GithubToCanvasQuiz

A tool maintaining Canvas quizzes as markdown files in GitHub.

$ gem install github-to-canvas-quiz

Interacting with the Canvas API requires that you have the following environment variables set:

• ENV['CANVAS_API_PATH']
  • The base URL for your institution's Canvas API (https://flatironlearn.beta.instructure.com/api/v1)
• ENV['CANVAS_API_KEY']
  • Your Canvas Access Token

This gem provides two key features via the CLI: backing up Canvas quizzes to markdown, and updating a Canvas quiz from an existing directory of markdown files.

To backup a Canvas quiz to the current directory:

$ github-to-canvas-quiz backup --course $COURSE_ID --quiz $QUIZ_ID

This will create a set of markdown files representing the quiz data (one for the quiz itself, and one for each question).

To update a Canvas quiz based on the markdown files in the current directory:

$ github-to-canvas-quiz align

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bundle exec rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/learn-co-curriculum/github-to-canvas-quiz. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the FlatironS3Uploader project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.