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maguire
Gerald Maguire
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Professor emeritus
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383
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I was the professor for Computer Communications at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden during the period 1994-2023. As of 2023-04-01, I am now professor emeritus.

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I have been encouraged to make the contents of my sandbox more visible, it can be found at https://kth.instructure.com/courses/11  One of my goals has been to be able to use software to interact with ...
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Another instructor has asked about quiz questions where the answer is based upon the student clicking on an area in an image.(The instructor has a lot of questions with such answers in another LMS and...
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Today there is an API to store custom data for a given user: PUT /v1/courses/{course_id}/custom_gradebook_columns/{id}/data/{user_id}However, there is a need for the equivalent GET/v1/courses/{course_...
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What I have learned thus far is that difficult as it was to learn, using the API to directly instantiate quiz questions via the current Canvas  API works. An additional advantage is that these questio...
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When will there be details of the Quizzes.Next API or will it not have an API but only QTI import and export?I am trying to decide if it worthwhile trying to migrate some existing quizzes from another...
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Most Recent Posts

Note that there is still a problem with the user setting their initial language preference. This should be something that the user can do when they first login to Canvas and the method of doing this n...
Aug 13, 2024 6:22:32 AM
Unfortunately, Canvas uses a course's course locale to both set the language of the HTML content and the language of the GUI. These are of course two different things - except in the case of a cou...
Aug 13, 2024 6:12:33 AM
I now have a python script that adds (some) language tags to resources in a Canvas course room. You can find the script language_tag_a_course.py at https://github.com/gqmaguirejr/Canvas-tools . Curren...
Jun 27, 2024 8:15:05 AM
Is all of the content in a given course room in the same language? And if it is a language course, so you do not mind if the GUI switches to this language - you can set the language for the course. Th...
Jun 5, 2024 11:56:14 PM
I would like to thank @jleonard99 for your question and @jleonard99 and @James for your replies. This helped me solve a problem of how to show marked-up text in a Canvas wikipage where the...
May 20, 2024 7:23:16 AM

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