canvas-javascript-courseFullListFilter

This is a userscript designed to replace the Canvas LMS' "Courses List" with a complete filterable and paginated list.

Canvas LMS - REST API and Extensions Documentation

Table of Contents

• Changelog
• Dependencies
• Warning
• How-To Use

Changelog

7/7/2017

• Fixed Sorting function issue where numbers were not being properly accounted for

6/29/2017

• Added Filter by Teacher(s)

6/14/2017

• Renamed the script file for easier installation to userscript managers
• Added @updateURL to the header
• Fixed filtering issue where two results in a row would result in the second result being ignored
• Split all lines to be ~80 characters in length (tab = 4 spaces)
  • Note: I didn't use a script so that I could try to add readability as I went through and did this
  • I didn't enforce this if it was 1-2 character past
• Fixed a few comments, primarily surrounding function returns
• Added convertList function with option to toggle it or replaceList
• Separated the list table building into the buildListTable function
• Removed unused global variables
• Added optional filtering/display labels

Dependencies

• Userscript Manager
  • Tampermonkey (Chrome)
  • Tampermonkey (Firefox)
  • Greasemonkey (Firefox)

Warning

• Because the Canvas API limits the amount of data and information that can be retrieved from a single API call, a subaccount with a lot of courses will take more time to load.
• To keep the loading time to a minimum, only the data pulled from retrieving all pages of /api/v1/accounts/:account_id/courses is used in generating that compiled course list.
  • Student Count and Assigned Teachers are not displayed due to this limitation

How-To Use

1. Load the userscript to your Userscript Manger of choice
2. Enabled the userscript
3. Access the "Courses List" of any subaccount in the Canvas LMS
4. Use the filters to narrow your results:
   • Course Name: Accepts multiple terms and compares them against the Course Name of all shells for matches of all terms (case-insensitive) for a complete match. (i.e., If you search for "WORKING 201701", it'll return "201701 Miami Working ENG480" because it contains "WORKING" AND "201701", but it won't return "201701 Miami Sandbox ENG480" because it is missing the "WORKING" term.)
   • Teacher(s): Accepts multiple terms and compares them against all Teacher(s) of each shell (case-insensitive) for a complete match. (i.e., If you search for "Smith Jones", it'll return courses with: "Aaron Smith" and "Jones McMillion"; "James Smithemson" and "Eric Jones"; "Smith Jones"; "Jones Smith")
   • Term Filter: This is literally a clone() of the default Canvas term filter, but it now serves this system (which doesn't have to reload the page when changing filters).
   • Sort By: Mostly a clone of the Canvas sorter, but with the ability to sort by the "Course Code", in addition to the original "Course Name" and "Creation Date" options.
   • Display x Shells: How many courses do you want to see per page? The default is 50, but additional options are 10, 25, 100, and All (All is not recommended for large subaccounts!).