How to find which Collaboration tool was used (specifically EtherPad)?

Question

With the end of life of EtherPad, I'd like to find a list of instructors that have been using it so we can reach out to them.  I don't see that information in the Collaborative API (Canvas LMS REST API Documentation).  Anyone know where/if this information can be found?

unknown · Answer

Hi  @mlewis23 ,

I am going through having a look at some of the early days in the Canvas Developers group, and checking in to see if older enquiries have been answered. I also noticed there hasn’t been any discussion on this question in quite some time.

I am wondering, were you ever able to resolve this?

I will mark this as assumed answered for the time being, however, by all means please let us know if you still have an outstanding question and we will take a peek!

Cheers,
Stuart

lalevesque · Answer

Hi Matt,

We had a similar situation recently where our K-12 admins wanted to know what students were using/viewing Etherpads and what the addresses of the Etherpads were. Since there is/was no administration tools for Etherpad, this presented a unique problem.

What we came up with was a python script to crawl through all Student users' page views for the last 90 days looking for any page view with 'etherpad' in the name. We used this call to retrieve them:

GET /api/v1/users/:user_id/page_views

This netted us about 10 different etherpads we were unaware of and mostly answered the question.

Now that we're involved in the Hosted Data Beta program, we're able to look at page views from around 1 year ago and see etherpads visited since then.

Hopefully that sheds some light on this issue.

scottdennis · Answer

Just FYI; If you are using Etherpad in Canvas, please see the Canvas Production Release Notes (2015-05-16)  for an important update on the plan to discontinue the use of Etherpad integration in Canvas as of August 8th.