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I'm running a self-hosted Canvas LMS instance production version and I'd like to set up Canvas Data Services to subscribe to webhooks (live events) via HTTPS or AWS SQS. In the official Canvas documentation, the instructions typically reference hosted environments. My question is: * Is the "Canvas Data Services" and Live…
Hi- I keep getting this error. Any ideas? canvasDataCli sync -c config.js fetching current list of files from API... no files exist for account, cannot sync an error occured [ApiError] { errorCode: 404,
Our LTI Tool needs to be able to react to user accounts being merged but I'm not seeing that there is a Data Services event for this. There is a user_updated (https://vumc-camhl.instructure.com/doc/api/file.data_service_canvas_user.html#user_updated) event but this only shows 3 workflow states (deleted, pre_registered,…
Hi, I have heard that it is possible to distinguish Canvas users who are added by an SIS process vs. manually added users. We would like to know what the relevant Canvas data attribute would be to distinguish them. We need to remove some previously added SIS TAs who are no longer assigned that role, but our SIS process…
I was trying to create some analytics around quiz submissions across multiple courses, but I noted that quiz_submission_dim and _fact don't match. Delving deeper I find that submissions to quizzes that are not graded assignments are only included in the dim but not the fact table. (Some stats below) Is this an inherent bug…
Currently, we are trying to use the live event webhooks to send notifications to users of our app. When an event occurs Canvas hits our API, the API parses out the needed info (like user_id) and makes a request to an internal API that sends a push notification to our app users. We are testing this out first with the Grades…
Is it possible to create a data stream (what we would normally create in the Data Services tab using the UI) on behalf of the user? I've checked the API documentation and I couldn't quite find any endpoints that would assist in the creation/retrieval of information concerning data streams for an organization. It would be…
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