Canvas StrawberrySomeone still has to update assignment. It does not have to be you
A companion works the 4 operations your Canvas account exposes. It can update an assignment, and every one of those waits on an approval card showing the assignment before it changes.
Open the assignment. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the Canvas afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing landing on a assignment until you approve it.
What it can do is exactly what Canvas exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 4 operations, 3 reads and 1 write. In practice that means it can update an assignment, and work across the assignments, courses and course contents.
The Canvas API stops at Canvas. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Which Canvas assignments does a companion see?
3 of the 4 operations are reads.
Your account, not a guess at it: a companion can search a course content, list courses and list assignments, and the full list below is the whole list, with nothing inferred from Canvas's documentation.
The assignments are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the courses. A companion can hold all 4 of these operations and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of Canvas admin becomes a queue you review.
- Search Course Content
- List Courses
- List Assignments
What happens before it can update assignment?
The one write operation there is waits for you.
A companion can update an assignment, and each one is staged on an approval card first: you see the assignment, the field and the new value before it lands in Canvas.
Nothing in Canvas is sent, changed or deleted on your behalf without that click, and a rejected card leaves the assignment exactly as it was. The gate is the same one on every surface, described at security.
- Update Assignment
Can the assignments pass run every Monday?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the Canvas assignments pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The operations playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the busywork, the Canvas assignments sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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