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Hi Peg, If you are trying to make a resource available on the Commons to everyone at your institution, you should have the option to select All of "Your Institution's Name" under the Sharing and License section of the form you fill out when sharing or editing a shared resource.  You said it doesn't seem to be working. What indication are you getting that makes you think this? We need more information to understand the problem before deciding what the best path forward is. ... View more

 @fisher1 ‌, Matthew has created another discussion that includes details on downloading the latest release of this program and a link to a video tutorial: NARC: Cheat Detection System‌. ... View more

 @stelpstra ‌ created a useful macro-enabled Excel workbook that uses the API to pull all the group information from a course into one area for easier viewing. You could then search for the student's name in Excel to quickly find all the groups they are in. The workbook, and instructions on how to use it, can be found in this document created by Jaap. Automated report of group sets, groups and members in a course‌.  ... View more

Perhaps this is not a problem of "stickiness". Like you mentioned, the password field is not a "sticky" field (according to the documentation) so that may explain why the clear_sis_stickiness parameter has no effect on it. Is the account that you are using configured to use an authentication service or SSO (single sign-on) protocol? If so, that may be the reason you are running into problems when trying to change the password through an SIS import (the documentation advises against this - SIS Import Format Documentation). The only other way to change passwords through the API that I know of is using the Edit a User Login endpoint found here: Logins - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation; however, this option would also require the use of a script rather than your SIS interface. ... View more

Hi Teri, I had a read through the SIS Imports API Documentation and it appears as though in addition to the override_sis_stickiness parameter, which tells the SIS import to ignore the "stickiness" and override all UI changes, you can include the clear_sis_stickiness parameter to clear the "stickiness" of all fields touched by the import. I haven't tried this myself, but it might be worth testing with your current script. ... View more

Hi Jago, Our scripts use the same while loop condition in Python when handling pagination and we haven't noticed any new errors.  That being said, the Link header may exclude the "last" url if the total count is too expensive to compute on each request as noted here - Pagination - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation which may be what is causing the error in your case.  @James ‌ mentioned a possible solution for cases where the Link header does not include a "last" url could be to "cycle through using the next link if there is no last provided". I hope this helps! Levi ... View more