Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Steven Carmody <>]

On 10/6/14 1:35 PM, Rob Gorrell wrote:
> We are new to both Grouper as our group store and Canvas as our new
> LMS... now I know Canvas as been gaining considerable steam in the I2
> community, and while I can't name names, I'm certain there are some long
> time Grouper schools that have adopted Canvas and are sending course
> information from Grouper into Canvas. if you are one those, what is the
> approach you are using? and if you had to do it again today, is there a
> general approach thats starting to emerge as favorable for
> Canvas/Grouper integration?

We use Banner as our student system; it provides real time updates to 
Grouper course groups as students add and drop courses.

On the outboard side, we provision the changing membership of these 
course groups into Canvas (in addition to other targets). We have a 
locally-developed Grouper change log consumer that sends updates via a 
MSG BUS to various listeners (including a Canvas listener). btw, we use 
ActiveMQ as our bus.

The Canvas listener currently uses the original Canvas API (I think it 
uploads a CSV file to Canvas). Canvas provided a different API after we 
did our implementation.

I think a *great* conversation to have at TechX would be to seek 
consensus on a standard msg format, and a process for creating and 
maintaining a library of these listeners.

> I've heard a lot of muffled conversations about this topic discussed at
> different times going way back, but can't recall any
> specifics/consensus, just a recollection that many were customized,
> make-it-work scenarios unique to their school. so I thought I'd ask
> since I would imagine there's broad interest here and we have enough
> people making it work somehow... what does the approach look like to
> push course groups (once they exist) out of Grouper and into Canvas
> (being that Canvas expects RESTful API calls to be made against it)