ivynya / caravel

High-performance, modern client for Canvas LMS - sailed by students, for students.

Caravel

Caravel is a Canvas client that uses the Canvas Open API. It is designed as an SPA, rather than the MVC-style model that the official Canvas frontend uses. This means Caravel performs way faster with extremely good responsiveness, especially on slow networks (found in many schools, public places, and other areas where students may find themselves). It also works offline!

Caravel is also a PWA (desktop & mobile) meaning you can take it wherever you go.

Try It Out

You can try out Caravel with an API token from your account (Profile > Settings > New User Token). You'll also need a CORS-anywhere proxy hosted online (or locally if running Caravel locally as well). These values can be configured on the initial app setup screen.

• https://caravel.sdbagel.com v0.7.x+ (synced with GitHub)

Contributing

Contributions of any size are welcome!

For bug reports, please make an issue on this repository.

For feature requests, please make an issue or post a discussion thread before you start coding - this ensures that duplicate work isn't done and the design is as good as it can be.

For more information, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

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Disclaimer

Caravel does not have any official affiliation with Instructure, nor has there been any communication or cooperation. No part of Canvas LMS source code has been used in this application aside from info from public API documentation. Deploying Caravel at scale may present issues as you would need a developer key from your institution to avoid having users paste in API tokens.

caravel's Issues

[FEAT] Course navigation opens LTI links

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
LTI (external tools) attached at the course level are displayed inside the course navigation component, but currently do nothing.

Describe the solution you'd like
Clicking this sidebar element should launch the LTI / external tool in a new window. This should be done with the Canvas external tools API, which is already partially integrated into Caravel at src/app/core/services/canvas/course/course.service.ts

Additional context
URL: caravel-next.sdbagel.com/courses/:courseId
Component: src/app/course/course-nav/

Would you like to contribute this feature?
This is a Hacktoberfest issue - new contributors are welcome! If you have any questions about the code, structure, or contributing to Caravel, feel free to ask.