canvaslms 2.0

Command-line interface to Canvas LMS

canvaslms: A CLI to Canvas LMS.

This program provides a command-line interface for Canvas. The command is canvaslms and it has several subcommands in the same style as Git. canvaslms provides output in a format useful for POSIX tools, this makes automating tasks much easier.

Let's consider how to grade students logging into the student-shell SSH server. We store the list of students' Canvas and KTH IDs in a file.

canvaslms users -c DD1301 -s | cut -f 1,2 > students.csv

Then we check who has logged into student-shell.

ssh student-shell.sys.kth.se last | cut -f 1 -d " " | sort | uniq \
  > logged-in.csv

Finally, we check who of our students logged in.

for s in $(cut -f 2 students.csv); do
  grep $s logged-in.csv && \

Finally, we can set their grade to P and add the comment "Well done!" in Canvas. We set the grades for the two assignments whose titles match the regular expression (Preparing the terminal|The terminal).

    canvaslms grade -c DD1301 -a "(Preparing the terminal|The terminal)" \
      -u $(grep $s students.csv | cut -f 1) \
      -g P -m "Well done!"
done

Installation

Just install the PyPI package:

python3 -m pip install canvaslms

Some subcommands use pandoc, so you will likely have to install pandoc on your system manually.