Thank you and Questions

[laraklee]

Hi, Alex: Thank you for this. It looks really handy. I'm starting to play with the code, and I had a couple of questions if you get a chance. Forgive me in advance for being a novice Scripter.

First, it appears to be set up as a one way sync - from Canvas to Google Calendars. From what I've read, making it a two way sync would require using the Canvas LTI. Is that why you didn't do it?

Second, if I wanted to sort by section as well, I'd need to modify the courseList and subsequent courseName references to include the (sectionName) part of the generated Canvas Feed, correct?

Thank you in advance for your help!

[afwolfe]

Hi @laraklee - glad this was of use to you. When I made it, I initially just needed a way to see certain Canvas courses in my Google Calendar.

To answer your first question - you are correct that being able to sync changes back to Canvas would require making use of the Canvas API or an LTI instead of just parsing through a calendar feed.

Second - I think so, and that's a great idea! If you make that change and open a pull request I'd be happy to merge it back in. There are a couple places that use just the courseName, so you may have to change those lines or find a way to handle the course name and section number separately. (Ex - around line 75 of CanvasCalendarFilter uses "["+courseName+"]" to search for and then create the separate calendar to add events to.)

[laraklee]

Thank you! I'll see where this goes. We really want to have the sync back to Canvas, so I'm looking at this from two different directions. I also just learned about cross-listed courses, and I'm not sure how that would work in your algorithm. If I do wind up coding any modifications that I'm happy with, I'll definitely send you the code. Have a great week!

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