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@dtod  Ok, I see what you are referring to now.  Have you set up an organization on the Edu App Center yet?  There you can make an allow list for the apps.  Then, you can use the token from your organization account in Edu App Center to restrict the apps that users can install from that in Canvas.  Then, Canvas will only show apps there that you have set as allowed for users to install on their own. How do I create and manage organizations in the Edu App Center?  How do I manage an allow list in the Edu App Center?  How do I manage an Edu App Center allow list in Canvas?  The Add button that I thought you were referring to is the one that appears if you have permission when you click View App Configurations. ... View more

@dtod  Are you sure the permissions were sufficient for you to hide the Add button in the Course Settings for Apps?  We have our Teacher role set to not have permission to Manage LTIs and the Add button doesn't show for them.  We don't have any custom JavaScript/CSS to hide it either.  The only apps they are able to add are those that are on our approved apps list for the Edu App Center. As for the import issue, that is concerning and seems like something that is a bug rather than something that should be a feature request.  I have voted in support of your idea though and hopefully they will fix that considering it is allowing users to bypass Permissions and add potentially unapproved apps. ... View more

This unfortunately is one of the things we have to deal with when it comes to custom code.  I've seen in past InstructureCon videos that the developers warn that custom code can break with updates and it is own responsibility to test our customizations as new releases come out.  They also suggest testing on Beta server before new releases so you have a chance to catch issues before it gets to production. As a side note, both of the customizations you mentioned sound like things that would be better managed through Permissions. The Teacher role can be set so that they don't have the right to Manage LTIs (add, edit, delete).  This would eliminate the need to hide the Add button for that.  You can also make it so they don't have the right to Manage Users.  This would take away their ability to add users in the UI.  It is always better to use Permissions to restrict access to features when possible because then it also carries over to API access.  If you only hide the items in the UI, but they still have the Permission, then they could potentially use the API to circumvent what you are trying to prevent.  Also, depending on how you are hiding it, there may be easy ways for users to restore what you are hiding. ... View more

You could use the Update course settings API call to adjust the default due time for the course. Here is the parameter you would need to worry about for this: default_due_time   string Set the default due time for assignments. This is the time that will be pre-selected in the Canvas user interface when setting a due date for an assignment. It does not change when any existing assignment is due. It should be given in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format. The default is “23:59:59”. Use “inherit” to inherit the account setting.   ... View more

@RaianeSilva  The customizations you can make in the mobile apps are extremely limited compared to what you can do in the browser.  Unfortunately, modifying the text for menus isn't a part of what can be customized with the theme mobile CSS/JS files.  Here is a quote from the documentation: "Mobile CSS/JS files   are only applied to user content displayed within the Canvas iOS or Android apps, as well as in third-party apps using the Canvas API " How do I upload custom JavaScript and CSS files to an account?  ... View more

@FedorArkhipov  It doesn't look like it is shown in the example of the API documentation, but you can get that value by using "Get course settings" ... View more

@michael5    $(document ).ready()  would correspond with a readyState of "interactive" or "complete".  So, the page may still be in an "interactive" readyState meaning the DOM is loaded, but some content may still be loading based on sub-resources.  This would explain the inconsistent experience with that. However, as you already discovered, $(window).bind( "load", function() { } ) would correspond with a readyState of "complete" only since the window load event is only triggered after all content has loaded, including the sub-resources.  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/load_event.  Since you are already using the load event, it doesn't seem necessary to change to checking when the readyState is "complete" since it would have the same effect. ... View more

@michael5  I'm glad you found a workaround that is working for you.  I would suggest looking into the Get module item sequence API call to see if this can make your code a bit more efficient when creating your previous and next buttons.  Based on the Canvas network traffic, it looks like it uses this API call to determine the previous and next module items for the previous/next buttons.  This way you don't have to filter through the module items to find the appropriate ones. Also, I haven't tested this yet myself, but I'm curious if the Document.readyState may help with knowing when all components are loaded.  If you add an event listener to check for when the readyState is "complete", this may allow you to use and manipulate the native Canvas previous/next buttons rather than needing to make your own. ... View more

@themidiman  I'm glad that solved it for you!  I guess there must have been an update since that other forum post. ... View more

@themidiman  You're welcome!  In the options variable, try changing 'Content-Type' to 'contentType' to see if that helps. ... View more

Since there are two required parameters for this request, have you tried the following for the data? var data = { 'enrollment': { 'user_id': user_id, 'type': 'StudentEnrollment' } }; If you are going to enroll users as different types, you may want to add a parameter to your function for the enrollment type.  ... View more

This would be really helpful, especially as we are trying to transition install apps from LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3 ... View more

@TungNguyen  When you are on the People page, if you click the filter for "All Roles", you should be able to see a count of the number of each type that are in the course.  I'm not sure if there is a limit at which this number doesn't show, but this might help with the People page at least ... View more

Additional bulk operations would be nice to more efficiently make changes. For clarification, @mterborg is your request just about "Pages" or is it course content in general?  I thought it was about course content in general, but it looks like this was titled as a request related to Pages. ... View more

I agree that this is needed and we have also tried to develop some of our own workarounds to manage it as best we can with the current system. In the past we would create rubrics at the sub-account level.  However, this has become problematic as the list becomes very long and there is no easy way to organize rubrics at the sub-account level and you can't remove old ones once they are used for grading.  Thus, we started making the rubrics within our blueprints so that when they copy out to a course, they are their own independent copy instead of being linked to a master copy of the rubric.  So now when we need to replace a rubric we can move it to a course that we are using as a repository for past versions and create the updated version in the blueprint to go out to future courses. We also have outcomes created at the root account level and centrally managed by only a small group of people to ensure we use consistent naming conventions and associate them with the appropriate rubrics and assignments in blueprint courses.  To help manage the old outcomes, we started making groups with Archive in the name so that when an outcome is no longer in use, it will get moved to the Archive folder so the data can still be retained. ... View more

Based on the Google Apps Script documentation, it looks like you need to parse your response variable to get the JSON format: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/external#work_with_json // Make request to API and get response before this point. var json = response . getContentText (); var data = JSON . parse ( json ); Logger . log ( data . title ); ... View more

That sounds great about your outcome project.  We are looking into developing an outcomes related project too that provides improved reporting by program.  It would be nice if outcomes offered the ability to include additional tags for things like this. We are also looking into UDOIT.  UCF has created multiple great products as open-source projects and I hope to build my first LTI soon using their template as a starting point. I'm also working on a project that allows instructors to "copy" announcements from an old course to a current course so that they still appear as the author and they can set a delayed post date/time.   ... View more

You're welcome 🙂 ... View more

We haven't deleted student accounts at our school yet.  We continue to leave them in the system in case they enroll in future programs. I agree that overtime, this list definitely becomes a lot longer and it would be nice to clean it up some more. We haven't used it yet, but we were investigating the suspend user account setting that was added for helping to manage some of our local/guest accounts: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Guide/How-do-I-suspend-and-reactivate-users-in-an-account/ta-p/504141  I would be interested to know how others are managing their user accounts and if anyone is currently using the suspend user account setting. ... View more