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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…
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…
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.…
Following our recent announcement about the changes to the Canvas Page Views feature, we are excited to share a major update specifically for our developer community and partners: The new PageView History API is now available in Beta! This new asynchronous API is designed to solve the need for accessing large volumes of…
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.…
Hi All, I recently started working on LTI 1.3 with Canvas, created a student, assigned a course, paired with an observer. Once logged in as the observer, looked into id_token claims and the claim "https://purl.imsglobal.org/spec/lti/claim/role_scope_mentor" is returning Student LTI 1.1 user_id. May I know if there is a way…
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…
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