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Greetings, When adding a developer key to Canvas, 'Paste JSON' is an option. I've worked with several vendors who use this option. Knowing nuggets about the JSON syntax has been helpful, for example knowing that adding "Default": "disabled", to the course navigation placement allows instructors to choose if the tool is in…
Hi, We want to create a custom dashboard view that leverages outcomes to show learners what they have done, where they are going, and the complete "path". When a user logs on, they see in a glance what they should be doing. For reference, there are 8 courses with a total of 180 lessons. Every assignment can be tied to an…
I'm using this command: dap initdb --connection-string postgresql://USER:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT/DB --namespace NS --table access_tokens But I get this error (it's the same for any table): 2023-12-14 04:55:37,658 - ERROR - database connection error: unknown type: pg_catalog.json I think this is looking for a data type called…
Has anyone put together a list of columns in Canvas that contain embedded JSON data? So far, all I have is: ASSESSMENT_QUESTIONS.QUESTION_DATA QUIZ_SUBMISSIONS.SUBMISSION_DATA QUIZ_QUESTIONS.ANSWERS
Hi everyone, I'm trying to create a (somewhat) up-to-date OpenAPI3 specification (here) for the Canvas API, to use it with an OpenAPI3 Haskell code generator (here) to generate a Haskell client library for the API. My questions: Is it specified somewhere which fields in the JSON objects, that are returned from API calls,…
Hi there, I have started setting up a Google Script environment to handle certain things via the Canvas API for my team. So far, I created only POST/PUT requests which are working just fine. Now I wanted to implement a GET request, however, the response returns HTML code instead of JSON data. The request works fine in…
I am a student. I am trying to build a tool that optimizes a student's work schedule. For that, I need to pull a student's calendar events. However, I could not find a python API wrapper implementation for this, so I tried to use requests to get the data. Unlike courses data, the base URL…
I've been at this for the past 5 hours... I'm trying to upload questions from a JSON file to Canvas via Canvas' API, but all I can get is a blank, dummy-placeholder question. I am using cURL. Below is my JSON, cURL command, and output. What am I doing wrong!? { "question": { "question_name": "Question 1", "question_text":…
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