This is a useful update, I only this morning mentioned to my boss that the sooner we get it the sooner we can test it (with a view to our MIS team taking over integration, running the queries against it in PowerBI). I notice there is no mention of Canvas Studio data on the timeline. Is that the case? ... View more

I can't seem to the vote for the idea (this new interface really isn't intuitive), but a tutor has just asked me if this can be done. So voting it up in a comment on their behalf ... View more

I come from a former moodle house - moodle was capable of doing this before this idea got posted here. You would think that with nearly 400 upvotes it would be put onto the 'implement' list? It is one of the biggest issues we have with canvas, especially like you say where we have multiple groups (or almost identical courses such as Diploma and Certificate) using the same course but separated user-wise using Sections. We will be doing a lot more sectioning for the 20/21 academic year, but so far we can only see Assignments being able to use it. Modules is the next most important thing for us, to see this feature. ... View more

We have found this in 2 years of having it, so far. Frequently finding we can't do something, or that is flaky (e.g. the Course and People search as an admin). On the whole the GUI is nicer for end users. But simple things like not being able to use Sections to police who can see what (e.g. tutors delivering a course want to stagger how their groups of students see the content that's relevant, and you can't date unlock a module by section). Simple things in moodle, which we had before! ... View more

that is a good start. But if I'm sitting down to do some serious work I'm sat at my laptop - and if it's a long essay with a lot of annotations, that's far easier on the eye than staring at even a big ipad screen! ... View more

As someone who has canvas data at their institution, there are two fundamental problems with it (that make us reluctant to touch it, now we understand them): 1) It is at very best case a day out of date, usually 2 days - this is no help when end users are wanting realtime dashboards, so we wrote a mini one that pulls down data for a course's acivity using APIs and renders it to them. We also run our own home-brew cron which pulls the data we're interested in reporting on at college level via API. The current one-table version, which our MIS team imports and then puts into our Student record system (ProSolution) as a report, takes just over an hour (around 150 courses, 10,000 students, 700 staff). 2) Because a 'user' in canvas has both a numerical user ID and (potentially) multiple login credentials, there isn't just one user table You have psuedonym_dim as well as user_dim, and the relationship between the two doesn't obviously marry up. So you can't look at the user_id value for say an assignment submission in canvas data, and programatically be able to work out the correct sis_user_id without what looks like witchcraft. I have tried setting up a live data stream into Amazon's SQS - we got data out of it, but it is using the canvas data (redshift, as we call it, because it sits on amazon redshift) user_id s - which is no help thanks to point 2 above. Plus I hit a snag with paginators on Amazon's API code because you can only download 10 data rows at a time - and looping through them the way we do Canvas API calls, you get an inconsistent amount of results. So, for now, we are working on an API-based downloader which pulls down everything we are interested in. Currently it is taking just over 2 hours for the current academic year, and the plan is to run this in the morning and have it build relational tables that MIS will ingest and push up to Power BI for analysis. ... View more

Has anyone got any examples of code for this, especially in PHP? We're working on an LTI at the moment that includes passback, but have been having documentation issues working out how to do it in LTI 1.1. Now we're on the cusp of getting them resolved (waiting for a response to a support ticket, to check why the XML I sent it failed as the OAuth bit seems to be working well at least not erroring), I read we should be considering doing passback differently. As a quick fudge, we used an API key for our site to pass the grade back (as we get the course, assignment and user IDs) and that works. But the plan is to roll this LTI out to other institutions so if there's a more universal API-key-free way of doing this I think we should be implementing it before it gets that far. ... View more

We've had canvas for 2 years. A total of maybe 2 major issues we had with it, that were basically feature requests, have been implemented. I read another is on the way, but it's not very well described in the release notes. Often we're finding it's easier to write our own code and use the APIs - but this doesn't plug alll of the gaps. ... View more

You know that idea has been archived already right? ... View more

It's now on the table apparently. That is a bit of progress ... View more

I've voted for this. It was flagged in another idea concerning comments in speedgrader (namely, the ability to STRIP formatting if you copy/paste from word) and remove all illegal characters: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/14392-strip-formatting-when-pasting-into-assignment-comments-field-of-speedgrader ... View more

Done ... View more

You're right, I am - thanks. I've tweaked the idea title to clarify this (it might come up on searches better too). ... View more

I only just discovered this when looking into it for a member of staff. I told her the suggestion it couldn't sounded ridiculous, and have just told canvas support this when ringing them up to check if it really couldn't be done by the student. ... View more