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We’re excited to announce the release of DAP CLI 2.1.0, bringing smarter performance handling, improved stability, and even emoji support 🎉. As part of our ongoing commitment to improving the Data Access Platform (DAP) experience, this update makes the CLI more resilient, reliable, and user-friendly — especially for…
Our organization has been asked to provide data and reporting on student activity in Canvas, essentially the number of times a student has accessed courses and resources. The activity is stored in the "web_logs" table which records granular actions, similar to api calls and http requests. There is an abundance of noise in…
Hi @All we installed canvaslms in ubuntu 22.04 for production environment. and we did setup for uat also. means if anything goes wrong we will take production backups and we will replace it in uat and we will up the server. in that case what we need to take backups of canvaslms. some of articles suggesting take…
Hey folks I've finally managed to wrestle all of my DAP queries into Power Bi dataflows, and it was quite an ordeal. I'm currently using dataflows with DAP as a surrogate databasing solution as we do not currently have access to a SQL server that can store our info, otherwise I would probably be fetching this data using…
Earlier this month, we announced the infrastructure upgrade powering the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) / DAP Query API, to Snowflake. We’re excited to share that this transition is progressing as planned and brings significant improvements in data fidelity, scalability, and performance. As we have finalized the migration plan for…
At Instructure, we're constantly working to enhance the tools you rely on every day. As part of that commitment, we’re excited to announce a significant upgrade to the core infrastructure powering our DAP Query API / CD2. This upgrade will require a maintenance outage, read below for the detailed schedule per region.…
I'm using the ID from a teacher trial account to make the endpoint POST (/api/v1/accounts/:account_id/courses) and when I attempt to create a new course, everything looks to work but I'm not seeing the course being created. Anyone know if the API POST's will work with a trial account?
Hi, I am a website developer, and my company would like to integrate the Wordpress with Canvas. Let's say a student have an account on my website, and he doesn't need to register canvas anymore, he can access canvas directly via my website's account. However, I googled and haven't found any solution for it. Anyone can help…
Weâre excited to release the data access platform (DAP) command line interface (CLI) referred to as DAP CLI 2.0. For developers and data engineers that access data from Canvas Data, this is a major version update that introduces new functionality, improves usability, and lays the groundwork for better support and…
We're excited to announce the upcoming release of a new column, non_collaborative, in the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) Query API's groups and group_categories tables. This column helps clearly distinguish between standard collaborative groups and the newly introduced "tags," providing enhanced clarity and control for institutions.…
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