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Yes, they have https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a742024 Good Luck with it.

glparker · ‎01-24-2023

In a perfect world, there would be a "help desk" mode for Canvas messaging that a teacher could check a box to enable in their course settings. This would be an enhancement of the existing messaging tool, not a new/different tool. The messages to course admins (teachers , tas, designers) then get managed like tickets, and the course admins have a special view of the messages. Then, students would use messaging as normal, but the message gets tracked in a special way where teachers and tas can see if anyone has responded to the message, and/or the messages can be assigned to ta, maybe even SLA's where messages that don't get a response get escalated to the teacher. 'perchance to dream Thanks, Glen

glparker · ‎01-24-2023

Thank you for the reply. Some of our faculty have tried to setup discussions. It works with mixed results. The main issue is that students, like al humans, are creatures of habit. They prefer to use Canvas messaging as a default, and teaching them to use something different on a course by course basis is hard.

glparker · ‎01-20-2023

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 everyone registers for, or because there are multiple small sections that the teacher crosslists. The teachers in our large courses all have the problem of managing messaging from students. The teacher tries to get students to message their TA first for questions, or to even message any TA first, before messaging the teacher directly. But no matter what the teachers try, students end up messaging the wrong people or end up messaging everyone, and no one know who is working the question. We've looked at 3rd party tools, but students keep messaging using the Canvas system they are familiar with, circumventing the 3rd party tool. Can you share strategies you've come up with for managing the messaging in large courses? Thanks, Glen

glparker · ‎10-18-2022

Hi Matt, Thanks for the thoughts, I had forgotten that bit about throttling buckets per Oauth token vs a single admin token. I don't think it's necessarily a deal breaker, but we'll consider it's implications. Regarding your Oauth server, would love to see it. Regarding our own apps. - We have a grading app that let's teachers select one of their canvas gradebook columns, transform those percentages to letter grades, and submit them to the SIS for end of semester recording - An app for reporting first day of class attendance, which automatically drops students from the class in the SIS if marked absent, freeing up seats for waiting students - An app for letting users with large course lists quickly remove themselves from ones they no longer need - An app for teachers sending student concerns to various places, one for mental health, one for academic issue, one for instances of academic integrity - A Photo Roster that shows list of students and their ID card photo - A Course completion app that sits behind a Canvas quiz prerequisite. When the student completes the quiz and then clicks into the page with this app, the student sees a congratulations message, but various things are also triggered from the server. Such as sending emails to one or more people letting them know about the completion so they can take next steps, updating the SIS with certain non-course attributes, emailing the student a receipt of completion. Thanks Again Glen

glparker · ‎10-18-2022

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 privileges of the teacher/students using the app. However, managing Oauth tokens is a bit tedious. I'm considering just using an admin token and API Scoping for our new application, and removing the overhead of managing Oauth tokens. What are some other pros and cons of using Oauth and the complications it brings for a 1st-party, in-house developed application that will never leave our borders. Are there other glaring security concerns I'm overlooking using an admin token in our app vs Oauth tokens?

glparker · ‎03-18-2022

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 instance of Canvas they can use to hone their application and prepare it for integration with real instances of Canvas?

glparker · ‎12-08-2021

We've also gotten a few reports of this recently. We're just starting to investigate, but hearing reports from another school gives me concern something changed.

glparker · ‎09-29-2021

Oh! I had missed that enrollment[type] is actually a required element. That's interesting, I've not been using it.

glparker · ‎09-29-2021

Will setting it to type TeacherEnrollment always work if you have custom roles that are based on TeacherEnrollment?

glparker · ‎09-29-2021

Additional information. Instructure lets me create/POST a new enrollment using the old 1208 role_id, and it adds them as a teacher. However, when I look at the enrollment record, Instructure has renumbered it to the 'current' 7743 "role": "TeacherEnrollment", "role_id": 7743, The problem I'm having is if I add the person with 1208, delete them, then try to readd them with 1208, I get an internal server error. POST 1208, DELETE, POST 1208 -> Internal Server Error If I do the same, POST 7743, Delete, POST 7743, it works fine. So, really, this all boils down to making sure I'm using the correct role_id. So my main concern is will it change again, and was the original change documented and I missed it?

glparker · ‎09-29-2021

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, "id": 1208, "role": "TeacherEnrollment", "label": "Teacher", That project got put on hold, but I'm picking it back up. Today, when I get a teachers enrollment, I don't get back role_id 1208, rather, I'm not getting back for all teachers role_id 7743 If I call the account roles api, I also get back TeacherEnrollment of 7743, and I don't see role_id 1208 in this list /api/v1/accounts/86643/roles If I get the details of role 7743, I get back all the permissions I would expect for this role_id /api/v1/accounts/86643/roles/7743 HOWEVER, I can still use the API to get back the details of the old role_id 1208 /api/v1/accounts/86643/roles/1208 With the ability to query/add roles by Name, I HAVE to use role_id, right? So, I should expect that I could 'hard code' role 1208 in my code and it would always work to add Teachers to courses. But my lived experience is that somewhere between 2019 and today, Instructure created a new TeacherEnrollment with a new role_id. Should I hard code 7743 today and hope it doesn't change? Or do I need to make an expensive call to /roles to lookup whatever the current role_id for TeacherEnrollment is before every call to modify an enrollment? What's the best practice here?

glparker · ‎07-22-2021

@lyra_stephens I asked about Module progression on the Release Notes page and was told it was postponed due to bugginess. They did not provide an ETA for its release

glparker · ‎07-09-2021

I don't have enough data to say for sure, but in these API queries, it looks like the records are being returned ordered by their enrollment_id (id) "id": 35353741, "sortable_name": "Hogrell, John", "id": 35357751, "sortable_name": "Bethel, Johnny", "id": 35365449, "sortable_name": "Oliver, Findlay", "id": 35368163, "sortable_name": "Eliga, Joslyn", "id": 35368597, "sortable_name": "Orehek, Simon", "id": 35370519, "sortable_name": "Pena, Micaela", "id": 35373201, "sortable_name": "Ostler, Jacob", "id": 35376037, "sortable_name": "Thompson, Rylee", "id": 35378627, "sortable_name": "Ibragimov, Azim", "id": 35410815, "sortable_name": "Brady, Morgan", "id": 35415895, "sortable_name": "Ferguson, Angus", "id": 35418371, "sortable_name": "Bohren, Jacob", "id": 35422587, "sortable_name": "Bermudez-Quinones, Shirleann", "id": 35444731, "sortable_name": "More, Shelbi", Seems like someone added/changed an order by in the underlying query recently. . .

glparker · ‎07-09-2021

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/enrollments?role=StudentEnrollment However, within the last few days, this API call is now returning the users in a seemingly arbitrary order. The order is consistent among multiple calls to the API, as long as the population in the course is the same, the order of the students seems to always be the same, but in an unstructured order. All of our applications that load enrollments were replying on this sort ordering, and now our applications are displaying the students in whatever order, highly disruptive to the teachers using our applications. Were there any changes to the Enrollments endpoint recently? I didn't see any listed in the change log, (but if we were relying on an undocumented feature, that's not surprising). If there was a change, and chance it could be reverted or an explicit sort added to the output? If this was a planned change, do you have any suggestions for how we can make the API call and request the results in sortable order? Is there an API query option to request a particular ordering to the results?

glparker · ‎06-23-2021

My opinion on this question: Instructure should not introduce changes to developers in core technologies like GraphQL without sufficient reference implementations the developer community can learn from. Survey your developers community, identify the top-X languages they are developing in, and build reference implementation projects that they can use to learn from. Only then should you move forward in promoting/requiring changes to your developer technology stack. TL;DR Please consider making sample projects available in the top-X community favored languages, using core language libraries as much as possible(avoid pre-processor helpers, IDE specific plugins, 3rd party libraries, etc...). In those cases where you feel the external helper is beneficial, include a reference implementation of just that library/technology to help the developer learn that skill too. Some background: My team is comprised of a number of old-timey java developers and student developers. We are struggling to teach ourselves Spring development in Java to update our skills. As part of our re-education, we spent nearly a month trying to understand and implement LTI 1.3 into a basic helloworld application, just getting the LTI1.3 to launch our application. In our case of LTI 1.3, we needed to teach ourselves JWT, learn about and select from 6 different JWT libraries in Java, teach ourselves about the LTI1.3 Launch Flow (OIDC, then Launch), figure out what parameters needed be passed and received at each step through trial and error. It was tedious having to reinvent already solved problems. In addition, some of Instructure's documentation was buggy, another hurdle. Instructure could have done a lot to bootstrap otherwise knowledgeable developers with reference implementations of various aspects of Canvas development in common languages. In our case, if Instructure provided a simple helloworld LTI 1.3 application in Java Spring that did the OIDC and then the Launch in Java, we could have learned from that and been up and running in a day instead of a month. If Instructure provided a 2nd reference application in Java Spring that shows how to do handoff from LTI Launch to the OAuth flow to get use access_tokens and refresh_tokens, that will save my team another month of research and experimentation. Another example. Canvas Data API required to use an obtuse authentication workflow to make API calls, but didn't document well how to actually perform this authentication. A simple method reference example would have solved this problem for dozens of developers, but instead, the community has come to rely on James Jones Python script to download canvas data files, rather than be equipped with the basic knowledge to do it themselves in their language of choice. It does me no good so see all the various NewQuiz endpoints in GraphQL if I don't know how to execute a GraphQL API call in my language of choice . == Ideas for reference implementations in popular languages. Make a RESTful API call Process the JSON Results, inc work with Pagination Work with SIS IDs Work with Compound Documents Work with File Uploads Make an LTI 1.1 Launch (deprecated...) Make an OAuth launch, store the refresh_token in memory, request an access_token, make an API call using that token. Make an LTI 1.3 Launch (OIDC, Launch), inc. working with JWT Work with Canvas Data Authentication Load Canvas Data into RDMBS Work with Canvas Data 2 Authentication Load Canvas Data 2 into RDMBS Work with GraphQL Grade Passback Live Events

glparker · ‎06-02-2021

Ticket Submitted, Thanks.

glparker · ‎06-01-2021

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://jwt.io/ and I can see expected results. What I can't figure out is what jwt.io is doing to decode/decrypt this id-token. The docs say https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.lti_dev_key_config.html The request will include an id_token which is a signed JWT containing the LTI payload (user identifiers, course contextual data, custom data, etc.). Tools must validate the request is actually coming from Canvas using Canvas' public JWKs. But the linked docs don't say "How" to perform this verification. What is the workflow for decoding and validating the id_token once we've gotten it?

glparker · ‎06-01-2021

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 examples of each required parameter. Instead of listing a few of them and then having me jump to the IMS Spec page to figure out the rest. Thanks, Glen

glparker · ‎06-01-2021

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 redirect_uri , which must match at least one configured on the developer key. a client_id that matches the developer key. This must be registered in the tool before the launch occurs. the same login_hint that Canvas sent in Step 1. a state parameter the tool will use to validate the request in Step 4. However, in practice, when writing my own oidc redirect, I'm finding that I can exclude the login_hint, and that I am required to provide a lti_message_hint (which is also included in the payload from step 1) I am including both in practice, but would like some clarification. Also, side note, it would be helpful if the Canvas docs simply spelled out ALL the required parameters in step 2, including examples of each required parameter. Instead of listing a few of them and then having me jump to the IMS Spec page to figure out the rest. Thanks, Glen

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