subscribe to Canvas LMS Live Events for near-real-time course activity via SQS or webhook

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Steps

  1. Decide on a delivery mechanism: an AWS SQS queue the account owns, or an HTTPS webhook endpoint you host
  2. Configure the account's dynamic_settings for live-events with the chosen delivery target (Kinesis/SQS details or webhook URL)
  3. Subscribe to the specific event types needed (e.g. submission_created, asset_accessed, course_updated)
  4. Consume events from the queue or webhook, deduping on event id since delivery is at-least-once
  5. Build downstream processing for analytics/data warehousing rather than time-sensitive workflows

Known gotchas

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