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chmaurer · ‎02-08-2023

I believe you want to send your PUT to /api/lti/developer_keys/<DEV_KEY_ID>/tool_configuration The url is slightly different than every other api call. Chris

chmaurer · ‎02-08-2023

We were trying to do the same exact thing, but I didn't have any luck updating only the pieces that I wanted to change (urls and domains, etc) and ended up just sending everything. It's a bit of a pain as we then have to make sure we keep everything in sync if we make a change to the prd settings for when we update beta/test. Chris

chmaurer · ‎10-17-2022

Well, that's interesting. What is also interesting is that for other subroles, I'm not seeing the same behavior. Not sure if there are implementation specific settings, or if Canvas chose to not follow the spec for other roles? But Observer, Librarian, and Grader for example, don't send along the primary and sub roles. Also, that documentation seems like it's incorrect? It has Instructor as a subrole of Learner? That sure doesn't sound right. From a technical standpoint, that spec (and implementation) doesn't make it easy for tool developers to do what I'm trying to do (i.e. figure out what role a user is in). But it probably doesn't do us any good to debate the spec here! As to your question about it being common to have a user with a TA role in one section and an Instructor role in another section of the same course...I have no idea! I'm looking at it with my developer blinders on. Technically it is possible, so I'm trying to account for that case in my role resolving code. Does it actually happen in real life? Not sure. Chris

chmaurer · ‎10-10-2022

We have a bunch of locally developed LTI tools and we are in the process of switching them from 1.1 to 1.3. We have a few tools where we want to differentiate between an Instructor and a TeachingAssistant, but that is not easily done since the one is a sub-role of the other. Our use case is to grant the highest level of access that the user could have, so we start with admin and work our way down. So, for example when an instructor launches, the role data has http://purl.imsglobal.org/vocab/lis/v2/membership#Instructor and our tool can assume that the user is an instructor. But, when a TA launches, we see http://purl.imsglobal.org/vocab/lis/v2/membership#Instructor,http://purl.imsglobal.org/vocab/lis/v2/membership/Instructor#TeachingAssistant ...if I check to see if the user is an instructor before I check to see if they are a TA, it will come back as instructor (which is bad). Well, maybe I should check to see if a user is a TA first then? Well, no, that doesn't work either. If a user is a TA in one section but an Instructor in another section, we want them to come across as an instructor. So, what are my options here? Is there some other magical piece of data I should be looking at? Can I set a flag in my tool json that tells it to only send the sub-role? Hoping someone has some advice/guidance! Chris

chmaurer · ‎03-10-2016

Chris, I haven't had any luck changing the default email. When you say: PUT https://myinstance.instructure.com/api/v1/users/user_id_goes_here?default_email_id=new_email_id_from_communication_channels Do you mean the communication channel id? I've tried that, as well as the actual email address and none of them seem to take. I get back a 200, but the original email is still the default. Chris

chmaurer · ‎01-21-2016

Can you provide the xml configuration you used to get this to work? I haven't had any luck with it. Chris

chmaurer · ‎11-03-2015

We're interested in something similar here at Indiana University. We have had some conversations internally about packaging up our code into a standalone library, but it hasn't gotten any priority. I think there are also some conversations that need to happen regarding licensing of code and so forth. But, if you get to something first, we might be willing to take it for a test drive (and potentially contribute if there are gaps), but that may also depend on licensing and things that are determined by folks higher up the org chart! Chris

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