Vocareum <codeLMS> Delivers Tight Integration with Canvas

Cloud platform serves as a seamless plugin for coding assignments and exams

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Sep 09, 2015, 07:00 ET

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Vocareum, a technology leader in Learning Management System (LMS) solutions for coding classes, today announced a partnership with Instructure, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company and maker of the Canvas LMS. Through this partnership, Vocareum's <codeLMS> will be tightly integrated with Canvas using the industry standard Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) interface. This integration will enable teachers to provide grading automation, plagiarism detection and cloud execution for assignments, projects and exams.

"Our partnership with Vocareum will help Canvas clients better support student learning by offering the unique capabilities required for coding instruction," said Melissa Loble, VP of Partners and Programs at Instructure. "Vocareum's strong technology and easy-to-use cloud platform has been recognized by top schools and delivers the efficiency needed as the demand for coding literacy grows."

"Through deep integration with Vocareum, Canvas will now offer teachers teaching coding the missing ability to execute code in the cloud," said Sanjay Srivastava, CEO of Vocareum. "<codeLMS> automates grading and plagiarism detection for coding classes and also provides learning analytics."

In addition to the tight integration, <codeLMS> will be available as an app on the EduAppCenter for seamless integration into Canvas. Vocareum's <codeLMS> product has been used by thousands of students in coding classes at leading universities such as UCSD, Penn State, UIUC, and USC. Classes have ranged from introductory programming, graduate artificial intelligence, introduction to Android programming, and embedded system programming classes. <codeLMS> supports Java, C++, C, Python, OCamL, SQL, Hadoop, and Android.

About Vocareum
Vocareum has built a cloud platform for coding classes. By moving student work to the cloud and leveraging cloud computing resources, Vocareum significantly improves aspects like assessment efficiency, quality of student feedback, collaboration strategies for students and learning analytics. By focusing exclusively on coding classes, Vocareum <codeLMS> delivers capabilities like grading automation, plagiarism detection and learning analytics that are missing in horizontal LMS offerings. Learn more about Vocareum <codeLMS> at http://www.vocareum.com/

Vishal Kapoor
Vocareum, Inc.
650-594-5194
[email protected]

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