About
James
James Jones
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Professor of Mathematics
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I'm James Jones. My full-time job is teaching mathematics at a community college, with an extra-duty assignment that involves Canvas.
I hate repetitive tasks and will spend 13 hours writing a computer program to automate something that takes 5 minutes to do. This often benefits others in the form of Canvancements, which are my Canvas Enhancments that I freely contribute to the Canvas Community.
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Update March 15, 2020.
Version 2d is now available. The only changes were to remove the mute column (Canvas deprecated that functionality in January 2020) and add a points column to change the point...
May 27, 2020, update (version 15):Another week, another update. This time I installed a new linter to check for crud and subtle issues with the code. It turned up a lot of little things and at least o...
I've written an Rubric Importer user script that will allow you to copy a rubric from a spreadsheet like Excel or Google Sheets and paste it into a textbox inside Canvas and then automatically tur...
Updated November 29, 2016, to reflect Version 3The spreadsheet now processes group discussions. They take a lot longer to process since you have to make calls for each group.If you were a user of the ...
December 8, 2018 - No Longer NeededCanvas has released their own solution for sorting the dashboard course cards. You should remove this script and use their solution. Things should continue to work u...
Most Recent Posts
@cheri_masters
If the intent is to automatically have parents observe students, then I would look into SIS imports. There is an archived thread [Archived] Observer accounts? Bulk creation? from 2...
@cheri_masters
Can a list be generated -- yes. Is it easy or built-in -- no! Is it worth it -- up to you.
The information contained in the User Observer CSV from the provisioning report does not ...
@RobertoCarrasco
You will need to reach out to your institution for a definitive answer. This is a global community of Canvas users without access to your particular institution and policies and ...
@JeffreyBush
Sounds like you're in a good position to get what you need.
A tip to get you started is that scores are tied to submissions, so look at the Submissions API. You can fetch submiss...
I did find out there is a way to get the IDs when the courses are copied, so you don't have to rely on names. Hopefully the reporting group has that taken care of, but I discovered the way to get ...
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