Forum

discussion_entry_created

Definition: The event is emitted anytime an end user or a system replies to a discussion topic or thread.

Trigger: Triggered when a user replies to the discussion topic or thread.

Event Body Schema

Field	Description
data[0].group.extensions["com.instructure.canvas"].context_type	Canvas context type where the action took place e.g context_type = Course.
data[0].group.extensions["com.instructure.canvas"].entity_id	Canvas context ID
data[0].object.extensions["com.instructure.canvas"].entity_id	Canvas global ID of the object affected by the event
data[0].object.type	Message

Payload Example:

{
  "sensor": "http://oxana.instructure.com/",
  "sendTime": "2019-11-16T02:09:04.044Z",
  "dataVersion": "http://purl.imsglobal.org/ctx/caliper/v1p1",
  "data": [
    {
      "@context": "http://purl.imsglobal.org/ctx/caliper/v1p1",
      "id": "urn:uuid:9cc50e7d-2cf0-4ba7-a35f-c299cc7a6ca3",
      "type": "MessageEvent",
      "actor": {
        "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:user:21070000000098765",
        "type": "Person",
        "extensions": {
          "com.instructure.canvas": {
            "user_login": "[e-mail]",
            "user_sis_id": "456-T45",
            "root_account_id": "21070000000000001",
            "root_account_lti_guid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs.oxana.instructure.com",
            "root_account_uuid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs",
            "entity_id": "21070000000098765"
          }
        }
      },
      "action": "Posted",
      "object": {
        "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:discussionEntry:2134567",
        "type": "Message",
        "extensions": {
          "com.instructure.canvas": {
            "entity_id": "2134567"
          }
        },
        "isPartOf": {
          "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:discussion:123456",
          "type": "Thread"
        },
        "body": "<p>test this discussion</p>"
      },
      "eventTime": "2019-11-01T19:11:03.933Z",
      "referrer": "https://oxana.instructure.com/courses/2982/discussion_topics/123456",
      "edApp": {
        "id": "http://oxana.instructure.com/",
        "type": "SoftwareApplication"
      },
      "group": {
        "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:course:21070000000000565",
        "type": "CourseOffering",
        "extensions": {
          "com.instructure.canvas": {
            "context_type": "Course",
            "entity_id": "21070000000000565"
          }
        }
      },
      "membership": {
        "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:course:21070000000000565:Learner:21070000000098765",
        "type": "Membership",
        "member": {
          "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:user:21070000000098765",
          "type": "Person"
        },
        "organization": {
          "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:course:21070000000000565",
          "type": "CourseOffering"
        },
        "roles": [
          "Learner"
        ]
      },
      "session": {
        "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:session:ef686f8ed684abf78cbfa1f6a58112b5",
        "type": "Session"
      },
      "extensions": {
        "com.instructure.canvas": {
          "hostname": "oxana.instructure.com",
          "request_id": "1dd9dc6f-2fb0-4c19-a6c5-7ee1bf3ed295",
          "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",
          "client_ip": "93.184.216.34",
          "request_url": "https://oxana.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/452/discussion_topics/123456/entries/62152/replies",
          "version": "1.0.0"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

discussion_topic_created

Definition: The event is emitted anytime an new discussion topic is created by an end user or API request.

Trigger: Triggered when a new discussion topic is created in a course. Also triggered when a new course announcement is created with is_announcement set to TRUE.

Event Body Schema

Field	Description
data[0].group.extensions["com.instructure.canvas"].context_type	Canvas context type where the action took place e.g context_type = Course.
data[0].group.extensions["com.instructure.canvas"].entity_id	Canvas context ID
data[0].object.extensions["com.instructure.canvas"].entity_id	Canvas global ID of the object affected by the event
data[0].object.extensions["com.instructure.canvas"].is_announcement	true if this topic was posted as an announcement, false otherwise
data[0].object.type	Thread

Payload Example:

{
  "sensor": "http://oxana.instructure.com/",
  "sendTime": "2019-11-21T23:47:22.279Z",
  "dataVersion": "http://purl.imsglobal.org/ctx/caliper/v1p1",
  "data": [
    {
      "@context": "http://purl.imsglobal.org/ctx/caliper/v1p1",
      "id": "urn:uuid:2cdf5feb-c60c-4fbe-af47-ba48308a89ec",
      "type": "ThreadEvent",
      "actor": {
        "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:user:21070000000000001",
        "type": "Person",
        "extensions": {
          "com.instructure.canvas": {
            "user_login": "oxana",
            "user_sis_id": "456-T45",
            "root_account_id": "21070000000000001",
            "root_account_lti_guid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs.oxana.instructure.com",
            "root_account_uuid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs",
            "entity_id": "21070000000000001"
          }
        }
      },
      "action": "Created",
      "object": {
        "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:discussion:140000002236385",
        "type": "Thread",
        "name": "Week 10: Sin, cos, and tan",
        "extensions": {
          "com.instructure.canvas": {
            "is_announcement": true,
            "entity_id": "140000002236385"
          }
        }
      },
      "eventTime": "2019-11-01T19:11:15.491Z",
      "referrer": "https://oxana.instructure.com/courses/565/discussion_topics/new?is_announcement=true",
      "edApp": {
        "id": "http://oxana.instructure.com/",
        "type": "SoftwareApplication"
      },
      "group": {
        "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:course:565",
        "type": "CourseOffering",
        "extensions": {
          "com.instructure.canvas": {
            "context_type": "Course",
            "entity_id": "565"
          }
        }
      },
      "membership": {
        "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:course:565:Instructor:21070000000000001",
        "type": "Membership",
        "member": {
          "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:user:21070000000000001",
          "type": "Person"
        },
        "organization": {
          "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:course:565",
          "type": "CourseOffering"
        },
        "roles": [
          "Instructor"
        ]
      },
      "session": {
        "id": "urn:instructure:canvas:session:ef686f8ed684abf78cbfa1f6a58112b5",
        "type": "Session"
      },
      "extensions": {
        "com.instructure.canvas": {
          "hostname": "oxana.instructure.com",
          "request_id": "1dd9dc6f-2fb0-4c19-a6c5-7ee1bf3ed295",
          "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",
          "client_ip": "93.184.216.34",
          "request_url": "https://oxana.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/565/discussion_topics",
          "version": "1.0.0"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

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This documentation is generated directly from the Canvas LMS source code, available on Github.