Canvas LMS/Quick Reference

API web listing

insert /doc/api/live at the end of your domain in the URL field of a browser

https://<canvasdomain>/doc/api/live

Gives you a fantastic listing of available API commands, implementation notes, descriptions of the classes, and parameters. Fantastic!

undelete items from course

insert courses/courseid/undelete at the end of your domain in the URL field of a browser
courseid is a variable you'll need to look up.

https://<canvasdomain>/courses/courseid/undelete

exposes the last 25 items you deleted from the course and lets your restore them.

Python QTI Migration Tool

Required for importing quizzes that are exported in QTI format (canvas default).

~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y python-pip libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-dev
~$ sudo pip install lxml
~$ cd /var/canvas/vendor 
~/var/canvas/vendor$ git clone https://github.com/instructure/QTIMigrationTool.git QTIMigrationTool
~/var/canvas/vendor$ cd ./QTIMigrationTool/
~/var/canvas/vendor/QTIMigrationTool$ sudo chown canvasuser ./migrate.py
~/var/canvas/vendor/QTIMigrationTool$ sudo chmod +x ./migrate.py
~/var/canvas/vendor/QTIMigrationTool$ cd /var/canvas/script/
~/var/canavs/script$ sudo chown canvasuser ./delayed_job
~/var/canvas/script$ sudo su canvasuser
~/var/canvas/script$ ./delayed_job restart