ...

HTML Editor Syntax Highlighter (Updated 2022-03-09)

Original Post Disclaimer This is my second blog post to the Canvas Community, but I'm going to stick with my tl;dr format.   The Situation Who doesn't like their code to be easier to...

Developer Styles

...odifying code fragments that I make public. Since I already addressed the comment bit on this, I won't rehash it, but it's also referring my code. As I mentioned above, I have strict rules that govern the a...

Full Course Listing with Sorting and Filtering

Update 2018-07-25 I know this is late, but I was unable to edit the post to make this update. On 2018-06-23 this script became OBSOLETE due to Instructure having made their own version a non-opti...

External Site Login

Alright, so let me explain the scenario. I'm looking to make legitimately configured student accounts available to authorized users without needing to provide login credentials for a whole new accoun...

"Real" Student View

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas For details, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-08-12).  Okay, so the title could use some work, sorry abo...

Additional Canvas Reporting

Please, know that this is not going up as an idea or question because I want to spark a discussion on this and that it would not be something for Instructure to do, unless someone really wants to ask...

API 504 Timeout Avoidance

The title kinda covers the question: how can I avoid sporadic 504 errors when conducting extensive API calls? So, the basic situation is that I'm trying to generate a report of all instances of th...

API: GET lti_apps

Alright, while I was working on a way to identify the origin of an external tool configuration that is linked into a course, I stumbled across an API access point that gives me exactly what I was loo...

Account Role Detection

Edit (5/20/2016): Below is the code I came up with to build a global array of all Account Roles assigned to the ENV['current_user_id'] relative to the page being accessed. Rewriting this edit has ...

Truly Ungraded Assignment

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   I'm sorry for the odd title, I just can't seem to come up with a good one that describes what I'm going to be suggesting. We use "un...

New UI Dashboard Default View

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   It would be nice to be able to have some measure of control over the new UI dashboard. For example, the ability to identify what the...