HACK NIGHT (instcon16)

[jordan]

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HACK NIGHT

This is the event where programmers, engineers, LMS admins, app developers, and other nerds collaborate to squash bugs, fix things, make them better, you know… hack Canvas. Since this is right after dinner you’ll probably be full, but there will be a cash bar if you’re thirsty!

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[julian]

So guys and gals......what are we going to hack up this year?

Would love to hear some ideas or code that you plan to bring with you.

See you on the night.

JR

[carrie]

Pokémon Go integration.

[james_vlisides]

Is this a serious opportunity? What would it look like? haha

[brenden_goetz]

I'll be hacking away with Canvas Hosted Data and Tableau! Hoping to meet up with some other data folks who are also using Tableau... ready for a long night of viz building!

[carrie]

Hmmm...something for GIS studies?

[victor]

Remember to pick up the T-Rex pin!

[victor]

Would be cool if we can track which students or how many turn on/utilize close captioning.

[jbrady2]

Thanks to Andrew and Nathan for all of the info on building, testing, and implementing LTI apps.  I have a lot of work ahead, but I know it will be fun. Already bookmarking the websites you both provided.

[yotebrarian]

Thanks to everyone for sharing your ideas and expertise at Hack Night. You all are so incredibly helpful. I am learning so much!

[mjohnson3]

Literally just got back from hack night, but it was SO worth it.  Got to spend a lot of time talking with folks about support and learned so much about the work that goes on behind the scenes of Service Cloud/SalesForce.  This was my first hack night and I really look forward to future ones!

[garth]

A big thank you to all the Canvas staff who showed up to talk to everyone.

I had many good conversations, and was able to get some good information regarding a project I am tackling.

A big thank you to Luke for walking me through Roll Call, and to Deactivated user for allowing me to bend his ear.

This entire InstructureCon 2016​ event has been very helpful.

[tr_jbates]

The Hack Night was amazing!  I didn't have an idea for a project, but I ended up meeting a bunch of great people and helping someone get started with creating custom CSS for their Canvas instance!

[beth_ritter-gut]

Hack night was, by far, the best event I have attended, and I have attended lots of great events!!!!

[lane_worrall]

Hack night was incredible!  A HUGE thanks to ryant​ for his amazing help adding a login with Google button to the Canvas login screen for our instance!  I am so pumped!

[kschneider25]

That sounds so interesting. Please share or is it a session for next year's InstructureCon?

[erica_hartman]

Are you ever coming back lol

On Thursday, July 21, 2016, lane.worrall@msdk12.net <instructure@jiveon.com>

[lane_worrall]

Noooooo!!! 

[lane_worrall]

I'd be happy to share once we iron out some of the design/"prettiness" details--right now it's super basic, but I'll let you know once I have something that's shareable!

[mmitchell]

Hack Night was too chaotic IMGO (in my grumpy opinion). I couldn't find a seat or a power source. I'm happy that others enjoyed it but for me it was too much.

Could it move to a bigger venue next year?

[Stef_retired]

 @mmitchell , that's great feedback--could you put it in the discussion InstructureCon 2016 Post-Conference Feedback along with any other observations you might have about the conference?

[tdw]

well, this is well after the event, but I had to do a little bit of code cleanup.

I had the pleasure of working with  @tim_hass ​ to write a script that hides certain admin navigation items from custom admin roles.  It was a fun process to think through and step through.  We ended up *this close* to something that was functioning, but alas, we didn't completely finish.  But now, with a little advisement from Instructure support I think we're ready to go (turns out we forgot to account for API pagination!).

Anyways, the code we wrote was pretty specific for them.  I've taken it and abstracted it a bit and published it on github.

GitHub - thedannywahl/canvas-remove-admin-items-by-role: Canvas Remove Admin Items by Role

Happy hacking!

[mmitchell]

Good idea! Thanks Stefanie.

[DrNufer]

Thanks for sharing, Danny!

[bdoriot]

Thanks for the opportunity to share and learn. Had a great conversation with Deactivated user​ about some annotation tools and the Canvas app.