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Managing Messaging in large courses with multiple Teachers/TAs

Large courses for us are courses with 100's of students and multiple TA's to assist the teacher with the administration of the course.   The can happen because it's a single large course ev...

01-20-2023

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Pros/Cons of Oauth for in-house 1st-party apps

Good Morning, We are building more apps for our environment, and only for our environment.   In the past we had included Oauth into our apps so that the API calls were made with the privi...

10-18-2022

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Is there a Canvas Developers Program?

A small team of students at my school is building an app and they envision it working with Canvas.   Is there a Developers Program they can join that would provide access to a development i...

03-18-2022

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What's the deal with changing role_id's

So, I started looking at using API to add and remove enrollments in 2019.    At that time, I had mades calls to    /api/v1/accounts/86643/roles And found that for us, ...

09-29-2021

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Enrollments API list order, recent change from sortable_name to ???

Good Morning, Basically forever, this particular API call would return users in order by their sortable name https://usflearn.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/sis_course_id:EVR2001.003U21/enrollment...

07-09-2021

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LTI 1.3 : What to do with the id_token in Step 4

I've setting up a hello world LTI 1.3 ,and I've got it working to the point that I'm getting back what appears to be a valid  id_token I can take this id_token, and paste it into https:...

06-01-2021

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Documentation Request

Looking here https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.lti_dev_key_config.html   It would be helpful if the Canvas docs simply spelled out ALL the required parameters in step 2, including...

06-01-2021

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Inconsistency in LTI 1.3 Documentation

Looking here https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.lti_dev_key_config.html in Step 2, the docs say Among the required variables the request should include: a  redire...

06-01-2021

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Now Hiring, Product Owner, Univ. South Florida

Hi friends. If anyone knows anybody that might be interested in being the Product Owner for the Canvas system at University of South Florida, please let them know that we are hiring. https://gems.u...

05-05-2021

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Way to bulk remove old To Do items?

As a teacher, for reasons I don't entirely understand, I've managed to accumulate 100's of old to do items on my Canvas dashboard.   I'd like to remove them so that I can focus on just the ...

05-03-2021

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Provisioning Report API multiple Terms

I'm currently able to generate a provisioning report (a zip file of users, courses, enrollments, etc...) using the API, specifying a single term.    https://usflearn.instructure.com/api/v...

04-21-2021

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Why would I want to check the box "Launch SpeedGrader Filtered by Student Group"

I've gone through the document here https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-enable-SpeedGrader-to-launch-filtered-by-student-group/ta-p/947 And I can't get it to do anything ...

01-25-2021

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Speedgrader of New Quizzes directly from the Quiz page.

As near as I can tell, it's not possible to get to Speedgrader from within the quiz page.   The documentation only talks about accessing a New Quiz Speedgrader from the Gradebook.  &nb...

01-22-2021

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Now Hiring, Product Owner at Univ. South Florida

Good afternoon, We have an exciting opportunity for candidates seeking a role as a Digital Ecosystem Product Owner supporting our Canvas instance.   We are located in sunny Tampa, Flori...

01-11-2021

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Batch Un-enrollment for Canvas Manually Created Self Enrollment Course

We have developed a series of online workshops in Canvas that allow students to self-enroll. Each semester we would like to clear the enrollment of these course shells.   Some of them have ...

12-17-2020

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Programming Code Syntax Formatting Highlighting

I would like to suggest that the new RCE include the option to select a block of text and have it formatted nicely as programming code.    There is currently a CODE formatting option, but i...

11-19-2020

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New Analytics for Course Content

I have been exploring New Analytics in Canvas. We are trying to see data for specific content such as lectures, videos, etc., how long the content was viewed, etc.    Is there a way to...

11-16-2020

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Student sees giant locks instead of images iOS Mobile

A single student is using the Canvas Student app (iOS) to view course content.   All the images on the Modules they are looking at have been replaced with padlocks.   It's only th...

08-26-2020

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Differences between CANVAS_SUBMISSION_DIM and CANVAS_SUBMISSION_FACT

We ran into some weird data while parsing the canvas tables which we were hoping you can explain à Issue - Student has an assignment record in CANVAS_SUMISSION_FACT but does not have a record in CAN...

08-18-2020

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How many different ways can a student view a file in a course

I've got a student that got access to a file, and I'm trying to figure out how they may have done it.     The file was posted as a file attachment to the question text of a File Upl...

06-02-2020

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