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We are thrilled to announce a major expansion of the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) / DAP Query API datasets: the dedicated availability of data for New Quizzes (NQ)! This release is a direct result of our ongoing commitment to enhance data extensibility and transparency for our community. The new new_quizzes namespace is officially…
Introduction and Research Context In complex humanitarian emergencies, the static deployment of resources often fails to address the rapidly shifting vulnerabilities of affected populations. My research project focuses on developing an algorithmic Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) Prioritization System for the…
Hello everyone, I was wondering if there is a way for the Canvas LMS to track the specific amount of time that a student spends on each assignment in a course. I am not referring to page views, I'm referring to gathering the date, time in minutes, seconds, and hours that a student spent working on each assignment in a…
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…
Important Update! Due to technical reasons in our backend, we need to schedule earlier for March 9 the submissions table schema update to prevent data loss. —-We're excited to announce several enhancements to the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) / DAP Query API across the canvas and canvas_logs namespaces. These updates expand the…
I'm trying to find a way to print out a PDF (or csv or other file I can turn into a PDF) of the student responses from a self-evaluation made with New Quizzes so that it can be shared or printed for student conference purposes. I don't see any way to get the student responses out of Canvas at all. The threads asking about…
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.…
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