This is a follow-up of my last post on the community forum here,https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/Self-host-amp-Install-Canvas-LMS-on-your-own-server/td-p/575826Following the production guide created by Instructure for Canvas...

Are you going to be at InstructureCon 2024?  Do you have interest in meeting some fellow developer-type people in-person?  We have arranged 2 different opportunities to connect this year!

Using CD2, it is possible to find out who made an anonymous post and who has read the post.

We are using the following code to hide the anonymous discussion options at this time.  We will re-evaluate making this available in the future, but are not ready to support this functionality at this time since the identity of the student is also hi...

I am creating this blog as an area where we can share links to code repositories and projects with each other, as we discussed in the developers meetup yesterday.  If you have a project website, GitHub, etc that others might find useful, please share...

Years ago I used the API to find which LTI tools were used in a course, then switched to CD1 and now I'm using CD2.  I built a Tableau report with several filters, including: Type of course: sis, non-sis or allState of the course: published, unpublis...

I created a blog post in 2020 explaining how to bulk load and sync Canvas Avatar images using Powershell. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/How-to-bulk-load-and-update-avatar-profile-pictures-with/ba-p/410101 Since then, I've...

I am working to have an AI LLM (ChatGPT 3.5 or better) generate QTI 2.1 XML that I can copy-paste into text files then ZIP and upload to Canvas to create Item Banks in New Quizzes.I have been successful in getting ChatGPT to generate a set of test qu...

Sit back, relax, and let n8n do (most of) the tedious admin tasks for you. N8N is an open-source workflow automation tool that empowers you to harness the capabilities of Canvas backend systems, including Canvas API, Canvas Data, and Live Data, to st...

Hello, Canvas Community!I'm thrilled to announce the R package called "vvcanvas". This package provides a convenient interface to interact with the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) API, enabling users to authenticate, retrieve course informati...

Learn about some of the new features that I built and released in v3.0.0 of the Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) Chrome extension to provide course level reports primarily about course content.  The code for the extension is open-source if you would like to v...

Learn about some of the new features that I built and released in v3.0.0 of the Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) Chrome extension to enhance the experience of creating/editing rubrics.  The code for the extension is open-source if you would like to view and/o...

Hi all, I've deployed an LTI 1.3 tool as a Discussion Topic Menu, and when I click the menu item in my course, I get back a json result, but I can't find the Discussion Topic ID in the json results.   Does anyone else have experience working with LTI...

I recently updated my Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) Chrome extension to provide some new enhancements to the course search and admin flyout menu inspired by ideas and requests I have seen from other users in the community.

It's few months that I don't access the Canvas app installed on OVH VPS server. I tried now and it shows the directory of files, but not the login interface. Nothings has been changed since the last time I use it (december 2022)

Hi all,I would like to attach a zip file to all of my students submissions. I have been able to upload the file via the Cavnas API. However, I cannot seem to get the file to attach a student's submission. Acccording to https://canvas.instructure.com/...

I need an access token to grab a list of line items during the LTI1.3 workflow. I am currently receiving an unsupported grant type error.I have seen claims that Canvas does not support this flow to issue access tokens for machine to machine API use.L...

I'm a teacher, and I've been playing with the api in a few other sheets that I've found. It's got me wondering if I could use a google sheet with a series of my gradebooks brought from other sheets, and have it update the grades in canvas.

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I have a suggestion for a couple new features that I know i would use frequently. I believe other students would as well. It is efficient and time saving, also would help navigate us through what we have completed over our time in school, our past an...

Hi Im a Canvas Admin, for a University I am requesting a design feature for Canvas, is it possible to add a points total option to appear on the Assignments modules for each category or the GradeBook total column? I have instructors with 25 to 40 ass...

Dear Canvas This is Wasta, I am using Canvas app which my school provides me to takes the video lecture but on my Ipad (IOS 15) generation 8 ,as I open the video there is no audio in the video , only when I start the video there is a sound but as soo...

Dear Canvas Dear CanvasThis is Wasta, I am using Canvas app which my school provides me to takes the video lecture but on my Ipad (IOS 15) generation 8 ,as I open the video there is no audio in the video , only when I start the video there is a sound...

My team is trying to replicate in one of our views how Canvas presents TODOs in its own UI. The TODO items endpoint (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/users.html#method.users.todo_items) appears to be the correct one to use, although it's unclea...

I want to know how to use the webhook subscription api, including all the context types and such. 

I need an api endpoint that returns a course image url.

Learn about the Chrome extension that I've been developing as a personal side project to use with Canvas LMS to add some new features and help improve workflows.  Most of the customizations so far are for the admin area of Canvas, but I am now workin...

“Computer Vision” sounds like something from the future, though computer vision algorithms are not as fantastic as they seem to be. Starting from 1960-ies and up to today, computer vision was developing along with AI ideas and culminated in today’s h...

Hi Everyone,Great to be part of this community, Im IT Support for Horizon Christian School, and would love to share an app i made for the school.Not sure were to post this, so hopefully ok here.I have created an application with a Settings file that ...

I want a test question type that I will call a mastery question. This kind of question will allow me to randomize the input numbers so that the answer can be calculated by Canvas but will be different every time for every student. For example, ...If ...