About
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Most Recent Posts
@Rcrodriguez1976
Here's a quick answer. This is not directly supported.
The long version is that it might be possible if you had access to Canvas Data, which contains a copy of all assignment...
I just noticed (after I hit reply) that Canvas does not give you accessible tables. Tsk! Tsk!
I was wondering what the headings weren't in bold even though I told it to mark the row as a header ro...
@DavidGarcia4, as you have probably figured out, Canvas doesn't support anything other than a decimal answer (including integers) for a numeric question.
You can fake it using short answer / ...
@jclendenning
My scripts haven't changed and Tampermonkey doesn't require IT login credentials in and of itself. That makes it sound like it's something that your institution has impl...
@oneilllj, you made it sound like your people knew some basic LaTeX. With some guidance, they could probably learn the parts they need fairly quickly.
You can use the equation editor and then swit...
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