I have created a GH repo that will programmatically generate a Postman collection based upon the latest Canvas API docs

This is a user script that provides course readiness and teacher activity reminders based on the configured expectations. Expectations that can be configured include checks for the Syllabus, published state of the course, course dates, assignment due...

This is a user script that allows teachers to bulk copy announcements from one of their courses to another course(s).  This process will create the announcements as the user using the script so the copied announcements will also show them as the auth...

These user scripts will add in an additional user identifier, such as their email address, in places that only show their name to help differentiate users.  This is especially useful for classes where students have the same name.

A Chrome Extension to enhance teacher To Do list with filter, search and sorting functionality.

This is a user script to automatically click the expand threads button when going to a discussion board.  It will also click the expand threads button when going to a new page of replies.

This user script provides the ability to bulk update the threaded reply setting of discussions in courses.

A Python admin tool for rendering subaccount hierarchy graphs for Canvas.   

This is a user script to allow admins to bulk publish courses from the admin account course search page.

I have developed a user script that can be used to bulk update enrollment states in a course.

Many teachers set the course locale (which sets the language assumed for the course content); unfortunately, this also changes the user's GUI - so all of the menus are now in the language of the course locale. This is undesirable from many points of ...

A new Simple Search feature has been added to the Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) browser extension. This allows a user to search for content within a course or across their enrolled courses.

Hi All, There have been a few posts in the Canvas LMS area asking about options for automatically deleting courses after and defined amount of time...   few years ago, I built this functionality into a python script that my institution runs on a dail...

This is a follow-up of my last post on the community forum here,https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/Self-host-amp-Install-Canvas-LMS-on-your-own-server/td-p/575826Following the production guide created by Instructure for Canvas...

Are you going to be at InstructureCon 2024?  Do you have interest in meeting some fellow developer-type people in-person?  We have arranged 2 different opportunities to connect this year!

Using CD2, it is possible to find out who made an anonymous post and who has read the post.

We are using the following code to hide the anonymous discussion options at this time.  We will re-evaluate making this available in the future, but are not ready to support this functionality at this time since the identity of the student is also hi...

I am creating this blog as an area where we can share links to code repositories and projects with each other, as we discussed in the developers meetup yesterday.  If you have a project website, GitHub, etc that others might find useful, please share...

Years ago I used the API to find which LTI tools were used in a course, then switched to CD1 and now I'm using CD2.  I built a Tableau report with several filters, including: Type of course: sis, non-sis or allState of the course: published, unpublis...

I created a blog post in 2020 explaining how to bulk load and sync Canvas Avatar images using Powershell. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/How-to-bulk-load-and-update-avatar-profile-pictures-with/ba-p/410101 Since then, I've...

I am working to have an AI LLM (ChatGPT 3.5 or better) generate QTI 2.1 XML that I can copy-paste into text files then ZIP and upload to Canvas to create Item Banks in New Quizzes.I have been successful in getting ChatGPT to generate a set of test qu...

Sit back, relax, and let n8n do (most of) the tedious admin tasks for you. N8N is an open-source workflow automation tool that empowers you to harness the capabilities of Canvas backend systems, including Canvas API, Canvas Data, and Live Data, to st...

Hello, Canvas Community!I'm thrilled to announce the R package called "vvcanvas". This package provides a convenient interface to interact with the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) API, enabling users to authenticate, retrieve course informati...

Learn about some of the new features that I built and released in v3.0.0 of the Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) Chrome extension to provide course level reports primarily about course content.  The code for the extension is open-source if you would like to v...

Learn about some of the new features that I built and released in v3.0.0 of the Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) Chrome extension to enhance the experience of creating/editing rubrics.  The code for the extension is open-source if you would like to view and/o...

Hi all, I've deployed an LTI 1.3 tool as a Discussion Topic Menu, and when I click the menu item in my course, I get back a json result, but I can't find the Discussion Topic ID in the json results.   Does anyone else have experience working with LTI...

I recently updated my Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) Chrome extension to provide some new enhancements to the course search and admin flyout menu inspired by ideas and requests I have seen from other users in the community.

It's few months that I don't access the Canvas app installed on OVH VPS server. I tried now and it shows the directory of files, but not the login interface. Nothings has been changed since the last time I use it (december 2022)

Hi all,I would like to attach a zip file to all of my students submissions. I have been able to upload the file via the Cavnas API. However, I cannot seem to get the file to attach a student's submission. Acccording to https://canvas.instructure.com/...

I need an access token to grab a list of line items during the LTI1.3 workflow. I am currently receiving an unsupported grant type error.I have seen claims that Canvas does not support this flow to issue access tokens for machine to machine API use.L...

DAP CLI 2.1.0 is here, bringing smarter API rate-limit handling and improved compatibility under the hood. This release also adds support for emoji characters in your database workflows, because data deserves a bit of fun too.

Earlier this month, we announced the infrastructure upgrade powering the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) / DAP Query API, to Snowflake. We’re excited to share that this transition is progressing as planned and brings significant improvements in data fidelity, sc...

At Instructure, we're constantly working to enhance the tools you rely on every day. As part of that commitment, we’re excited to announce a significant upgrade to the core infrastructure powering our DAP Query API / CD2. This upgrade will require a ...

You may have noticed that we are updating how we handle User Access Tokens. These changes have been made across the September and October deploys. I wanted to walk through all of these changes together and how they will improve institutions’ security...

Following our recent announcement about the changes to the Canvas Page Views feature, we are excited to share a major update specifically for our developer community and partners: The new PageView History API is now available in Beta! This new asynch...

We're rolling out some important updates to how Page Views are handled in Canvas, affecting both the user interface and our public APIs. These changes are designed to improve performance, accessibility, and data management, while also changing how pa...

We’re excited to release the data access platform (DAP) command line interface (CLI) referred to as DAP CLI 2.0.  For developers and data engineers that access data from Canvas Data, this is a major version update that introduces new functionality, i...

We're excited to announce the upcoming release of a new column, non_collaborative, in the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) Query API's groups and group_categories tables at 2025-06-12. This column helps clearly distinguish between standard collaborative groups an...

We’re excited to announce an update to the context_external_tools table in the Canvas namespace of the DAP Query API. On 31st of March in 2025, we will be adding a new column: unified_tool_id: A unique identifier for the external tool, helping Canvas...

We’re excited to announce the release of DAP CLI 1.4.0, which significantly boosts efficiency and ease of use by introducing multi-table operations. This release addresses a major customer pain point by allowing operations on all or selected tables w...

We’re excited to announce updates to a new table in the Canvas namespace that will be available in your CD2/DAP Query API dataset starting February 10th. These changes enrich the dataset with additional context and expand the range of supported use c...

We’re releasing DAP CLI version 1.3.1 today to address an issue that affected PostgreSQL users following our recent DAP Query API update. Yesterday, we introduced multiple new enum values across several tables in the DAP Query API, which unfortunatel...

We’re excited to announce updates to multiple tables and columns in the Canvas namespace with new enumerated values (enums) that will be available in your CD2/DAP Query API dataset starting January 9th. These changes enrich the dataset with additiona...

We are excited to announce the release of DAP CLI & Lib 1.3.0, bringing new features, enhanced functionality, and critical updates based on your feedback. This update reinforces our commitment to improving developer tools and addressing the needs of ...

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Get ready to shape the future of Instructure’s data capabilities! We’re running an Instructure Data Questionnaire to gather your valuable insights for our 2025 roadmap, focusing on cloud adoption and analytics trends. Your feedback will guide our fea...

We’re excited to introduce DAP CLI 1.2.0, featuring secure connections to MySQL and PostgreSQL, optimized memory usage for cloud environments, and improved error handling for parquet files. In addition, the CLI now logs system environment details for...

We are committed to providing a reliable and efficient service for your data needs, and as part of this commitment, we will be performing scheduled maintenance on our CD2 API infrastructure. This maintenance is essential for ensuring continued perfor...

Discover how global collaboration is driving innovation and shaping the future of Canvas LMS. Dive into the highlights of our latest discovery session and see how we're committed to enhancing the educational experience for our diverse user community.

We will be upgrading to the latest versions of jQuery and jQuery UI. If your institution uses custom JS/CSS, we recommend checking your beta instances.

Major web browsers are beginning to phase out support for third-party cookies, a change that may have a significant impact on the functionality of LTI tools integrated with learning management systems such as Canvas. Although this change will not dir...

Starting June 19th, 2024, all HTTP responses from Canvas will transition to full lowercase response header names to align with industry best practices. This change impacts API users, browser users, and other clients.

Data Access Platform (DAP) CLI and Client Library v1.1.0 is now available.  Version 1.1.0 is a fast follow to our GA release to address some community identified issues with a new feature enhancement to prepare us for future updates.

Data Access Platform CLI & Client Library is now GA

We are updating jQuery in Canvas and your custom JavaScript might break if you leverage jQuery in it

Canvas is changing its LTI 1.3 OIDC Auth domain to align with security practices and to support the new LTI 1.3 Platform Storage specification - which lets LTI tools still function even when browsers disable cross-site 3rd-party cookies. LTI 1.3 tool...

We decided to implement New Quizzes Public API in GraphQL and here's the first information you need to know about and what you can expect from us regarding the documentation of the API.

Instructure has a long history of opening the systems we build to extension and enhancement.  When we build products like Canvas, we want to make sure they work well for ALL our customers. After a long series of forays and experiments examining wheth...

Let's discuss New Quizzes Public API's foundation: GraphQL or REST? 

As I looked at my calendar this month I was reminded this May 13 (today) marks an anniversary of when LTI support was deployed to Canvas. This year will be 10 years! \o/