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ColinMurtaugh
Colin Murtaugh
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Senior Technical Architect
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API fan; Python developer; tool builder; system integrator; Canvas administrator. Technical Architect at Harvard University.

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Currently, if a user has published ePortfolio content and the user is subsequently deleted, the portfolio remains publicly available and there...
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IntroductionCanvas Data provides a wealth of information that can be used in many interesting ways, but there are a few hurdles that can make it hard to even get started:The Canvas Data API uses a dif...
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Hi @erinhmcmillan , Would it be possible to get an update on Instructure's plans for CD2? There had been an item on the March 2021 roadmap regarding CD2 (beta?) availability, but now that Marc...
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Hi -- It doesn't look like Smart Search has seen any updates in quite a long time, and the timeline/roadmap doesn't give any detail about what may be coming in the future (or indeed if this fe...
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Hi Erik --The sessionless launch URLs actually point back to Canvas rather than to the LTI tool, and then Canvas generates the regular LTI 1.1 POST request that launches the tool.  Canvas uses the ...
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Most Recent Posts

I would guess so (but I don't work for Instructure 😉). 
Sep 05, 2025 07:47 AM
We use a similar-sounding process to maintain our CD2 database (AWS Step Function; Lambdas) and once in a great while incremental queries can take a long time to process (and cause a failure on our en...
Sep 05, 2025 06:36 AM
Yes -- JS in the editor will be blocked. Your Canvas administrator would need to add FontAwesome to your instance's theme. 
Sep 04, 2025 09:39 AM
You could pull a User Provisioning Report (Account Admin > Settings > Reports > Provisioning) and use the authentication_provider_id column to determine whether the login is associated with y...
Sep 02, 2025 09:34 AM
@tyler_clair wrote:  It seems to be a trend among LTI libraries that they get created, most likely for a company, and then the main developer moves on, which is  unfortunate. Sadly I think this i...
Sep 02, 2025 09:19 AM

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