Hammer of the Gods: Content Distribution for Non-Coders

[caweisbart]

Are you afraid of pushing course content in bulk to a group of courses? You should be! In this session, we’ll share some techniques and simple editable scripts that allow non-coders to distribute content from a model course to a group of other courses, including some common dangers and pitfalls.

Presenter: Chris Weisbart​ - Pasadena City College

Location Map & Room: SILVERADO 2

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[ben_mcmurry]

This was by far the most entertaining breakout session yet. Plus, the content was great. I'll definitely be looking at using postman with the canvas APIs.

[caweisbart]

Thanks!  let us know if you have any questions!

-Chris & Jason

[dwillmore]

Chris and Jason,

It was a very entertaining session.  Would you be willing to share your presentation file in comments?

[cms_hickss]

I enjoyed your session and Like  @dwillmore ​ has asked, when you have a moment can you please share your presentation slides. Thank you.

[caweisbart]

Sure thing guys!  We turned in our keynote file and were told it will be available when the videos of the session are released. That will probably be more useful, since it will include the lecture.  I'll post when i hear it's available! Thanks again for attending the session!

[caweisbart]

Sure thing guys!  We turned in our keynote file and were told it will be available when the videos of the session are released. That will probably be more useful, since it will include the lecture.  I'll post when i hear it's available! Thanks again for attending the session!

[bacherts]

This is one I really wanted to see, but didn't make it!  Heard some good things on the Canvas Podcast about this session!

[CommunityTeam]

The session video is now available at:

[John_Lowe]

Sorry if I missed this somehow in the video, but *why* did you need to use Google Sheets to create the .CSV file instead of just saving the .CSV file from Excel or any plain text editor?

[caweisbart]

Hi John,

The reason we need to use google sheets is that the file needs Unix-style newline characters, and if you use various desktop applications it may not be encoded properly. The easiest way to do this is with google sheets, but any text editor that can produce the right encoding should work.

hope that helps!

Chris Weisbart

caweisbart@pasadena.edu

[mckeebru]

If you use Notepad++ (Notepad Plus Plus) as a text editor you can chose from the Encoding tab to save as ANSI, UTF-8 or UTF-8 without BOM. I would guess that one of these would be the correct format.