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canvas-grade-uploader
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A simple tool to handle grade uploading to Canvas, a learning management system.
The grade uploader works well as a command line tool. If you're using it this way be sure to use the -g
option:
npm install -g canvas-grade-uploader
There are two use cases:
grade-uploader [leave blank for short help]
usage: grade-uploader [-h] [-v] -c COURSE_ID -a ASSIGNMENT_ID -f FILE [-u URL] -t
TOKEN [-uid {"",sis_login_id,sis_user_id}]
grade-uploader -t [token] -c 1268501 -a 7148451 -f ~/Desktop/Midterm_scores.csv
var postGrades = require('canvas-grade-uploader');
postGrades(options, data, callback); // See below for options
NOTE The module interface is currently a work in progress.
The grade uploader uploads grades to a specific Canvas assignment. To do this a few details are required. The command line help will walk you through most of them.
Canvas assignment and course IDs are easily obtained from the URL of the assignments page.
For example:
https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1268501/assignments/7148451
https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/
1268501
7148451
Canvas authenticates users with Oauth Tokens. You can generate a token for yourself by visiting your personal settings page. There is Canvas documentation about generating your own token.
The short version is: Visit this page.
https:/<canvas-instance>/profile/settings
This tool was built to speed up working with Gradescope
The CSV file requires the following values:
FAQs
Upload a CSV file of grades to Canvas
The npm package canvas-grade-uploader receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, canvas-grade-uploader popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that canvas-grade-uploader demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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