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Canvas Data 2 Schema Checking API?

Does Instructure have any plans to add a schema checking endpoint for Canvas Data 2?  Currently, it is a manual process to validate that all of the expected columns for each table have been succ...

11-01-2023

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Canvas Data 2 Nested Data Patterns

Will nested data always have the same pattern?  Will nested data ever have deeply nested data (nested within nested data)? Other than Quiz tables which seem to have deeply nested data. Can y...

10-30-2023

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[People] Limit the "+People" form to the section a teacher/TA is assigned to (multiple teachers in one class)

Although you can set up a course to include multiple sections and you can even constrain teachers and TAs such that they can only interact with students within their section.  There is no way cu...

09-29-2021

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[API] Expose course level statistics via API

There is some valuable information about course statistics available via the UI including the running totals which show the total number of active students and number of unaccepted students.  ht...

11-30-2020

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[API] Include course "status" in the output of the "courses" API endpoint

The courses API endpoint does not return the "status" of a course.  This makes it difficult to repair course settings via the SIS Import for courses since course status is a required field and...

10-07-2020

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[Accounts] Surface Pending Users in the Admin->People search results

We add users to courses using the People/+People button inside of our courses. For users who are brand new to Canvas - this sends them an email inviting them to register for a Canvas account. The ...

08-19-2020

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[Notifications] Surface Canvas email notifications to pending users in a course via Admin Tools

The admin tools - view notifications feature is really helpful - unfortunately - it doesn't show communication to pending users. When you add a student to a course (who is brand new to Canvas) by ...

08-19-2020

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Fix the Canvas Course Invitation Email (New Students)

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-10-07). The email sent by Canvas to brand new users who nee...

07-31-2020

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