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czehner1 · ‎12-07-2022

Also experiencing this same issue. Tried an instance-wide call (/api/v1/media_objects) with the same results. There is NO documentation around Media Objects and would love to understand if this is an issue where I do not understand what the API is supposed to gather or if it is broken. Is anyone able to shed any sort of light on this API?

czehner1 · ‎10-01-2021

Hi, Bringing an interesting topic to the table. Our institution is quite new to Canvas, and are figuring out a lot of things as we go. We have quite a few vendors that request API access and most go through the channels of setting up a developer key and securely passing on that key to them. This is the way we would prefer. However, a few vendors are requesting to use user-generated bearer tokens instead. We would like to keep things secure and only give them access to what they need, so we generally do not want to generate a token from our Account Admin account and give them full access. To combat this, we ask them to give us a list of permissions they would need to accomplish this, and set up a Role, that we tie with a user, to which is given an admin with that restricted role. (Doing so also requires that we generate a unique alias email since Canvas doesn't like users sharing emails.) Then we log in as that user, generate the token, and send it over to the vendor. The issue is, the vendors don't really know what permissions are needed to create that role in Canvas, so they end up just sending out the API endpoints that they need. I don't know exactly which permissions grant those APIs, if there's any dependency needed from certain permissions. Are we setting ourselves up to overcrowd the amount of permissions in Canvas? You can imagine the headache this is already starting to generate. My question is, how do other schools handle these requests? Are we taking too cautious of an approach? Any help is appreciated.

czehner1 · ‎09-28-2021

@aaron_bahmer So, you see the "grades" section under enrollments, but only see the "html_url" value, but not the 'current/final/unposted grade/score' values? Are you logged in as an administrator that has permissions to view grades across the account? That might be the only reason I could see as to why you might not be seeing the full API.

czehner1 · ‎07-23-2021

Hello! Having a bit of trouble with the REST API. We are attempting to get a singular user from an API, but need to do so from a specific field, that field being the login_id. We have found success is using this call: {domain}/api/v1/users/sis_user_id:{sis_id} but when we try to do the same with login_id instead of sis_user_id, we get a message saying "The specified resource does not exist." Is there another way we can phrase this call to make it work? I haven't found anything on the community forums nor documentation as of yet. Thanks!

czehner1 · ‎06-08-2021

Thank you James! Worked perfectly!

czehner1 · ‎06-08-2021

Hi James, Thank you for your response! I think the one I am looking at is https://{domain}/api/v1/courses/{courseID}/students/submissions which should contain all the necessary information according to the documentation. Unfortunately, I get an 'unathorized' error upon accessing that API. The API token that I am using through a user profile is set to Account Admin, which has every permission enabled for them. Is there another higher permission level that has this ability, or am I authenticating the wrong way?

czehner1 · ‎06-08-2021

Hello all! I am somewhat new to the Canvas APIs and am working to get a little additional information from the grades via the enrollment API. I am aware of the API to get a users final/current grades via ( https://{domain}/api/v1/courses/{courseID}/users/{userID}?include[]=enrollments ), but this does not give me all the information that I need, such as when the grades were submitted, or who posted them (if there are multiple instructors in a course.) I notice that there is a html url within the enrollments API that does not seem to be accessible via the API: ( https://{domain}/api/v1/courses/{courseID}/grades/{userID}) Is there something similar to this through the APIs or is this potentially something that can be accessed through the API? Thank you, Cody Zehner Kent State Educational Technology Support

czehner1 · ‎03-23-2021

It would be awesome to have a field in the Create a Course/User menus for the SIS ID, and make it mandatory. This would help eliminate overlap/errors for manually created courses and SIS Imports.

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Vendor User Bearer Token Endpoint Security Hi, Bringing an interesting topic to the table. Our institution is quite new to Canvas, and are figuring out a lot of things as we go. We have quite a few vendors that request API access and most g...	10-01-2021	350
API Get User by Login_ID Hello! Having a bit of trouble with the REST API. We are attempting to get a singular user from an API, but need to do so from a specific field, that field being the login_id. We have found succe...	07-23-2021	1873
Dedicated Grades API Hello all! I am somewhat new to the Canvas APIs and am working to get a little additional information from the grades via the enrollment API. I am aware of the API to get a users final/c...	06-08-2021	1156
Input SIS ID for Manually Created Courses It would be awesome to have a field in the Create a Course/User menus for the SIS ID, and make it mandatory. This would help eliminate overlap/errors for manually created courses and SIS Imports.	03-23-2021	494

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