Introduction

The Canvas Student Data Export Tool can export nearly all of a student's data from Instructure Canvas Learning Management System (Canvas LMS).
This is useful when you are graduating or leaving your college or university, and would like to have a backup of all the data you had in canvas.

The tool exports all of the following data:

• Course Assignments
• Course Announcements
• Course Discussions
• Course Pages
• Course Files
• Course Modules

The tool will export your data in JSON format, and will organize it nicely into folders named for every term of every year.
Example:

• Fall 2013
  • Econ 101
    • files
    • modules
    • Econ 101.json
  • English 101
    • files
    • modules
    • English 101.json
• Fall 2014
• Fall 2015
• Fall 2016
• Spring 2014
• Spring 2015
• Spring 2016
• Spring 2017
• Winter 2014
• Winter 2015
• Winter 2016
• Winter 2017
• all_output.json

Getting Started

Dependencies

To run the program, you will need the following dependencies:
pip install requests
pip install jsonpickle
pip install canvasapi

Then run from the command line:
python export.py

Configuration

These are the configuration parameters for the program:

• Canvas API URL
• Canvas API key
• Canvas User ID
• Directory in which to download course information to (will be created if not present)
• List of Course IDs that should be skipped

Contribute

I would love to see this script's functionality expanded and improved! I welcome all pull requests :) Thank you!