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Alex Wilson
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A Canvas Admin in California

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Hi Robert, The short answer is no--Canvas doesn't provide an out-of-the-box way for you to hide content from a student taking a quiz. Even if it did, depending on your school's settings, stude...
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Hi Chris, I'll take up the mantle of being that "someone else." At my institution, we've had to deal with these sorts of duel-role considerations with LTI tools a few times. Unfortunat...
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Hi @ameriwether, You can use SIS IDs wherever Canvas would accept an ID by prepending it with sis_{thing}_id:. For example, to get a course with the SIS ID of "2242-BIOL-101-01-1234," you ...
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I know this post is now several years old, though it was the first result when I was searching for any kind of way to interact with the Canvas Plagiarism Framework through the API. I managed to find a...
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Hi @rcreadii  If you're creating an app that is going to be in use by multiple users, you need to use the OAuth 2 authentication flow to obtain access tokens. Asking users to create a personal...
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The enrollments API is probably what you're looking for. It includes each enrollment as well as a student's current grade and final grade as calculated by Canvas. Here's what I get by doin...
Sep 19, 2024 10:47:10 AM
Hey @padgett4, Canvas Credentials was another service that Instructure acquired a few years ago, Badgr. From what it looks like, Canvas Credentials has its own API separate from the Canvas API: ht...
Jul 17, 2024 4:18:08 PM
I'm seeing the same behavior you are. Usually, at this point, I'd dig into the source code for Canvas, but New Quizzes isn't open source, so I can't say anything definitively. Here'...
Jul 17, 2024 2:11:17 PM
In my experience, the number of courses I get back from the public courses index is typically much smaller than the results I get back from the accounts API, though it's possible my school's C...
Jul 17, 2024 1:14:56 PM
I'm pretty sure those newer analytics features are only available for Instructure-hosted Canvas. New Analytics and Admin Analytics are technically LTI tools and not actually part of the Canvas ins...
Jul 16, 2024 3:44:43 PM

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