Is there a way to know which deep link required authentication?

When a user tries to access a Canvas a course that requires authentication, she is forwarded to the login page. We would like to know which course the user tries to access and perform some actions in...

Group search is very slow when having large number of groups

I am writing this post as I think it might be useful for other Canvas-users, but I am also interested in hearing others experience with courses with large amount of students and groups. We are pla...

Wordcloud in Canvas

One of our instructors wanted wordclouds in Canvas. I've made a solution using Word Cloud Generator (GitHub - jasondavies/d3-cloud: Create word clouds in JavaScript. ) and Google sprea...

Interactive YouTube transcript

I have made some javascript code to support interactive YouTube transcripts. A working example can be seen here: http://www.erlendthune.com/yt/ytexample.html Look here for instructions on h...

PHP LTI plugin for H5P

I've made a simple PHP LTI plugin for H5P, described here: http://erlendthune.blogspot.no/2017/05/simple-lti-service-made-with-php-i-used.html I need a way to list the H5P embed links availab...

Why does the recipient list for past messages change?

Recipient list in the original message in a conversation seems to change when adding more people in a reply. I.e. 1. Logged in as Martin, create a message to Trygve. Trygve receives the message: ...

/api/v1/users/:user_id/files/quota UNAUTHORIZED

I am trying to use /api/v1/users/:user_id/files/quota documented here Canvas LMS REST API Documentation​ F.ex. https://ikt.instructure.com/api/v1/users/312/files/quota Even when I am logge...

Notify instructor button in group discussions

@Kelley L. Meeusen thought the functionality below could be of interest to Canvas developers. View the original thread here: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/4541?commentID=66234&et=notifica...

Announcements never go away when comments are disabled

Our course instructors did not want the students to be able to comment on announcements, so we turned that possibility of in the course. However, this causes the blue circle on the students and teach...

API calls fail when user is observer

When our custom javascript do the following api call logged in as observer, I get an internal server error. Are observers not allowed to do api calls, or is this a bug in the server? https://ikt.i...