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Autofill Maximum Rubric Ratings Introduction This script adds a "Max" button to the Pts column header in a rubric in SpeedGrader. When you click the Max button, the script will go through your rubric and assign the maxim...	04-03-2022	535	3
How to Anonymize New Analytics Have you ever wanted to do a live demonstration of New Analytics with a real course but couldn't because of student privacy issues? Fake students in a fake course don't generate realistic usage. New ...	07-11-2021	896	7
Sorting the All Courses list Many of the feature requests involve the ability to sort the information that Canvas provides. One of those requests was to sort the list of courses that you get by clicking on the Courses global nav...	07-14-2019	2924	12
Using Calculated Values in the Text of Formula Questions The examples give a technical explanation and some knowledge of the browser's developer tools, HTML, and JavaScript are beneficial for understanding. There's a not-too-technical way explained before ...	03-07-2019	2322	4
Removing Missing and Late Labels In GET THE RED INK OUT OF MY GRADEBOOK. The Sequel., laurakgibbs makes a passionate plea to remove the missing and late labels that come along with the new gradebook. @kona&nbs...	01-10-2019	15173	25
Assigning Intra-Group Peer Reviews Quick Install For those power users who are impatient, here are the quick install steps. Install the Tampermonkey browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari Install the Intra-Group Peer...	04-11-2018	16680	23
Canvas Style Guide: CSS Variables This blog post was written in response to a discussion started by lph called Color Variables. The Canvas Style Guide has a section on colors and makes reference to Color Variab...	03-11-2018	4288	12
Permissions Page Role Sorting Update August 9, 2018 Canvas has provided their own, much more awesome, solution to this with the July 14, 2018, release. Documentation is available in the Canvas Admin Guide What user roles a...	09-30-2017	2484	8
Quiz Questions Groups and the API @erik_happaerts asked the following question in the Community: Export results question group Our students need to take a test in which both the final result as the sc...	06-22-2017	1126	7
Hiding Content from Certain Roles Some people want to hide menu items from certain roles, while leaving it there for others. The ultimate solution is probably Canvas Permissions and Granularity Feature Ideas, but in the meantime ther...	06-13-2017	3901	17
Finding user account creation details In the question User Creation Report , @lecia_sims1 asked Is there a report I can run that will show when a user was added and how? Ex. I want to know who was added by SIS and who was a...	06-02-2017	3408	10
Sorting the Find a Rubric dialog This document will show how to move the current course to the top of the "Find a Rubric" dialog and optionally sort and filter the information to make it easier to find rubrics. The before lis...	04-30-2017	5952	20
How much does the Community drive Canvas? For those reading the title and wondering if I'm going to answer that question -- the answer is no. But if you want to see how the Community influences, impacts, or is related to Canvas, you might be...	04-19-2017	1120	25
Better Group Discussion Navigation I've written a user script that provides better navigation when working with group discussions. This document and script are primarily intended for instructors, TAs, or other people who can see multi...	04-06-2017	6716	17
Obtaining a list of Admin Users with their Roles On September 16, 2017, Canvas added an Admin CSV option to the Provisioning Report. It provides most of the information here and is built-into Canvas rather than being an external solution. It does r...	03-16-2017	5602	12
Importing Rubrics from a Spreadsheet 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 turn i...	02-12-2017	48190	25
Adjust All Assignment Dates on One Page 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...	11-23-2016	103236	25
Sorting Dashboard Course Cards December 8, 2018 - No Longer Needed Canvas has released their own solution for sorting the dashboard course cards. You should remove this script and use their solution. Things should con...	10-08-2016	35551	25
QuizWiz: Enhancements to SpeedGrader and Quizzes QuizWiz is a user script developed by @James and @avi_naiman that adds speed enhancements to quizzes, assignments, and discussions within SpeedGrader. It also provides a...	09-09-2016	32057	25
Unassigning the Front Page Update: November 18, 2017 Canvas has provided their own solution! The solution for Canvas is from the list of all pages, click on the admin cog next to the course that is currently the front...	08-28-2016	5698	25

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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.