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BrianHall76 · ‎01-04-2023

Thanks @James ! I appreciate your insight. I'm always willing to use a "big hammer" approach (checking the quiz titles) 😉, but figured I'd try to use the API return values first.

BrianHall76 · ‎12-22-2022

Hi - As we're preparing for the Spring semester I'd like to be able to pull a list of all courses that have published quizzes utilizing LockDown Browser. This will allow us to remind those faculty they need to access the LDB panel on their course(s) to (re-)enable LDB on the existing objects. Using the APIs I can get the quiz object from Assignments, but when I check the properties in the JSON response it shows "require_lockdown_browser" is false most times when I can clearly see in the Canvas shell that the quiz has LDB configured (and the name of the Quiz object returns with "- Requires Respondus LockDown Browser + Webcam"). We generally still have mostly Classic Quizzes. I did find in testing that the only quiz object that correctly returned the property as "true" was a New Quiz I had in my Sandbox. Does the property only get set on New Quizzes in the Assignment object? Any insight or help is appreciated. Happy Holidays! Here's a partial code (Python). It's not doing much yet, I'm just looping through the Assignments on a course and dumping out the flag. Once that was working I'll put together the rest (feel pretty confident about that part). sURLAssigns = sURLCourse + "/assignments" payload = {'per_page' : '500'} rAssigns = requests.get(sURLAssigns, headers=headers, data=payload) rawAssigns = rAssigns.json() for assgn in rawAssigns: sURLAssign = sURLAssigns + "/" + str(assgn['id']) rAssign = requests.get(sURLAssign, headers=headers) rawAssign = rAssign.json() print(rawAssign['name']) print(" " + str(rawAssign['require_lockdown_browser'])) No error, it just returns false when the LDB config shows the Quiz has been configured for LDB. Attachment shows the LDB config and Quizzes in the Canvas shell.

BrianHall76 · ‎06-08-2022

Hi all - I wrote a Python script to update the Quiz Point value on all questions in a given Classic quiz. It does a simple loop through the questions IDs with PUT /api/v1/courses/:course_id/quizzes/:quiz_id/questions/:id and a payload of just {'question[points_possible]' : floatPointValue} The script does what I want for the points, but when I ran it against a Quiz I had just laboriously finished copy/pasting the Answer comments into 50 4-option multiple choice questions, it wiped them all out. One thing that I have noticed when I've run the script is that after it runs I have to Edit and Save the quiz for the Total Points to update. Just refreshing the Quiz page won't pick up the change. I did confirm that it is the run of the script, not the subsequent Edit/Save that wipes the questions comments out. They are gone when I Edit the quiz after the script run. I also did a test where I modified the formatting of the Question text (added bold and italics), updated the Questions, and saved the quiz. Then ran the script. It reset the formatting also. I'd prefer not to have to pull the existing question comments into a variable just to put it back into the Payload since I'm not touching that. And I'm concerned that there's just something generally wrong with my approach and I could be losing other saved changes. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong in the call that is wiping out other Question details when I'm just trying to update the Points?

BrianHall76 · ‎05-17-2022

I'm relatively new to Canvas and higher-ed, but as an Instructional Designer working with Faculty to build and maintain their courses I had an idea. What about flags/identifiers that could be applied to Canvas objects (most likely in the Modules) by an Admin or Teacher that would provide action/to-do reminders. Sometimes we're building a class on-the-fly (yeah, not best practice) week by week and there's one of the objects in a module I want the Teacher to take some action on. Maybe it's checking the content, adding a Goal, or configuring a Quiz for Respondus Monitoring - or possibly a note by the Teacher of something to change in the object before the next semester. Having the ability to provide some kind of identifier on the object (without having to modify the Title) would be helpful. These identifiers would/should be Teacher (and Admin)-facing only. Even if the identifier weren't cleared when the object was published, it shouldn't be visible to or impact the Students in any way. The flag and related commentary could be managed from the Module object's kebab menu and display one of a small subset of identifiers on the object (for example): ! - High Priority item that should be addressed (possibly change the color of the module object for the Teacher also?) ? - Question pending on the object/object's contents Chat icon - Comments flagged against the item

BrianHall76 · ‎05-06-2022

Boom! Thanks Matt. I thought I tried that .encode function at some point, but apparently not. Using your example I ended up pulling the Body off the GET request of the Source page, placing the content in a string variable, then using the encode. I did also tweak my parameters input to look like your payload. Here's my working version. Still needs the looping and some logging and error handling, but this was the big hurdle for me. import requests import json urlsrc='https://myschool.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/123/pages/NewLibrary' url = 'https://myschool.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/456/pages/Library' headers = {'Authorization' : 'Bearer ***HIDDEN***'} # Call the Source course's page and get it into a dictionary object rsrc=requests.get(urlSrc, headers=headers) jsonsrc=json.loads(rSrc.text) jsonSrcDict = json.loads(rSrc.text) # Pull the Body content from the dictionary object sBody = jsonSrcDict['body'] # Build the API call payload payload = {'wiki_page[body]' : sBody.encode('utf-8')} # Make the PUT call to Canvas r = requests.put(url, headers=headers, data = payload) # Display the results print("Response Status Code") print(r.status_code) print("Response - Body") print(r.json().get('body')) Thanks so much!

BrianHall76 · ‎05-06-2022

Hello all - Relatively new member to Canvas and the API. I have some programming background but am also new to Python. We have a course template (not a Blueprint) that we use as the source for all our core course layout. One of the Pages has content about our library. That content needs to be updated in all our active courses. (Managing the content in a more efficient way is a topic for another discussion - right now I'm just dealing with the situation at hand 😉 ) My thought was to use Python to call the Canvas API to: Access a new copy of the source library page and grab the Body content Access a target course and update the Page's Body content with the new content Add appropriate looping I've got the connection/token working and can access the source course's Page and get the Body content. BUT, when I attempt to PUT the content into the target I'm getting a strange "truncation" of the content at the first ampersand or semicolon. No error, it just stops populating the content at that character and then closes the open HTML tags?!? If it was a true issue with special/reserved character I would have expected the content to just end or some kind of error. Here's a simplified example using just a string to represent the new source content. Again, this is Python code. import requests import json url = 'https://myschool.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/4699/pages/Library' headers = {'Authorization' : 'Bearer ***HIDDEN***'} sBody="testingchecks & balances<a href=\"http://google.com\">a;b;c</a>" p = "wiki_page[body]="+sBody r = requests.put(url, params=p, headers=headers) print("Response Status Code") print(r.status_code) print("Response - Body") print(r.json().get('body')) **** OUTPUT **** Response Status Code 200 Response - Body testingchecks If I change the "&" to "and" in the string (for giggles) and re-run, I get this output. It "stops" at the first semicolon and, again, closes the tags??? Response Status Code 200 Response - Body testingchecks and balances<a href=\"http://google.com\">a</a> And, as expected, the target Page's Body has just this partial content. Ampersands and semicolons are so prevalent in HTML or page content I must be missing something. I've tried a number of different ways to encode/escape the characters without luck. I'm not even really sure at this point where in the flow the behavior is introduced so I'm struggling to troubleshoot. I did try to use Canvas API Live but something's not working with it on my side - in general, not with this specific call. Any thoughts/insights are appreciated.

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API return for Quiz assignment not correctly showing LockDown Browser config Hi - As we're preparing for the Spring semester I'd like to be able to pull a list of all courses that have published quizzes utilizing LockDown Browser. This will allow us to remind tho...	12-22-2022	359	0
API Update of Quiz Question Points removes some other properties? Hi all - I wrote a Python script to update the Quiz Point value on all questions in a given Classic quiz. It does a simple loop through the questions IDs with PUT /api/v1/courses/:course_id/q...	06-08-2022	432	0
[Modules] Teacher-Facing reminder flags on objects I'm relatively new to Canvas and higher-ed, but as an Instructional Designer working with Faculty to build and maintain their courses I had an idea. What about flags/identifiers that could be appli...	05-17-2022	160	0
Updating Page content with Python and Canvas API? Hello all - Relatively new member to Canvas and the API. I have some programming background but am also new to Python. We have a course template (not a Blueprint) that we use as the source for...	05-06-2022	1220	1

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