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Definitely. I was worried I was going to have to iterate through a couple million enrollments to get it! 🙂 ... View more

Doh, didn't even think to check there. Thank you! ... View more

Thank you! ... View more

That was about my experience as well. It took about 19 hours to do about 68K students. I wish there were a better way. As far as locking the avatars, I believe there is an option in the settings that will let you disable the ability for the users to change them, but I have not played with that yet because we still let Staff manage their own.  ... View more

Awesome, glad you got it working! ... View more

@reynlds  Our process works in multiple stages. Every morning after our SIS import runs, I download a complete list of all our canvas users and import them into a SQL Table. I then match those users and identify which ones are students, parents, teachers, etc. After I do that, I grab all the student id’s and scan a file share that has all our student id photos. If they have a photo, I update the table with the full path, and an md5 hash (to compare when a new photo is taken). At the end of each week, our process runs gets of a list of students who have new id photos or do not have an avatar already in canvas and sends it. I took this approach rather than just reuploading them each week because Instructure seems to have a rather aggressive rate limit and would cause the process to die out. It took about 19 hours to get the main batch up. I also took this approach so that we do not keep uploading the same photo each week causing duplicates.  Another thing to note is if the user is over their quota, you will not be able to upload a user avatar for them. From there it runs the API queries to create the upload form and then upload the avatar and then to assign it to the user. I log the unique ids and tokens to a database that I use to compare when a user changes their avatar or when a new one needs to be uploaded. I know very little about python, but this is the script that I based my powershell code on: https://github.com/unsupported/canvas/blob/b3acbb55267feb69e14078d83655f594e992c94f/api/bulk_assign_avatars/python/bulk_assign_avatars.py   As far as the powershell side of things, I store all the canvas ids in a variable and then put it in a parallel foreach loop to go through each id and make the changes. If you are curious about more of the specifics on that let me know. I hope this helps. ... View more

Sorry for the delay-- This is part of a JS script that makes it easier for our teachers to xlist and rename courses, I am thinking that i have to use that specific end point because of it. But I will try with what you suggested.   Thanks, Brian ... View more

It definitely got better after switching it into Production, I was able to get all 60K of them loaded in. Thanks ... View more

Hey  @richard10 ‌,  It sounds like you just want to download a list of all of your courses?  What ysmalls‌ and I are doing is downloading a list of all of our courses and storing them in a MS SQL Table and identifying which ones are set to public, and then turning that flag off. What you could do to get started is run an api call for something like: "http s://$instructureurl/api/v1/accounts/1/courses?per_page=100" This will return the first 100 courses, but using a series of splits such as: $maxpage = $link.split(",")[3].split("?")[1].split("&")[0].split("=")[1] you can get the max number of pages to start iterating through each page (I'm using a while loop for this), and start storing the data in a database table of some sort. Hopefully that will help you out some, if you need help with something more specific, let me know.   ... View more

One thing we forgot to add in the above is that it looks like "public_syllabus" is flipped. From what I could tell, when public_syllabus = True, it's actually disabled, but when public_syllabus = False, it's actually enabled. Am I misunderstanding something with this? ... View more