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Hm. Are you running a test function to test the function with known good values on your beta instance? So something like this: function test_enroll() { enrollUserByURL(<known good user id>, <known good test course id>) } Because I copied and pasted your code, replaced the URL and token with my values, and ran it and got the same result as my function. So I'm not exactly sure what is different between my environment and your environment. ... View more

Are you adding "/api/v1/" to your Canvas URL for your institution? So it should look like: school.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/ followed by the rest of the endpoint. ... View more

I think you're missing the "Content-Type" parameter, I used 'multipart/form-data'. Code is below. Hope this helps! function enrollUser(user_id,course_id) { var requestURL = <canvas URL> + course_id + "/enrollments?enrollment[user_id]="+user_id+"&enrollment[type]=StudentEnrollment" var options = { 'muteHttpExceptions': true, 'method': 'POST', 'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data', 'headers': { "Authorization" :"Bearer "+ token, }, }; var result = UrlFetchApp.fetch(requestURL, options); Logger.log(result); } ... View more

Hey! Glad that someone is working with Google App Script! So unfortunately for the Enrollments endpoint, you actually need to write the parameters in the URL as query parameters instead of sending a payload. The message actually hints at this solution but I totally understand getting confused by it. Your URL will look something like this: "<CANVAS_URL>/api/v1/courses/" + course_id + "/enrollments?enrollments[user_id]=" + user_id + "&enrollments[type]=StudentEnrollment" And you'll not have a "payload" key in the JSON object for options. I tried this in my beta environment and it worked, returning the Enrollment object. I believe (and correct me if I'm wrong) the cURL command examples can give you a hint as to where your parameters go. If you see "-F" that means that it's probably going to go in the url, and if you see "-d" then that is going to go into the payload. Good luck! ... View more

Hi, was the hotfix deployed @jsailor? I checked this morning with Assignment Enhancements on and I'm still getting the unintended behavior when attaching a Google document. ... View more

You can utilize the API to traverse the quiz grades. Try https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/submissions.html#method.submissions_api.update Not sure if this works on New Quizzes. They're an external tool so I don't think the API can get into New Quizzes. ... View more

Could you post the API endpoint that you called to make these screenshots?  ... View more

Hi! I actually am running a Python script to automate a similar process (we want to know how many logins we're seeing at each school and on what days to see trends), so I know it can be done. If you just want users with 0 activity, there's a report for that -- it's called "zero_activity_csv" and you can call it from this endpoint: https://<canvas>/api/v1/accounts/1/reports/zero_activity_csv See more info here: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/all_resources.html#method.account_reports.create This endpoint for running reports I believe can accept any report that you can run from the UI, you just need to know the name of the report. You can grab the last login for a student using this endpoint: https://<canvas>/api/v1/accounts/:account_id/users?include[]=last_login See more info here: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/users.html#method.users.api_index If you need full login details, you can try https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/authentications_log.html#method.authentication_audit_api.for_login  to retrieve all logins for a user. I'm not familiar with your SIS so I don't know if these will work via the SIS, but as long as your SIS can do HTTP get requests it can be done. Otherwise, you can script using any language you like and make it a cron job/task scheduler job. Good luck! ... View more

I think you have the gist of how the program works. API calls are paginated, so you'll have to deal with that as well 🙂 In order to help with code it would be great if you could reply back with the languages of choice that you are most familiar in. ... View more

Have you tried adding the parameter show_inherited to the query? So it would look like: https://herzing.instructure.com/api/v1/accounts/224/roles?show_inherited=true   ... View more

Hi, @bludlow and @jsailor  I am also seeing this behavior with Google Assignments LTI 1.3 and I'm glad I encountered this thread -- I tried to contact Canvas support but got directed to talk to Google support (twice), and now I'm stuck trying to explain to Google support what the issue is (it's been a week of back and forths and Google now thinks it's a network issue and not their tool...ugh). Please let me know what I can do to help guide this along (if anything). It's frustrating for teachers right now when they're trying to grade assignments. I've been directing teachers and students to submit a Google Doc URL but they really want the old functionality back 🙂 ... View more

If you're using Postman, you can use a Collections Runner. https://learning.postman.com/docs/running-collections/intro-to-collection-runs/ If you know some JS you can also write a script directly in Postman. https://learning.postman.com/docs/writing-scripts/intro-to-scripts/ I highly recommend writing a script for this, though, like James suggests. Good luck! ... View more

@PaulJanzen -- There's some updates on the New Quiz API here  Current status of New Quizzes API - Instructure Community ...looks like they're working on it. As far as I know there are no endpoints for New Quizzes yet. ... View more

@chadscott  Hey, Chad! Thank you so much for the writeup! We're doing something similar at my district (Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools) that I do have code for that I'm willing to post & share if anybody would like it in Python. I use the CanvasAPI wrapper plus some Python magic to get it working (and direct calls to the REST API instead of a SIS import but now that I'm looking at this I'm wondering why the heck I didn't do a SIS import! It may be because we have a lot of campuses LOL) Just some thoughts/questions: 1) If a student changes grade levels mid-year does this code account for that? 2) Just curious, is there a reason why the counselor course & the student "class of" courses couldn't be combined?  3) How long does it take for the SIS import to complete? ... View more

@hess The "include[]=submission" parameter only returns submissions for the current user -- which would normally be you since you're using your API token to access that submission. See documentation here: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/assignments.html#method.assignments_api.index I would use @James 's suggestion to masquerade in order to get the status of a submission for the current student. https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.masquerading.html  ... View more

@skeesler I'm not 100% sure but there seems to be a "custom user data" endpoint located here: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/all_resources.html#method.custom_data.get_data The data may be there. Unfortunately my instance doesn't have Faculty Journal entries so I can't confirm. In addition, it looks like you're using the CanvasAPI Python wrapper...which doesn't have a method for getting this custom data (as far as I know). You may have to use a HTTP library to make the calls yourself. ... View more