About

themidiman
Jeffrey Anderson
Rank:
Community Champion
Title:
Software Developer Senior
Joined:
Apr 1, 2015 2:13:57 PM
Posts:
376
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42
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Bio:
I've worked in ed tech software training and development since the late 1990's. I love to teach coding to brand new coders. I've been using Canvas since it's inception in Arizona in 2011.

Most Liked Posts

All the comments so far are right on par, but I'm going to repeat some just for making sure they are getting acknowledged: RCE Parity - This is already an acknowledgment made by Instructure, so I&...
Likes: 38
@KatieBertel , I've noticed this too. If there was a change to remove the display of the first student who submitted, I would be really mad. I use this all the time to get a jump on grading ea...
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Yes, I should have clarified that the training for each user of 'editing each assignment and adding the external tool' process is going to be the painful part. We realize that at the moment fo...
Likes: 7
Thanks ErinThis is the best explanation so far I've heard. It's nice to know that Instructure recognizes that it's a difficult problem to solve and a story behind the current choice. It...
Likes: 7
When you start messing with the default DOM in Canvas, you should probably realize that CSS ids can exist on multiple views. In our instance we put our support number on the login page and the dashboa...
Likes: 7

Most Recent Posts

@BenBenson , in addition to what @chriscas has been doing for you, perhaps you could ask your institution to see what the cost would be in your contract agreement with Instructure to spin up a...
Apr 04, 2025 08:24 AM
I'm searching through the API documentation and can't seem to find a way to list all the outcomes used in rubrics at the course level. The reason I'm posting is that I'm doing a bit of...
Apr 02, 2025 11:18 AM
I just figured this out...it's the Users-manage students permission. Just in case anyone is wondering. 
Mar 26, 2025 17:11 PM
I'm asking on behalf of an instructor who teaches for a college besides ours. She likes to divide up her course roster into sections using the 'Add Section'  feature. But she doesn't h...
Mar 26, 2025 16:29 PM
Since the original poster @jmohr1 asked about a Python solution...I think I discovered one using the UCF Python Module that might be useful in the future: from canvasapi import Canvas API_URL ...
Mar 05, 2025 09:02 AM

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