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This might help some:

http://www.canvaslms.com/

It's actually open source, you can host it yourself if you chose or they will run it for you for a fee. You can program against it... build plugins etc. There are also a large number of plugins already available. It's written in Ruby on Rails with a Cassandra DB.

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Thanks for sharing this- as a school, we do already use canvas! One of the ways we're attacking our data problem is to make more effective use of canvas, but like all the other services we use, it's becoming clear that it is only part of the solution.

That said, it's my job to make sure we're not overlooking the ability to make our "problem" disappear by making better use of our resources; so I'll be agressively reevaluating the chain of decisions that brought us to this moment

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