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jleonard99
John Leonard
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Professor
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I'm a professor of computer science. I teach front end (UI development) and backend (databases and middleware). I write to the canvas API.

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@James Thanks for the tips! I'm a relative novice at course design. I'm still using modules that map to weeks, rather than advancing to modules mapping to topics and leveraging mastery pat...
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Using the canvas API I found that I can embed <style></style> blocks of CSS in the wiki_page[body].  for example: <style>  .fp-body-columnx{    width:280px;    word-wrap:brea...
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Rather than starting from scratch, I suggest that you review an existing python library: https://canvasapi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting-started.html I use this API library regularly to both extrac...
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Problem statement: Canvas displays different course names depending on the type of home page selected. This course name is sometimes different from the name showed on the breadcrumb, depending on whet...
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Thanks for the detailed response!  I guess the lesson is "stick with in-line styles" unless you like living on the edge with the sword of damocles hanging over your head.  Given that the HTML ...
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Problem statement: Canvas displays different course names depending on the type of home page selected. This course name is sometimes different from the name showed on the breadcrumb, depending on whet...
Jul 30, 2024 5:03:07 AM
@James Thanks for the tips! I'm a relative novice at course design. I'm still using modules that map to weeks, rather than advancing to modules mapping to topics and leveraging mastery pat...
Feb 5, 2024 5:16:01 AM
Thanks for the detailed response!  I guess the lesson is "stick with in-line styles" unless you like living on the edge with the sword of damocles hanging over your head.  Given that the HTML ...
Feb 5, 2024 4:01:39 AM
Using the canvas API I found that I can embed <style></style> blocks of CSS in the wiki_page[body].  for example: <style>  .fp-body-columnx{    width:280px;    word-wrap:brea...
Feb 4, 2024 12:56:10 PM
Interesting.  I'm using the API and found that I CAN include <style> ...</style> code within the wiki_page[body] and it works just fine. I wonder if there is a setting that an institut...
Feb 4, 2024 12:31:56 PM

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