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How to determine Assignment owner/creator via API?
Hi, this seems like such a basic question that I feel like I must be missing something, but I checked the documentation and forums and could not find anything. Apologies in advance if this is documented somewhere. When retrieving an assignment via API through the "Get a single assignment" endpoint…
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API call for getting all SpeedGrader comments for a course?
Hi, I'd like to help an instructor gather all of their SpeedGrader comments in their course. This is so they can create a text library and use it for future commenting. Any help would be appreciated! I was able to see one assignment: url: GET…
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API for discussion posts from one author?
Hi, I'd like to help an instructor gather all of their posts and replies they made in every discussion in their course. This is so they can create a text library and use it for future commenting. Any help would be appreciated. I figured I'd start smaller and try for one discussion. And then try the entire course. But, I…
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Deleting user from account
Hi! I am curious to know how other institutions are managing user accounts for teachers, students, observers who: * were enrolled but now are not (withdrawn)? * come back and are now reinstated? I THINK I would like all withdrawn users to be deleted from our account but I believe this could cause an issue if the deleted…
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How to unenroll or remove Test Student in a course
Testing Student View functionality I realised that the fake user which is created when you get into that functionality is never removed from the enrollment list. Is there a way to do that? This is what I've seen. I have a course with an Instructor and a Learner enrolled. When I ask for the enrollment list this is what I…
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Mid-Term Grades emails
Anyone know of a way to email student's their Canvas grades at certain points in the semester? Like mid-term grades?
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LtiDeepLinkingResponse is not creating line items
Hi everyone! I'm building an LTI 1.3 integration with Canvas. I'm having some trouble because line items associated with the LtiDeepLinkingResponse I'm sending back to Canvas are not creating those expected line items or entries in the grade book. These are the steps I'm following I have configured a valid developer key…
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Confusion with the LTI LineItem service
The more I test the LTI LineItem service in Canvas, the more confused I seem to become. I have already reported in a separate post about line items I create not being visible within the Canvas Gradebook. Now I am finding that, if I create a line item without associating it with a resource link ID, as well as creating the…
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LTI LineItem not visible in Gradebook
When I use the LTI LineItems service to create a line item associated with a resource link ID, the line item is created (it is returned when making a GET request to the LineItems service endpoint) but does not appear on the Grades page for the course. The line item automatically created by Canvas for my assignment is…
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Using API endpoints for Quizzes
I am developing an external app that starts a quiz, retrieves the questions, then saves/updates the responses, and finally, completes the quiz, using various API Endpoints. There does not appear to be any type of workflow documentation for this process, so my methodology is basically to "try this and see what happens". For…
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Canvas API - link outcomes with quizzes
Hi, I am trying to find a way through data returned by the API to link learning outcomes with quizzes, however based on the data returned by each of the APIs I have been unable to find it. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks.
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Interesting projects you're working on?
I'm wondering what kinds of projects others are doing with the Canvas API. I know we're all using scripts and plugins to do reporting, enrolling, and other wrangling, but is anyone working on something out of the main line? For instance, we've created a more robust interface for aggregating and displaying student Outcome…
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Microsoft Teams Meetings LTI App in Canvas - editing permission
Greetings, community. We have piloted the subject LTI app in our prod environment, and exercised numerous interations in both test and beta, per the following: Use Microsoft Teams meetings with Canvas | Microsoft Docs We would like to change permissions such that a student can't Edit a scheduled meeting displayed in the…
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District Gradebook Submissions Report via API
As a fully virtual school for 12,500 students across grades K-12, a part of our "compliance" grade is determining * how many assignments has the student been assigned per course* how many per assignment group per course * out of __ assignments, ___ were completed with a (%) value provided * what was their individualized…
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Updating Page content with Python and Canvas API?
Hello all - Relatively new member to Canvas and the API. I have some programming background but am also new to Python. We have a course template (not a Blueprint) that we use as the source for all our core course layout. One of the Pages has content about our library. That content needs to be updated in all our active…