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
@GregoryMyers
Trust me that the API has much bigger headaches than this one.
I use JavaScript for most of my code and it's not an issue unless you're trying to do a strict comparison, suc...
@GregSteele
This should really be its own question rather than putting it as a reply here. It has little to do with the original question other than mentioning submissions. It's not going to ...
@bressler1995
As @jerry_nguyen wrote, when you are accessing Canvas through a browser, the cookie contains authorization information. Open up the developer tools in your browser and switch to...
@ScottWolfe2
There wasn't a step I missed when I wrote this (more than 2 years ago). However, since then, Canvas has done a lot of work with rubrics. Most of it is bad for what I need out of ...
When you edit the HTML, there will be a query parameter called custom_arc_launch_type. It has a value of embed for a full embed or bare_embed for just the video.
The %3D in between the two is just an ...
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