How to get users canvas id through LTI without them interacting with the LTI

The use case is to use the Canvas Live Events webhook to get event information (like a assignment change for multiple students) and then send a notification to the users that it relates to. We would ...

Why does the grade_change live event prefix all the ids in the body?

Currently, we are trying to use the live event webhooks to send notifications to users of our app. When an event occurs Canvas hits our API, the API parses out the needed info (like user_id) and make...

Make request for all users of a course after receiving Live Event payload

Currently, my company has a canvas integration for our apps that uses the REST API. Customers seem to be interested in notifying users/students when a new assignment is created, updated, new discussi...

How to get current courses when terms never have end dates

Heyo, currently using the REST API to provide a different experience for different universities and their users. The  /api/v1/courses endpoint seems to get current courses based on the terms end...

What scope is required to DELETE a todo

In the Todo section of the API docs (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/users.html#method.users.todo_items) it says which URLs to use in order to remove a todo item but it does not mention what s...

Is there a way to use third party sso tokens for with the API?

If Canvas is set up to use a third party OpenID Connect and a user signs in to the OpenID Connect IDP directly and then they sign in to an integration that utilizes the Canvas API an issue occur...