Andes in Canvas
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I am one of the developers of the Andes intelligent tutor for introductory physics. Andes contains over 500 problems and covers most of a standard introductory physics course. It just provides individual exercises: there is no textbook or anything else.
We would like to make Andes widely available to users of Canvas, using LTI.
However, since LTI only provides assignment-level integration, there is a bunch of functionality that I would have to provide myself:
- A way for instructors to go through the Andes problem list to construct assignments. (Existing problem browser here: http://andestutor.org/sets/)
- A way for instructors to be able to copy over courses from last year so they don't have to start over when constructing assignments.
- A way for students to navigate through an assignment. (Andes only serves individual exercises.)
- A gradebook where instructors could view student scores on individual exercises and call up an Andes session for that exercise if they click on a score. (Since LTI only handles an assignment-level score.)
All of these are pretty standard activities and I am loathe to re-invent the wheel.
What would be the easiest way forward?
Is there some other way of integrating into Canvas other than the assignment-level LTI integration?
I am rather confused by this whole business because I thought that this kind of functionality (1-4) is precisely what LMS's like Canvas are supposed to provide and yet I am faced with doing it myself.
[This is a heavily revised version of my original post.]
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