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dkpatton
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My campus has a guest network that students are not supposed to use. Unfortunately, about 10-20% of our students use guest. This has not been a problem until recently when students have used LockDown ...
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Hi,Our school is in the process of migrating from Sakai to Canvas. I am helping design standards and practices that will be used for all our programs. We use Modules as the main organizational tool fo...
Likes: 14
Since the variable ENV.PREFERENCES.dashboard_view isn't accessible through the API, I don't know if this would be possible. We have 400 students for whom I'd like to report usage trends to our faculty...
Likes: 6
THANK YOU!! This is exactly what I needed. I did not know that students could interact with the API. Man, I love Canvas.
Likes: 6
"Assignment bloat" is a great way to describe what is a real concern in some classes. Overusing this feature we may elicit feelings of overwhelm for our students. Maybe a good approach would be to rec...
Likes: 3

Most Recent Posts

Our custom themes do a little bit of customization on the home page of courses. One change depends on the course ID of the page. There are plenty of ways to get the course ID in the web browser, for e...
Apr 1, 2022 12:02:44 PM
Just got this request from a faculty. There are 5 related assignments that she wants to grade as a progression of thought by student. It seems like a reasonable request and could have a lot of applica...
Feb 11, 2020 2:10:39 PM
Hi Jayde,My js functions that depended on selecting custom css classes broke. My workaround was to delay loading my page load function for 500 ms. Not sure if it helps.-Dave
Jun 24, 2019 2:42:08 PM
Thanks for the tips. I especially like the first approach. Setting the custom data value based on the user's environment is really intuitive. I don't have Canvas Data yet, so I can see requests or pul...
Oct 15, 2018 2:45:06 PM
Since the variable ENV.PREFERENCES.dashboard_view isn't accessible through the API, I don't know if this would be possible. We have 400 students for whom I'd like to report usage trends to our faculty...
Oct 10, 2018 9:35:19 AM

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