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jtheaton
Jeff Heaton
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Jeff Heaton is a lead data scientist at Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), an adjunct instructor for the Sever Institute at Washington University, and the author of several books about artificial intelligence. Jeff holds a Master of Information Management (MIM) from Washington University and a Ph.D. in computer science from Nova Southeastern University.

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Thanks, James...  I checked the API docs on large numbers, this fixed it for me:"To force all ids to strings add the request header Accept: application/json+canvas-string-ids This will cause Canvas to...
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Hello  @James ,Thank you for your very helpful answer.  I changed my API call to the one you suggested and I can now post grades to both students with/without submissions.Some additional information.T...
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I have several assignments setup where the student will not actually submit anything through Canvas.&nbsp; If I am using the web GUI I can easily add a grade to such an assignment, the student does not nee<!-- -->...
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What is the suggested way to deal with the very long ID's that Canvas creates in JavaScript?&nbsp; For example, if I try to parse this response (from a list of courses), Javascript rounds the ID up to&nbsp;6078...
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Yes I saw that.&nbsp; It only describes what the problem is.&nbsp; Not how to solve it.&nbsp; How do you parse such a large number from Canvas in Javascript.&nbsp; I KNOW the issue is that JS is only 32 bit, but how does...
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Hello &nbsp;@James&nbsp;,Thank you for your very helpful answer.&nbsp; I changed my API call to the one you suggested and I can now post grades to both students with/without submissions.Some additional information.T...
Sep 2, 2018 2:42:25 PM
I have several assignments setup where the student will not actually submit anything through Canvas.&nbsp; If I am using the web GUI I can easily add a grade to such an assignment, the student does not nee<!-- -->...
Sep 1, 2018 9:18:42 PM
Thanks, James...&nbsp; I checked the API docs on large numbers, this fixed it for me:"To force all ids to strings add the request header&nbsp;Accept: application/json+canvas-string-ids&nbsp;This will cause Canvas to...
Jul 12, 2018 8:40:56 AM
Yes I saw that.&nbsp; It only describes what the problem is.&nbsp; Not how to solve it.&nbsp; How do you parse such a large number from Canvas in Javascript.&nbsp; I KNOW the issue is that JS is only 32 bit, but how does...
Jul 12, 2018 4:32:43 AM
What is the suggested way to deal with the very long ID's that Canvas creates in JavaScript?&nbsp; For example, if I try to parse this response (from a list of courses), Javascript rounds the ID up to&nbsp;6078...
Jul 5, 2018 6:45:38 PM

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