About Us
Longhorn Open Ed Tech is an open-source consortium based at the University of Texas at Austin. We build free, open-source apps to help teachers teach, and to help students learn.
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Projects
Chatter
Chatter is a free discussion-board tool. Students can talk in free-form threaded discussions, moderated by a teacher or a TA.
Chatter plugs into your Learning Management System as an LTI app.
Qualtrics LTI
Qualtrics LTI allows you to create a survey or quiz in Qualtrics and offer it to your students as a graded activity. Grades can be either completion grades, or a grade calculated by Qualtrics. Qualtrics LTI plugs into your Learning Management System as an LTI app.
Canvas Peer Grading
The Peer Review Tool makes grading a peer review assignment much easier. After your students have reviewed and graded their peers, use this tool to easily view individual grades and comments, calculate average scores, identify outliers, export grades to Excel and import average scores to the Canvas grade book.
Code Libraries
We also produce a few code libraries, which may help you if you’re building an app of your own.
PHP Canvas API
A PHP library allowing applications to easily talk to Canvas via the Canvas API. This library handles the mechanics of authorization and response pagination.
Laravel LTI
A PHP library which makes it easy to support LTI in a Laravel app. Provides several Laravel-friendly wrappers around the Celtic LTI library.