Canvas Discussion

This project pulls via the Canvas API the discussions from the specified Canvas course and exports it as CSV. The columns exported are:

• 'author_id',
• 'author_name',
• 'post_id',
• 'post_parent_id',
• 'discussion_topic_title',
• 'discussion_topic_message',
• 'post_message',
• 'count_of_likes',
• 'timestamp'

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for use with your own API tokens and Canvas domains.

Prerequisites

1. Install Node 10 or greater.
2. Install Git.

Installation and execution of script

1. Clone this repo. git clone https://github.com/ubccapico/canvas-discussion.git
2. Then cd into the repo. cd canvas-discussion
3. Run the installation script. npm install (If you see babel-node: command not found, you've missed this step.)
4. Generate Canvas API token and copy it to clipboard.
5. Create a .env file.
6. Add the following: CANVAS_API_TOKEN={YOUR API TOKEN} and CANVAS_API_DOMAIN={YOUR API DOMAIN}. An example CANVAS_API_DOMAIN is https://{school}.instructure.com/api/v1
7. Add your course ID to index.js, where it says: //{course id} add course ID here!
8. Run the script. npm start.
9. An output.csv file should be generated with discussion data in the output folder.

Authors

• justin0022 - Justin Lee <justin.lee@ubc.ca>

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.