About
James
James Jones
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Professor of Mathematics
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Bio:
I'm James Jones. My full-time job is teaching mathematics at a community college, with an extra-duty assignment that involves Canvas.
I hate repetitive tasks and will spend 13 hours writing a computer program to automate something that takes 5 minutes to do. This often benefits others in the form of Canvancements, which are my Canvas Enhancments that I freely contribute to the Canvas Community.
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Update March 15, 2020.
Version 2d is now available. The only changes were to remove the mute column (Canvas deprecated that functionality in January 2020) and add a points column to change the point...
May 27, 2020, update (version 15):Another week, another update. This time I installed a new linter to check for crud and subtle issues with the code. It turned up a lot of little things and at least o...
I've written an Rubric Importer user script that will allow you to copy a rubric from a spreadsheet like Excel or Google Sheets and paste it into a textbox inside Canvas and then automatically tur...
Updated November 29, 2016, to reflect Version 3The spreadsheet now processes group discussions. They take a lot longer to process since you have to make calls for each group.If you were a user of the ...
December 8, 2018 - No Longer NeededCanvas has released their own solution for sorting the dashboard course cards. You should remove this script and use their solution. Things should continue to work u...
Most Recent Posts
@RachelR1
Generally speaking, NoOp is short for "no operation", but that doesn't make immediately make sense here.
The four types of set_types I see in the table are:
CourseSection: a...
@chriscas, thanks for providing the solution.
I didn't actually check it, but I'm pretty sure my code linter would complain about ternary operators not being needed (that's not the exa...
@wguida
I don't use the Live API, but I went and checked. Yes, there is a problem with it.
If you open the Developer Tools console and reload the page, there are a bunch of warnings about mis...
@knoxd
The pages may be related, but it shouldn't be the submission record that was missing. However, it could be another record that is missing.
You can try unpublishing and republishing th...
@cms_hickss
I did use a script once I verified a few by hand. I hate repetitive tasks and with 680 assignments spread across 80 courses, I wasn't going to do it by hand. We're a small sch...
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