Is Canvas Data 2 available on the self-hosted Canvas Community version?

[JasmineQiuqiu]

Hi Community,

I am inquiring whether Canvas Data 2 is available on the self-hosted Canvas Community version. If so, how can we generate the client secret/key? It appears that the identity services for generating the secrets are only available for the Instructure-hosted instance.

Best regards,

Jasmine

[mzimmerman]

Hi @JasmineQiuqiu 

Since Canvas Data is assembled and managed by Instructure on their own servers, I highly doubt that it would be available for a self-hosted Canvas instance.

[LeventeHunyadi · Accepted solution]

Both Identity Service and Data Access Platform (a.k.a. Canvas Data, CD 2) are services run on managed infrastructure. They are not available for self-hosted Canvas.

[JasmineQiuqiu]

Thank you for the clarification. I have one follow-up question: for self-hosted community instances, are there any alternative methods to obtain student data from account level when Canvas Data 2 is not available?

[mzimmerman]

Hi @JasmineQiuqiu 

I have never worked with the self-hosted version of Canvas, but in other LMSs that I have run locally (like Blackboard), all the types of data that is included in Canvas Data could be queried directly from the back-end database used for the LMS.  The main purpose of Canvas Data is to give hosted Canvas users access to the same type of data, since they cannot go directly to the database to get it.

[JasmineQiuqiu]

Hi @mzimmerman 

Thanks a lot for this! I'll give it a try and see how it goes😀. Really appreciate your idea!!🎉🎉🎉

Best,

Jasmine