Self-Service User and Course Provisioning with Canvas
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The presentation discussed self-service user and course provisioning tools developed at UC Berkeley using the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard. The tools allow faculty and staff to automatically create Canvas course sites based on course roster data and import student users from the campus student information system. The tools were built using Ruby on Rails and AngularJS and utilize several Canvas API endpoints. Potential issues addressed including the time required for large-scale user and enrollment updates and the inability to restore deleted courses via the SIS import. Contact information was provided for questions.
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- 1. Presentation by: Jon Hays & Jason Miller Self-Service User and Course Provisioning
- 2. University of California, Berkeley Students Faculty 36,000 undergraduates 1,600 full-‐3me 10,000+ graduates 600 part-‐3me Departments Courses/Year 130 7,000
- 3. Canvas Adoption 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Fall 2015* Spring 2015* Sakai Canvas
- 4. • it’s complicated • the devil you know • we are control freaks Why Self-Service?
- 5. Demo
- 6. Create a Course Site 1. Select Term: Knowing and Learning in Mathematics and Science (1 section)▼ Murali Stoyanov, S3706-BBB DwinelleLEC 001 MTWRF 11:10a-12:15pEDUC 120 87909 Spring 2014 Fall 2014Summer 2014 Select: All Introductory Probability & Statistics for Business (3 sections)▼ Select: All 2. Select Roster(s): Next >> In use Need help deciding which rosters to select? All rosters you select below will be put in ONE, single course site. 185 DwinelleTu, Th 9:10-11:30a Jones, GSTAT 21 56546DIS 102 STAT 21 56545DIS 101 185 DwinelleMWF 12:10-1:30p Peppard, G Murali Stoyanov, S370 DwinelleLEC 001 MTWRF 9:10-11:30aSTAT 21 56544 This roster is in use by EDUC 120
- 7. Create a Course Site Create & Go to Course Site Site Name: << Back Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business| Site Abbreviation: STATISTICS 21 - LEC 001 Create a Course Site You are about to create 1 course site with these 2 rosters: ● STATISTICS 21 - LEC 001 (72679) ● STATISTICS 21 - DISC 101 (72680)
- 8. Create a Course Site Create a Course Site 50% Complete
- 10. Create a Course Site LTI features • User Naviga3on LTI placement • Javascript/CSS to insert buKon • External Tools API to insert link on the buKon • Account Reports API for sec3ons in use • Torquebox background processing and API calls to display progress bar
- 11. Add People LTI features • Course Naviga3on LTI placement visible to Admins, Teachers, TAs and Designers • Imports new Users via SIS Import API • Adds enrollments via Canvas Enrollments API
- 12. Gotchas • User & Enrollment updates take a long 3me • Deleted Courses -‐ Can’t restore via SIS Import
- 13. LTI Application Stack • JRuby • Rails 4 • AngularJS • Founda3on (Responsive Front-‐End) with Custom CSS • Rspec
- 14. Contact Info Jon Hays, Service Manager for LMS jonmhays@berkeley.edu Jason Miller, Senior So?ware Engineer jason.c.miller@berkeley.edu hKps://github.com/ets-‐berkeley-‐edu/calcentral