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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...
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@CanvasNovice
With a weighted gradebook, there is no extra credit until you have graded assignments in assignment categories with weights adding to more than 100%. Canvas does not parse the assig...
@EdithMurillo
Have you looked at GraphQL?
Under the term object, there is a coursesConnection and under that is a sectionsConnection. You will have to mess with pagination, but it should be a lo...
This is the second question today about essentially the same thing. The other thread has a suggestion about using Canvas Data 2 and weblogs to search through the information. I mention that here but g...
This question is similar to another one from today where someone wanted a report on teacher activity and when they deleted or hid items.
@Jeff_F gave an answer here about use page views (I mention...
@CharleyMarsh
Not directly, but there are lots of ways to get some of the information.
Within a browser, you can do the following:
The user Access Report works for faculty as well as students. It...
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