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julian_ebeli · ‎11-07-2022

Could you make 2 versions of the assignment, each with a different rubric?

julian_ebeli · ‎11-07-2022

Hi Anindita. Intuitively, I think you have some sort of typo in your IDs. Some things to try. Check you don't have spaces around the email address. Or try adding the person using the logi_id option rather than email.

julian_ebeli · ‎03-20-2022

Hi @kmahaffy, This is an interesting observation. We have thousands of courses in which all the students are concluded, from past years. The " Hide courses without students " button doesn't hide them! Cheers Julian

julian_ebeli · ‎02-02-2022

Here I've selected hide courses with 0 students and show only blueprints. Blueprints can not have students, so I can't see any bluerints. If you click "show only blueprints" it should turn "hide 0 student courses" filter off.

julian_ebeli · ‎12-16-2021

@mpfaff1 Hi, I think you've made a really compelling case for Canvas to take this issue seriously.

julian_ebeli · ‎11-14-2021

On a course by course basis you can print the grades page. You need to open all the conversations and rubrics to make them visible in the print. Your computer may allow you to direct the print to a PDF file. There is no option to do this for all the courses at once that I'm aware of.

julian_ebeli · ‎11-03-2021

I did what you said and added feedback to the docs. Thanks for the advise. As always these innocuous little things are really workflow bugs. In this case the app (Canvas) is making a judgement about SIS enroll v self enroll without controlling the interface properly. SIS provisioning is not created by giving a course a SIS ID otherwise the +People button should also disappear right? Like who is going to add people manually to a course that has a SIS ID and is presumably getting its people via SIS provisioning? There is no necessary conection between a course having a SIS ID and it being provisioned by SIS. I (mis)use SIS IDs to group courses into categories so I can find them easier. I also (mis)use terms to do the same thing. Cheers

julian_ebeli · ‎11-02-2021

PS. Can anyone find the documentation for this? Add SIS ID lose Self-enrollment. I couldn't

julian_ebeli · ‎11-02-2021

@Chris_Hofer Thanks it was the sis id. Removed it and the link re-appeared. I use the sis id to help me group courses even though they are not provisioned by sis. I'll have to rethink this practice. cheers

julian_ebeli · ‎11-01-2021

My course is not displaying the self-enrollment url. It should be just under the 'fewer options' switch. What is the cause of this? And what is the solution? When I created the new course it was there, after I copied content into it, it was gone. It is also not present in the source course. I tried this trick https://canvas/api/v1/courses/[course_id]?include[]=self_enrollment_code. It says: "self_enrollment_code" : null self-enrollment-url is missing Thanks

julian_ebeli · ‎10-11-2021

Thanks Jerry. You've taught me a heap about the graphql interface.

julian_ebeli · ‎10-11-2021

Hi Your regex wants there to be a space after CONCAT All the spaces in the regex are required in the answer. You can delete them or make them optional.

julian_ebeli · ‎10-10-2021

Hi I'm having a problem get data for a specific user from the graphql API my graphql query is: query MyQuery($courseID: ID!) { course(id: $courseID) { enrollmentsConnection { nodes { type user(id: $userID) { _id name } } } } } variables are: {"courseID": redacted, "userID": redacted} and the response is: { "errors": [ { "message": "Field 'user' doesn't accept argument 'id'", "locations": [ { "line": 6, "column": 14 } ], "path": [ "query MyQuery", "course", "enrollmentsConnection", "nodes", "user", "id" ], "extensions": { "code": "argumentNotAccepted", "name": "user", "typeName": "Field", "argumentName": "id" } } ] } Are we waiting for user to be made queriable? How do you query a user's enrolments?

julian_ebeli · ‎08-16-2021

Happy to be corrected, but it appears to me that the syllabus page is automatically generated and has no controls or filters. There are also no assignment properties which affect how the syllabus page will show it. You can't change what is displayed on the syllabus page.

julian_ebeli · ‎08-04-2021

/accounts/a/users/b is the user profile page. In the "Name and Email" section there are a set of controls: Edit | Act as User | Merge with Another User | Delete from the school. In the "Login Information" section there is the "Add Login" control In the enrollments section there are no controls. I have people with over 100 enrolments and all I can do is scroll throght them seeing 2 at a time. I can't filter by any property, I am presented with all the completed courses the user was ever enrolled in. Unpublished courses. No subaccount info. This is a very unusable part of the site. My suggestion is that some effort be put into making this part of the page more manageable.

julian_ebeli · ‎06-07-2021

Hi rpm. You can't add custom css to a course. You can add it to a subaccount via its themes. This applies the customisation to all the course in the subaccount, which may or may not be desired.

julian_ebeli · ‎03-24-2021

The media player is so large because it is a video player, so just bear that in mind, this hack assumes that there is an audio file attached. I don't have a full solution. Here is my doodling with it. The shape of the media player is determined by the size of the iframe it plays in. The default height is 14.5rem, you can change this to 50px and squash the box You have to 'not show' the 'music' image. The <video> tag has an audio-player class. you can set the background-image attribute to "" or delete the attribute. You can bring the player into the smaller frame by adding these attributes to the <div.dVRGv_crZr> the player lives in { top: 0px; margin-top: 5px; } I end up with Once you collect all the css changes into a file you can add this css to the theme of a subaccount. Again this will alter/clobber all the video players in that subaccount, so you have to be sure you won't be breaking other things. If you want a mini-media player you'll probably have to run it through the canvas ideas process. Hope this helps

julian_ebeli · ‎03-24-2021

Does anyone know why a blueprint course has to be in the same or a higher subaccount to its associated courses? Why doesn't it work the otherway around? I mean what is the technical reason for this architecture? The only reason I can think of to justify it is permissions flow down? Thanks

julian_ebeli · ‎03-16-2021

John Smith is a valid username. Do you see the problem with it? You will never find it in the people list if you assume the 2 spaces in the name should just be 1 space. Canvas don't consider this to ba a bug and insist that a community idea be created to deal with it. My idea is that when usernames are created consecutive whitespace in the name be removed. I should make it clear that I'm talking about consecutive white space created inadvertently. Maybe through a copy and paste mishap from excel or word. I can not imagine a use case where consecutive invisible characters is required. Happy to be corrected on that one. In one line of python name_with_no_consecutive_whitespace = " ".join(re.split(r"\s+", name_field_string)) Someone probably knows how to write that in Ruby or Javascript! Thanks

julian_ebeli · ‎03-11-2021

Our root account has 82 Courses 25 Sub-Accounts. When I look at the course list at the root level there are 3910 pages of results, 58,650 courses I can not find the 82 courses at the root level in this list. The course list search is recursive by default. There should be an option to not recurse. I'm suggesting a filter to show only the courses actually in a subaccount, not all the courses in all the other subaccounts within that account. This filter should also be added to the API. GET /api/v1/accounts/:account_id/courses should have a parameter added called something like "recurse". Make its default value True and give us an option to set it to False if required. At the moment to find the 82 courses at the root level I need to ask 58,650 courses which subaccount they are in 🙂

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[Admin Tools] Course filtering options don't make sense Here I've selected hide courses with 0 students and show only blueprints. Blueprints can not have students, so I can't see any bluerints. If you click "show only blueprints" it should turn "h...	02-02-2022	306	0
course self-enrollment url is not visible My course is not displaying the self-enrollment url. It should be just under the 'fewer options' switch. What is the cause of this? And what is the solution? When I created the new cou...	11-01-2021	655	0
graphql error querying with user id Hi I'm having a problem get data for a specific user from the graphql API my graphql query is: query MyQuery($courseID: ID!) { course(id: $courseID) { enrollmentsConnection { nodes ...	10-10-2021	1038	0
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