CanvasAPI for PS2

Harvard's Physical Sciences 2: Mechanics, Elasticity, Fluids, and Diffusion has an extensive catalogue of assignments, lecture materials and quizzes that are constantly updated throughout the semester. As a Teaching Assistant for the course, I developed Python scripts utilizing the CanvasAPI to parse Markdown documents and create pages, assignments and quizzes based on the course's Github repository.

The scripts broke down Markdown documents into questions, answers and quiz parameters, converted Latex code to MathJax code, and uploaded pictures to the Canvas course file system before embedding them in assignments. The code also placed quizzes and reading material pages in correctly ranked modules. Later on, I created scripts that iterated through all Markdown documents to track changes and update the respective pages/assignments on the Canvas course page. You can walk through many parts of my code in the Colab Notebook in the Resources section.