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James
James Jones
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Professor of Mathematics
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Bio:
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...
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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<!-- -->...
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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 it...
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December 8, 2018 -&nbsp;No Longer NeededCanvas has released their own solution for sorting the dashboard course cards. You&nbsp;should remove this script and use their solution. Things should continue to work u...
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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 ...
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@moonshot&nbsp; Provided the person with the access token has permission to call the endpoint, self does work for the account for this call. GET &lt;instance&gt;/api/v1/accounts/self/users If you try to call it ...
Mar 14, 2024 6:39:47 PM
@hhoyt1&nbsp; Most of the third party tools set tool to be visible because why wouldn't you want to install their great biology app for all of your history courses? If you use their configuration, you're g...
Mar 13, 2024 6:59:25 PM
Greg, in our case, we had a faculty who was posting assignments without warning and then expecting them to be done the same day. When the students complained to the dean, he wanted to know when detail...
Mar 13, 2024 6:46:35 PM
@AndrewYardy&nbsp; Before you rule out the access report completely, be aware that there is information downloaded by Canvas that it does not show on the web. If you look at the JSON that is delivered, it ...
Mar 12, 2024 6:16:19 PM
@MichaelMarkley&nbsp; When you create a group assignment, there is an option to assign grades individually. It's a checkbox right under the one to make it a group assignment. See the&nbsp;How do I assign an ass...
Mar 12, 2024 4:08:30 PM

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