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.. This file is part of the OpenDSA eTextbook project. See
.. http://opendsa.org for more details.
.. Copyright (c) 2012-2020 by the OpenDSA Project Contributors, and
.. distributed under an MIT open source license.

.. avmetadata::
   :author: Cliff Shaffer
   :topic: OpenDSA

OpenDSA Project Content Status
==============================

Status Report
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This status report was last updated on March 9, 2020.

OpenDSA content contintues to grow, evolve, become more polished,
break, get fixed, and so on.
In general, specific chapters get periodic attention and slowly
improve.
At the present time, the chapters that are used in the CS2 and CS3
standard books are considered complete
(though polishing and minor additions are continually being made),
and they are actively maintained.
These comprise a complete Junior-level data structures and algorithms
course, and the data structures component of a standard CS2 course.
If you are looking at the "Everything" book, you will see these as
well as all modules that are in various stages of perparation.
There you will also see the "TODO" list items.

We are constantly expanding our content.
We have a fairly complete book on Formal Languages and Automata, which
includes a collection of editors, simulators, and autograded exercises
for building a variety of finite automata, including Turing Machines.
There is a book for a course on programming languages
(of the translators and parsing variety).
There is a fairly complete chapter on NP Completeness theory.
New for 2020: We are developing a tutorial on Blockchain
technologies.

As of 2017, OpenDSA uses the LTI protocol to serve content, and
directly integrates with the Canvas LMS.
We have incomplete integration support for other LMS's that support
LTI, including Moodle and Blackboard.
At this time there is no ETA on improved connections to any LMS aside
from Canvas.
However, we do provide the option to load  individual visualizations,
exercises, and modules into any LTI-compilant LMS.
Details can be found at 
https://opendsa-server.cs.vt.edu/home/guide.
Technical discussion of how OpenDSA supports LTI can be found at
http://splice.cs.vt.edu/lti.


Configuring Your Own Book
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is only one of several versions of the OpenDSA materials.
We present a number of "standard" book options at
https://opendsa-server.cs.vt.edu/home/books.
As described at https://opendsa-server.cs.vt.edu/home/guide,
instructors can generate a Canvas course with any of the standard book
configurations.
We provide a tool that allows instructors
to configure the details for book content when setting up a Canvas
course.
If you have trouble using this, feel free to contact the OpenDSA
development team at opendsa@cs.vt.edu.