Implementing Canvas Open Source

Christopher Bennell OCAD University

OCAD University

Ontario College of Art & Design University Canadas largest Art & Design University, 135 years old Studio-based Art + Design Undergrad and Graduate Studies Downtown Toronto 4000 Students, 400 Faculty

Canvas Pilot Timeline

Evaluation of home-grown LMS + eLearning environment

February 2011

Canvas pilot: ~7 courses / term September 2011 Campus-wide implementation September 2012

My Courses

Our Canvas Environment

Hardened Gentoo Linux VMs Nginx Passenger MySQL OCFS2 + iSCSI Redis OS Web Server Load Balancer Application server Database Storage Caching

Environment
Application Servers 2

Memory

8GB x 2 = 16GB

Cores

4 x 2 = 8 cores

My Courses Load Test

12000ms

9000ms

6000ms

Before Caching After Caching (Redis)

3000ms

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Concurrent Requests

Other Tools
Puppet Ruby Enterprise Edition Git Capistrano New Relic System conguration Performance Development Deployment Deployment Monitoring

Automated Deployments
Application Code Capistrano + Git
System Cong Puppet Operating System VM Template

Our Conguration

github.com/christopher-b/ocadu-canvas

Puppet

Automated system conguration Easy deployment of additional nodes for production, development
infrastructure to be checked Allows entirecontrol into version

Maintain system homogeneity

github.com/christopher-b/ocadu-canvas/puppet puppetlabs.com

Puppet Dashboard

Ruby Enterprise Edition

MOAR RAM - reduces memory usage Plays well with Passenger Canvas is very memory intensive

github.com/christopher-b/ocadu-canvas/tuned-ree rubyenterpriseedition.com

Git

Code management - custom modications Deployment - Acts as central code repository for application nodes Git Server - Gitolite

git-scm.com github.com/sitaramc/gitolite

Capistrano

Automated deployment Custom deploy scripts One-step deploy... kind of

github.com/christopher-b/ocadu-canvas/deploy github.com/capistrano/capistrano

New Relic

newrelic.com

Support
GitHub Google Group IRC Canvas Help Center LTI of Magic Issues + bugs Community support Chat with engineers End-user support LTI examples
github.com/instructure/canvas-lms

groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ canvas-lms-users

#canvas-lms on irc.freenode.net

help.instructure.com

lti-examples.heroku.com

Thanks!

Christopher Bennell cbennell@faculty.ocadu.ca

github.com/christopher-b/ocadu-canvas scribd.com/doc/97940416