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SethBattis
Seth Battis
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Director of Academic Technology, Groton School
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So, my impression is that terms are sorted based on date and, perhaps, name. But it doesn't seem consistent. For example, here's the term order on the admin Terms page, which appears to be in ...
Right now, if a user logs in to our Canvas instance on a mobile device, they have no way of knowing which Canvas instance they are logging in to. This is true of both mobile browser (left) and mobile ...
This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Idea will be open for vote Wed. August 5, 2015 - Wed. November 4, 2015 Learn more about voting...At present, when an assignment receives a per...
This was my third InstructureCon, and each of them has been both the same and different. The structure is always pretty predictably familiar, but where I've been at has changed wildly: mid-rollout...
Here's one that I had initially poo-pooed until @mlattke (perhaps unintentionally) lit a fire under me: .Essentially, we set up observers in our systems, but they aren't even second-cl...
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So, I think it's worth winding back to _why_ I was asking this question: because I was pulling "available" courses from the API and a bunch of old courses were showing up. Turns out that t...
FWIW, I did end up just writing a script (details are [here](https://github.com/groton-school/canvas-cli/blob/36b1aa5ea1d40276fdcf7623afc7739d37be0508/packages/canvas-cli/src/Commands/Courses/Conclude...
Oh, and the tool is making the request using credentials issued to the student (although it could easily be tweaked to masquerade as the student -- or to filter by date on its own). Again: fit of piqu...
@melodyc_lam I 100% _do_ want to restrict students, I just don't want to restrict faculty, and I don't want to have to make per-course settings changes. (And don't want to have to rely...
I'm wrestling with how Canvas classifies courses as "available" to different audiences. My measure of availability is that the course shows up in the list of courses returned by a call to:...
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