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Hello All, As a part of the recent migration to the new Canvas Community a number of previously redirected links no longer are functioning. Due to this we needed to start a process to find and replace these links in our course. Our choice in method to do this was to use a combination of Tableau and Canvas Data in…
A few months ago, I associated several hundred courses to a blueprint course using the Canvas API. While all of the courses were successfully associated with the blueprint course, I have since discovered that only some of the newly associated courses synced with it. Consequently, most of the newly associated courses…
Hello, I am trying to query a course ID to check if it was cross listed. Do you know what is the data field to get this information or what query or API endpoint to use? I tried to use nonxlist_course_id, but received error 'doesn't exist on type course'.
https://api.badges.parchment.com/v2/users/{idOrEntityId} Hi. What type of ID should I be using to get the badges and pathway progress for a particular user? I have used all the SIS ID, or the ID as shown on the badger portal, but nothing is working. What kind of the ID does the API calls accept? please give an example.
Hello, We use PeopleSoft and developed an integration for retrieving grades from the Canvas API. It was working fine in dev and production but has since broken. The SSL handshake is failing according to this stack trace from the server : Apparently this can happen if the required certificates are missing, can anyone tell…
Is it possible to list the admin accounts for a user? There is an API for listing admins for an account (see https://developerdocs.instructure.com/services/canvas/resources/admins#method.admins.index) but we want to go the other way and list which accounts a user has admin access to.
Hi I am very very new to Canvas. I have some API experience using Msft Power Automate. I would prefer not to use pagination and would rather filter my results from the get-go. How do I filter the users based on their email address… say in: https://MySite.instructure.com/api/v1/accounts/1/users/ Would the regular Odata…
Hello, I am new to the API and DAP. Is there any easy way to calculate current marks for students? It sounds simple but it looks like a complicated calculation, roughly the average of all required assignments mapped to a mark using the grading scheme for the section. Is there a handy GitHub repo that I can leverage? Thanks…
Hello, when I make this call to get sections for an 'unpublished' course, the response code received is 200 with a blank response. However, when I pull up the same course on the webapp, there is one section. This call does work for 'published' courses. How do I get the sections for an 'unpublished' course?
This behavior has been resolved and deployed to the production environment as of 11/6/25. Description If a user sends a page_views.query API request with the parameter “results_format": "json", the following error is thrown: “error": "Page Views received an invalid or malformed request." Expected Behavior The…
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