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Syllabus

syllabus_updated

Definition: The event is emitted anytime a syllabus is changed in a course by an end user or API request. Only changes to the fields included in the body of the event payload will emit the updated event.

Trigger: Triggered when a course syllabus gets updated.

Payload Example:

{
  "metadata": {
    "client_ip": "93.184.216.34",
    "event_name": "syllabus_updated",
    "event_time": "2019-11-01T19:11:14.519Z",
    "hostname": "oxana.instructure.com",
    "http_method": "POST",
    "producer": "canvas",
    "referrer": "https://oxana.instructure.com/courses/565/assignments/syllabus",
    "request_id": "1dd9dc6f-2fb0-4c19-a6c5-7ee1bf3ed295",
    "root_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "root_account_lti_guid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs.oxana.instructure.com",
    "root_account_uuid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs",
    "session_id": "ef686f8ed684abf78cbfa1f6a58112b5",
    "time_zone": "America/Los_Angeles",
    "url": "https://oxana.instructure.com/courses/565",
    "user_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36",
    "user_id": "21070000000000001",
    "user_login": "oxana@example.com",
    "user_sis_id": "456-T45"
  },
  "body": {
    "course_id": "21070000000000565",
    "old_syllabus_body": "<p><iframe style=\"width: 800px; height: 880px;\" src=\"/courses/565/external_tools/retrieve?display=borderless&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Foxana.instructuremedia.com%2F...",
    "syllabus_body": "<p><iframe style=\"width: 800px; height: 880px;\" src=\"/courses/565/external_tools/retrieve?display=borderless&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Foxana.instructuremedia.com%2F..."
  }
}

Event Body Schema

Field Description
course_id The Canvas id of the updated course.
old_syllabus_body The old syllabus content. NOTE: This field will be truncated to only include the first 8192 characters. NOTE: This field will be truncated to only include the first 8192 characters.
syllabus_body The new syllabus content. NOTE: This field will be truncated to only include the first 8192 characters.

Note: Timestamps will be in ISO8601 format, including an offset. Be sure to take that into account when parsing, since it’s unspecified which offset timestamps will use, and the offset may even change between different timestamps within a single event.