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mlewis23 · ‎02-28-2022

Brilliant! Thanks James. Matt

mlewis23 · ‎02-24-2022

While trying to edit the public course settings through the API we used the following call and parameters: 'PUT /api/v1/courses/:id' is_public, is_public_to_auth_users, public_syllabus, public_syllabus_to_auth However, after setting all four of these settings to 'false', there is a checkbox on the Course Settings page within the course that remained checked: 'Include this course in the public course index' Even though the visibility is set to 'Course' (is_public = false) the course remains on the course search page, I'm assuming because of that checkbox. Has anyone else had this issue or found the parameter to edit that checkbox through the API? thanks, Matt

mlewis23 · ‎08-19-2020

We just found this issue out as well. Appears that any account level user can turn Ally on/off for all courses. Have you found any solution yet? The 'Turnitin Admin Settings' lti has similar issues. We are exploring the javascript options. But honestly, that's a bad solution and a last resort since it is only hides it from the browser and doesn't address the real issue of access. Looked into the xml config settings, but have only found a way to limit to 'admin' which is what it already is doing of course.

mlewis23 · ‎03-30-2018

I haven't run the linked py script yet, but running a script to scrub the api for all tabs, modules, and assignments in all courses in all terms is clearly not a good long term solution. Kudos however to @nardell for figuring out all of those loops!

mlewis23 · ‎03-30-2018

The CanvasData external_tool_activation tables are doing just that, showing activation which is the same as the LTI Report. Note that the report is defined as showing "LTI usage information". This is incorrect or misleading at best information. Canvas should at a minimum edit this report definition. The CanvasData table title more accurately reflects the data, it is activation information not usage.

mlewis23 · ‎10-31-2017

No I still don't have confirmation.

mlewis23 · ‎10-12-2017

I'd call this a bug fix not a new feature. If you can simply check a box to see responses to users, the results are NOT anonymous, making this a bug! This should have been fixed years ago.

mlewis23 · ‎09-01-2017

Heard back from Canvas L2 and it sounds like the outcome edit should be working. Here is the Curl used by the L2 support: curl -X PUT \ https://[institution].instructure.com/api/v1/outcomes/56 -H 'authorization: Bearer token' \ -F 'display_name=Changed name'

mlewis23 · ‎08-11-2017

Anyone have any luck with the new Update Outcomes endpoint in the API (release notes 6-24-2017) that should allow for text edits to an assessed outcome? Outcomes - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation I'm getting back a 200 status code, but no changes take place. I'm not sure if it is worth troubleshooting if nobody else has it working. thanks.

mlewis23 · ‎04-25-2017

Our only connection to Kaltura is through the embedded Canvas integration. So, the upload or direct recorder on a Canvas content page, discussion, assignment, syllabus page or message is our only link to Kaltura. We don't have any other access to Kaltura.

mlewis23 · ‎04-25-2017

Rather than going through the url where you'll can also get url requests for thumbnails as well as the video, in the Request tables from Canvas data there is a field titled "web_application_controller". One of the classifications in that field is 'media_objects'. I believe these records are showing when a Kaltura video is played. The url for these records end in "/info" such as "/media_objects/m-5c4kXs9amqjdBa/info". Anyone know what other web_application_controller programs are marked with the 'media_object' classification? Is it just Kaltura?

mlewis23 · ‎04-21-2017

With how Kaltura and Canvas are integrated, we don't have a Kaltura account to access their API and Canvas does not provide direct access to the database. However we did just hear back from our Canvas rep and what looks like the best solution will be to use the Canvas Data for requests. We would need to filter to all request urls with '/media_objects/', and then can get a count of all 'watched' videos. A slightly different question, but still a valuable one (if not more valuable). I looked at the Canvas Report for External Tools, but didn't see anything for Kaltura. Anyone know if the Canvas Data 'external_tool_activiation_dim' file has anything different?

mlewis23 · ‎04-21-2017

Thanks Gerald. I was hoping that there was a less brute force method than extracting all the urls, but since it doesn't look like any of this information is available in either the API or Canvas Data, I think you're approach is it. The links to your python script appear to be behind a locked github door. Are you able to share it in a different way? With our set up it looks like Kaltura videos are referenced on page as: href="https://community.canvaslms.com/media_objects/m-AbCdEfGhIj". We will need to filter to the directory /media_objects/. Do you know where the Syllabus content is housed? I don't think it comes in with the Course Pages, but maybe I missed it. I suppose we will also need to sort through Assignment pages to get a full count.

mlewis23 · ‎04-19-2017

We would like to answer the question: "How many Kaltura videos have been uploaded in Canvas by faculty?". Anyone have any suggestions on where we might start to look for this information? Thanks, Matt

mlewis23 · ‎03-31-2017

Just found CommMessages in the documentation.

mlewis23 · ‎03-30-2017

Anyone have experience with trying to extract notifications out of Canvas?

mlewis23 · ‎01-10-2017

I'm looking for examples to better understand the use and application of xAPI. Has anyone created any projects with xAPI yet? Willing to share?

mlewis23 · ‎10-14-2016

We just released a new version of Threadz. Besides some boring back end upgrades, a new set of network diagrams have been added as well as a list of all non-participating students for each discussion. I've recorded a new demo video (with sound this time) and uploaded some new images that can be found at: Threadz https://threadz.ewu.edu/index.php" title="https://threadz.ewu.edu/index.php

mlewis23 · ‎06-07-2016

OK, found where the url came from: https://[domain]/api/v1/courses/[courseid]/assignments/[assignmentid]/submissions This yields a json file with attachment information. Maybe it is there, but I don't see this labeled anywhere in the documentation so here is an example of the data. [{ "id": 999, "body": null, "url": null, "grade": null, "score": null, "submitted_at": "2016-05-27T00:50:05Z", "assignment_id": 9999, "user_id": 99999, "submission_type": "online_upload", "workflow_state": "submitted", "grade_matches_current_submission": true, "graded_at": null, "grader_id": null, "attempt": 1, "excused": null, "late": true, "preview_url": "https://[doamin]/courses/[courseid]/assignments/[assignmentid]/submissions/[otherid]?preview=1&version=2", "attachments": [ { "id": 999999, "folder_id": 9999999, "display_name": "file name.docx", "filename": "filename.docx", "content-type": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document", "url": "https://[domain]/files/[courseid]/download?download_frd=1&verifier=[verifer hash]", "size": 99, "created_at": "2016-05-27T00:50:03Z", "updated_at": "2016-05-27T00:50:05Z", "unlock_at": null, "locked": false, "hidden": false, "lock_at": null, "hidden_for_user": false, "thumbnail_url": null, "modified_at": "2016-05-27T00:50:03Z", "locked_for_user": false, "preview_url": "/api/v1/crocodoc_session[other hash info]"} ] }, ] I do really like the fact that the content-type, filename, and size are also available. So at least now I do have a way of downloading all the documents, but I'd still prefer to be able to download a zip of all submissions rather than stepping through each submission for each assignment for each course for each term.

mlewis23 · ‎06-07-2016

I did find a thread in the community very much related posted by @raodm (Is there an API to download contents (not metadata) of a file from a given assignment? ). But I'm not sure where the url was taken from. Is this from the Submissions API? Will that yield submissions for more than one user? We are moving to a new plagiarism platform and we need to download all the papers that have been submitted to Canvas.

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