Hi Robert, The short answer is no--Canvas doesn't provide an out-of-the-box way for you to hide content from a student taking a quiz. Even if it did, depending on your school's settings, students coul...

Hi Chris, I'll take up the mantle of being that "someone else." At my institution, we've had to deal with these sorts of duel-role considerations with LTI tools a few times. Unfortunately, from what I...

Hi @rcreadii  If you're creating an app that is going to be in use by multiple users, you need to use the OAuth 2 authentication flow to obtain access tokens. Asking users to create a personal access ...

Honestly, it's going to depend on your team's skills and ability to use other libraries. If you're implementing the full LTI Core and Assignment and Grade Service (AGS) specs for your tool from scratc...

Unfortunately, the answer is "it depends." While Canvas does send a stable, unique ID for each user (in addition to your SIS User IDs which should also be stable), some tools rely on the lis_person_co...

Problem statement: When educators use Canvas Commons, a common scenario involves importing course materials into a specific course. Currently, when a teacher initiates the import process by clicking o...

Hi @ShannonClarke, Canvas lets you integrate LTI apps in a few different ways: Course-level installation: LTI apps can be installed directly into courses. If you're sure that your app will only be use...

Hi @ShannonClarke, Your use case is precisely what LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) is designed for! LTI is a standard that allows external web applications to integrate with learning management ...

Hi @casey_carroll, From my understanding of the AGS spec's Score Publish Service, there isn't support for doing bulk grade updates. Likewise, Canvas's implementation of AGS doesn't appear to have an e...

Hi @conorepo, It'd be very unusual for a tool integrated into Canvas to sidestep any kind of LTI integration. The only way to do this without implementing the LTI spec would be to install the tool thr...