While schools are closed, we’ve moved much of our long term staff development material into Canvas. We have one long-running course with all staff split…
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Unit Testing in GAS Part 5: Testing Objects and Arrays
If you’re brand new to unit testing, start with the first post in this series to get caught up. Part 1: QUnit Setup Part 2:…
Change Document Ownership with Apps Script
My Google account is managing a lot of document creation at school. I set up a lot of autoCrat projects to create docs alongside several…
Creating a New User Onboard in WordPress
I’m finishing up a website for a private project which allows for people to register and create posts as members. The client wanted to have…
Change Course Role in Canvas via the API
Continuing my Canvas excursions… We recently made a change where teachers could not manually add students to their courses. The change was made because manually…
Making RSS Feeds for Instagram
tl;dr: I have a hacky proof-of-concept method for getting an Instagram account as an RSS feed. It uses Python and you can grab the source…
I Took a Deep Breath and Contributed to an Open Source Project
I’ve been playing around with building websites and self-teaching myself (is that redundant?) web development languages. I feel like I’ve crossed some kind of line…
Link Two Google Docs for Translating
An interesting Stack Overflow question popped up about auto-translating one document into another when edits are made. Most Google services have things called “triggers” which…