API to get courses, quizzes, modules, submission after CD1 shutdown

[hsun1]

We are using Canvas API to retrieve some courses, quizzes, modules, assignments and gradebook etc.

For instance, 

use API -> https://newhaven.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/25238/assignments to get all assignments of course 25238

use API -> https://newhaven.instructure.com/api/v1/accounts/self/courses/25238 to get course 25238

use APi -> https://newhaven.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/25238/assignments/459831/submissions to get all submissions of assignments 459831 on course 25238

and so one...

I am not quite sure what or where the "dataset" that those API actually point to (CD1 or CD2).

Since Canvas Data 1 will be shutdown by December 31, 2023, Can we still be able to use the above API to get the data as usual ? If not then how can we get the same information as above on CD2 ? new API ? new token ?

Thanks for any help

Rose Sun 

[jerry_nguyen · Accepted solution]

@hsun1 

Canvas API and Canvas Data are 2 separate services. When you make a request to an API endpoint, you are interacting with Canvas LMS directly, and the data that returns is up-to-date. 

While Canvas Data is good for analytics (E.g. get data site-wide), data from Canvas Data 2 has a latency of 2 hours. 

You can get the same data through Canvas Data, once you loaded the data to a database you can run different queries to pull the data that you need. 

Feel free to send me a PM if you need help setting up Canvas Data 2.

[hsun1]

Hi, Jerry,

Thank you so much for your prompt response and your answer clear all my confusion here.

I have tried to set up the client id/secret and use postman to get an JWT but the response is 403k "Forbidden; invalid authentication data". I think it maybe because our school UNH did not have Canvas Data 2 setup yet so far.  correct ?

I think CD2 may be a great opportunity for us to establish our "LMS warehouse" in the future. I will let my boss know about this in no time.

Thanks, Rose

[jerry_nguyen]

@hsun1 

You will need to create a token key to access CD2 here: https://identity.instructure.com/login then either pull data through API or CLI tool.

You might need to contact your CSM to enable Canvas Data 2 for your instance.