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mmtscn · ‎07-27-2021

Adding "-sS" to use silent mode has resolved the issue for me. Curl now returns only the JSON data.

mmtscn · ‎07-26-2021

I just found out that I had an extra character in the curl command. Instead of -F only_announcements=true \ I had -F only_announcements]=true \ After removing the ], the returned string looks normal now. I'm still not understanding why that extra character caused that result though. Edit: Spoke too soon. The Carriage Return is gone, but there is still a return inside the JSON string, and I can't tell if something else is going wrong. BBEdit shows a linebreak below. But If the linebreak is removed, the direct connection between "ch1" with "id" is also strange... Edit: Well, the strange string has returned and inserted in the middle of the JSON string. Removing the "]" does not seem to make much difference.

mmtscn · ‎07-26-2021

Hi, I used curl to get a list of discussion topics (announcements). The data was successfully returned. However, the returned string contains special characters, which BBEdit shown as a red reversed question mark. There is one before the JSON string. This is fine, because I don't need the string before the JSON string. There is another one inside the JSON string. This one breaks the string. As I did a regex search for \[\{.* and it stops at the reversed question mark. If I do regex search for \[\{.*\}\], it will fail the search, because the reversed question mark is there. Any help appreciated! Edit: When I copy and paste the reversed question mark to the search box of BBEdit, it is shown as \x{0D}, a carriage return. I have no idea why the carriage return appears in the middle of the JSON string. It looks like one line of the string that is supposed to appear before the JSON string is inserted between the ID number. it looks like the string after the first reversed question mark: Edit 2: I can first remove the Carriage Return and then do the regex research. But still, there are some extra numbers/spaces (the highlighted part in the screenshot below) inserted in the id number. The ID number is supposed to be "12047307". But "100 23887 " is inserted between "120" and "47307". Edit 3: The string inserted has random length. This time, it is this: Another try: It is always inserted at the same place though. Looks like it is a bug?

mmtscn · ‎06-26-2021

Hi @Chris_Hofer, Thanks for pointing us to @James's post. I was not aware of that. This will be extremely helpful for the future courses I will administer.

mmtscn · ‎06-26-2021

This is great! Thank you so much, @James.

mmtscn · ‎06-24-2021

I need to move due dates backwards as well. I was surprised that backwards moving is not supported. Please add this feature. It's been months since the feature request was made.

mmtscn · ‎05-25-2021

Hi @Chris_Hofer , Thanks for the detailed explanation and instructions. There are 20 students in the class, only when I grade this student's assignments, the Question links are shown in Korean. With all the rest of the students, the links are shown in English. So, my suspicion is that the language is shown according to the student's language setting, not that of the grader/instructor, although it is on the grader/instructor's end. I think this is a bug.

mmtscn · ‎05-25-2021

Hi @kmeeusen, Thanks for your reply. I may have not stated my question clearly, or maybe I have misunderstood your reply. The links in the screenshot are not typed by the students. It is created by Canvas. They are links to the questions that need to be manually graded (i.e., assigning points). Here is what it is supposed to be: But, because that student set his language to Korean, the links also show up in Korean on my end as a grader, although I have set my preferred language as English.

mmtscn · ‎05-24-2021

Hi, As a grader, I set my language to English, but when a student sets his/her language to another, the language on the speed grader page on my end is also that language but not English. For example, the links in the screenshot below are all Korean but not English. This is unexpected. I know nothing about Korean. Is there a way to fix it? Thanks!

mmtscn · ‎03-03-2021

It appears that the tables in the Fill-in-blank questions in the Classic Quizzes are not preserved after migrating to the New Quizzes. In the Classic Quizzes: In the New Quizzes: This is not good~ Is there any way to preserve the Rich Text format?

mmtscn · ‎02-25-2021

Hi @Stef_retired , Thanks a lot for you prompt reply. I'm glad to see that the New Quizzes are more flexible with the fill-in-the-blank questions. I had not tried it before. I just tested it. It's definitely been improved. I have some interesting findings that I'd like to share. I created two identical questions, the first on Safari, the second on Google Chrome. Then I had a preview test on Safari and Google Chrome respectively. They renders the answers and the inputs differently, but also consistently. The result is kind of satisfying. Put it simply: Safari (right side in the screenshot below) consistently decomposes the שׁ ( \uFB2A ) letter into שׁ (\u05e9\u05c1) and switches the Shin Dot with Qamets: {SHIN}{QAMATS}{SHIN DOT}. In other words, Safari consistently normalizes both the answer key and the input. Google Chrome (left side in the screenshot below) consistently does not normalize the answer key and the input. I would say that this is indeed an improvement. In this circumstances, I don't need to worry about the normalization. I only need to to worry about the different inputs of students, when they use the browsers that do not normalize the text.

mmtscn · ‎02-25-2021

Hi, There are some known issues with Hebrew in the past years. I think I have found the cause to all the known problems. Some are related to the OS and/or keyboard that people use to type Hebrew. One particular issue, however, is the ways that the browsers handles the words teacher/students typed into the browser. According to my limited tests, all major web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox do not use Unicode Normalization to process what users typed into the browser. Safari (the MacOS version), however, upon user submission on Canvas, will normalize the user inputs. On many languages, there will be no difference. Unfortunately, with Hebrew that comes with vowels and cantillation marks, the issue is huge. When the teacher types in the answer key, using a browser other than Safari, the text is not normalized. When the students uses Safari to take the quizzes/exams, the input is normalized. The result is that the student's answer is marked as incorrect, although it looks identical to the answer key. שָׁ (\uFB2A\u05B8) and שָׁ (\u05e9\u05b8\u05c1) and שָׁ (\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8) all look the same, but are treated as three different answers. The one in the middle, שָׁ (\u05e9\u05b8\u05c1), is the normalized text. Excellent explanation of the issue of normalization with Hebrew may be found in the SBL Hebrew User Manual, pp. 8–17. In this single example, to account for all student's input scenarios, I have to list all three answers as the correct answer, although they look exactly the same to human eyes! My suggestion: Please provide an option for us to normalize both the answer key and the student's input, so that we don't need to worry about these variations! This is crucial in dealing with Hebrew on Canvas!!! PS: I have confirmed it myself with JavaScript. If I first normalize both answer and user input before comparing the strings, they give a much better outcome: input = input.normalize('NFC'); if (typeof ans === 'string') { // one correct answer. ans = ans.normalize('NFC'); if (input == ans) { mark.innerHTML = ' ✅ '; } else { mark.innerHTML = ' ❌ '; } } else if (typeof ans === 'object') { // multiple correct answers. for (i = 0; i < ans.length; i++) { ans[i] = ans[i].normalize('NFC'); } if (ans.includes(input)) { mark.innerHTML = ' ✅ '; } else { mark.innerHTML = ' ❌ '; } }

mmtscn · ‎02-16-2021

When I get a list of users in JSON form, there are many unnecessary spaces between/after the names. For instance: {"id":26611,"name":"John Smith ","created_at":"2018-11-16T16:00:06-05:00","sortable_name":"Smith , John ","short_name":"Smith John ","sis_user_id":"231314","integration_id":null,"login_id":"a4","email":"js@aaa.edu"} I have changed the names to John Smith and changed the email address. I did not touch the spaces. As you can see: there are many spaces in the name fields. These spaces will also show in the title of the emails that students send to me. Not all names have these spaces. But many have them. Can you remove the spaces? Thanks!

mmtscn · ‎02-16-2021

Hi, I used the ShellScript cURL method to get a list of the users in the course. This is my script: curl <https://$schoolname.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/$MyCourseID/users \ -X GET \ -d per_page=100 \ -d enrollment_type[]=student \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $MyToken" I get the returned string, formatted as % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 38 0 0 100 38 0 39 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 38[{"id":2766,"name":"C A","created_at":"2016-09-14T18:39:02-04:00","sortable_name":"A, B ","short_name":"B A","sis_user_id":"218850","integration_id":null,"login_id":"ca50","email":"ca50@aaa.edu"}, ... ... {"id":29909,"name":"K J ","created_at":"2020-03-09T10:00:04-04:00 100 29977 0 29939 100 38 27876 35 0:00:01 0:00:","sortable_name":"J, W","short_name":"W J ","sis_user_id":"235251","integration_id":null,"login_id":"kj51","email":"kj51@aaa.edu"}, ... ... ... {"id":451,"name":"C R","created_at":"2016-09-14T18:34:35-04:00","sortable_name":"R, C","short_name":"C R","sis_user_id":"185511","integration_id":null,"login_id":"CR11","email":"cr@aaa.edu"}]01 --:--:-- 27911 But there is an expected string in the middle. 100 29977 0 29939 100 38 27876 35 0:00:01 0:00: It begins with a carriage return "\r". It is more visible in BBEdit (shwon as an upside down question mark "?"): What is the cause of it and how can I get rid of it? Thanks!

mmtscn · ‎02-08-2021

Hi, I cannot use the "Copy To" function because I have the same course that has been offered in the past years, and when I choose the "Copy To" function, all past courses show up with the same name. I don't know which is which (Screenshot below). I usually change the display name of a course a unique name. If the "Copy To" can show the unique name I have created on the Dashboard page, it would be great! Thanks!

mmtscn · ‎12-11-2020

Hello, I'd like to be able to assign different points to the options of multiple-choice questions. For instance, for question: "Did you attend the online meeting?" A. I attended. (worth 2 pt) B. I didn't. But I have contacted the TA in advance and have watched the recording. (worth 2 pt) C. I didn't. I did not contact the TA in advance, but I have watched the recording. (worth 1 pt). D. I did not, and I did not watch the recording. (worth 0 pt). If the student chooses either A or B, he/she gets 2 pts. If the student chooses C, he/she gets 1 pt. If the student chooses D, he/she gets 0 pt. If there are other ways to accomplish this goal, I'd be glad to learn it. Thanks!

mmtscn · ‎11-30-2020

Hello, I was wondering, is it possible to set a default delay time for announcements? Sometimes immediately after I post the announcements, I realized that I've made some mistakes in the announcements and I must edit them. But the announcements were already posted and sent to the students via emails. I was wondering if I could set a default delay time for the announcements. The result would be: although I click the post button and did not adjust the post time, the announcement would still be posted 30 or 60 min after. So that if I want to edit, I still have time to do it. PS: I know that I can set the post time myself. But I only use it when I want to post the announcements on another day, not 30 or 60 min later. Thanks! Blessings, Martin

mmtscn · ‎10-24-2020

When a class is divided into sections, I hope grade assignments in "To do" will lead to grade the section that is assigned to me, not the entire class. In other words, students assigned NOT to my section should NOT show up in my "to do" list. Thanks!

mmtscn · ‎10-05-2020

Hello @Stef_retired , Thanks. I've resubmitted. 1. Rearrangement of (Speed Grading) "Grades", "Comments", and "Files" tabs on the iOS teach app https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Rearrangement-of-Speed-Grading-quot-Grades-quot-quot-Comments/idi-p/413392 2. Canvas Teacher app: Load multiple PDF files consecutively https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Canvas-Teacher-app-Load-multiple-PDF-files-consecutively/idi-p/413395 And I have added one more: 3. Canvas Teacher app: be able to adjust the size of document-view box and Grades/comments/Files box https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Canvas-Teacher-app-be-able-to-adjust-the-size-of-document-view/idi-p/413401 Thanks!

mmtscn · ‎10-05-2020

Hello, The screenshot below best shows my idea.

Post Details	Date Published	Views	Kudos
BUG Report: Special Characters inside Returned JSON String Hi, I used curl to get a list of discussion topics (announcements). The data was successfully returned. However, the returned string contains special characters, which BBEdit shown as a red rever...	07-26-2021	754	0
The Language of Question Links on Speed Grader Page Set to Student's but not the Grader's Hi, As a grader, I set my language to English, but when a student sets his/her language to another, the language on the speed grader page on my end is also that language but not English. For exampl...	05-24-2021	576	0
Option to implement unicode normalization for answer key and student's input in quizzes/exams Hi, There are some known issues with Hebrew in the past years. I think I have found the cause to all the known problems. Some are related to the OS and/or keyboard that people use to type Hebrew....	02-25-2021	620	0
Unnecessary spaces in names (data from cURL) When I get a list of users in JSON form, there are many unnecessary spaces between/after the names. For instance: {"id":26611,"name":"John Smith ",...	02-16-2021	229	0
Unexpected String in the middle of Returned JSON (from cURL users) Hi, I used the ShellScript cURL method to get a list of the users in the course. This is my script: curl <https://$schoolname.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/$MyCourseID/users...	02-16-2021	372	0
Assign different points to options of multiple-choice questions Hello, I'd like to be able to assign different points to the options of multiple-choice questions. For instance, for question: "Did you attend the online meeting?" A. I attended. (worth 2 pt) B....	12-11-2020	572	0
Announcement Default Delay Time Hello, I was wondering, is it possible to set a default delay time for announcements? Sometimes immediately after I post the announcements, I realized that I've made some mistakes in ...	11-30-2020	632	0
Canvas Teacher App: Grade section instead of class for "To do" When a class is divided into sections, I hope grade assignments in "To do" will lead to grade the section that is assigned to me, not the entire class. In other words, students assigned ...	10-24-2020	758	0
Canvas Teacher app: be able to adjust the size of document-view box and Grades/comments/Files box Hello, The screenshot below best shows my idea.	10-05-2020	746	0
Canvas Teacher app: Load multiple PDF files consecutively In the Canvas Teacher app, currently, when students upload more than 1 pdf files, I have to click each file in order to load each of them. If possible, when students upload more than 1 pdf files, I...	10-05-2020	655	0
Rearrangement of (Speed Grading) "Grades", "Comments", and "Files" tabs on the iOS teach app Currently, “Grades", "Comments", and "Files" are in three Tabs. I'd like them to be displayed on the same page, as shown on the right side. "Comments" goes to the middle section, and "Files" goes to ...	10-05-2020	649	0
Rearrangement of (Speed Grading) "Grades", "Comments", and "Files" tabs on the iOS teach app Hello, My suggestions are shown in the screenshot below: Two feature requests for the iOS teacher app (speed grading mood): 1. Currently, “Grades", "Comments", and "Files" are in three Tabs. I'd l...	10-03-2020	649	0
What is "assignment_override[title]" in "Create an assignment override" API? Hello, I want to change the lock_at date of quizzes/exams for individual students via API. In Canvas LMS - REST API and Extensions Documentation → Create an assignment ove...	08-26-2020	644	0
Sign in Problem with this site This is on Chrome. When I try to login at https://community.canvaslms.com It sends me to: https://www.instructure.com/canvas/login/free-for-teacher I logged in to my account. It brings me to my co...	08-07-2020	249	0
Canvas API - Problem with "Create a Conversation with a student enrolled in multiple courses" Hello, When I create a conversation with a student who is enrolled in multiple courses. The problem is that all courses will be listed in the title of the message. This is confusing. I want to...	08-07-2020	262	0
Possible to change style (font-size) for match questions? Hello, Is it possible to change the style attributes for match questions? As shown below, the Hebrew words are too small. I have received a lot of complaints in the past. I really hope I can make t...	07-15-2020	1528	1
Send announcement via API problem: Pragraph marks not preserved Hello, When I send announcement via API, paragraph marks are not preserved. For instance, the original message is: this is a test message this is a test message this is a test message this is a...	06-26-2020	676	1

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