The tool targets any LTI 1.3 platform; Canvas is the primary target
but nothing outside the Canvas-specific custom variable substitutions
depends on it. User-facing strings and the README now say "LMS"
except where a mechanism genuinely is Canvas's (the $Canvas.* /
com.instructure.* substitutions and their handling), and the README
states plainly that the tool has so far been exercised only against
the saltire emulator, not yet a production LMS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ports the timing-neutral foregone-participation grading scheme from
participation_grades.R: answer quality (per-course level points) minus
a deduction for participation foregone through unavailability,
estimated by Monte Carlo simulation of the actual weighted draw and
averaged over when absences fall, plus a small form-filing incentive
for drawn-while-absent-without-opt-out days. Reason-blind and
luck-protected; zero-answer students floor to 0. Parameters
(allowance in SD units, passing line, form penalty, simulation
size/seed) are course settings. Verified against the R engine's
rendered 2026q2 reports via the new import-legacy command: quality and
availability match exactly, finals within Monte Carlo noise; dropped
students import as inactive enrollments and are excluded identically.
Grades are computed on demand into stored GradeRun snapshots and
reviewed on a grades page with CSV export and per-student reports
(also served to students via a publish toggle). Display scales map
points to UW 4.0, a threshold table (one-click import of the Canvas
course grading scheme), or raw points. Gradebook passback via AGS
sits behind a settings toggle with a review-then-push flow.
Opt-out withdrawals are now soft-deletes with a withdrawn_at audit
trail, and close when class begins (class days gained optional start
times), so availability records cannot be rewritten after the fact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
