Canvas Crawler | Devpost

Inspiration

We wanted to make it easy for students to be able to be updated on their academic status.

What it does

You ask Alexa "What assignments are due soon?", and Alexa will pull from the Canvas API and read out assignments due in the next two weeks. You can also ask Alexa to read out your grades.

How we built it

We used AWS's Lambda Functions to code the functionality for the Alexa skill.

Challenges we ran into

Learning AWS's Lambda Functions and figuring out how to properly use the data returned by Canvas's API.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Figuring out how AWS's Lambda Functions worked with Alexa's skill interface

What we learned

We learned a great deal about developing for Amazon Alexa. We didn't have any prior experience coming into this project, but we're proud of how much we were able to learn over this weekend.

What's next for Canvas Crawler

We would love to add more functionality, such as reading announcements from professors.

Built With

Submitted to

HackGT 2017

Created by

I worked on the JSON portion of the project and ensured that Alexa was able to call the various functions needed to get the user what they wanted from the Canvas API

Stephen Rey
Aerospace Engineering Student
I worked on figuring out how Alexa skills worked and how they interfaced with AWS's Lambda Functions. I helped Scott with his Python code in order to receive input and give output.

Imanuel Sonubi
I did the majority of the python and the api investigation. Once set up I added aditional skills like grade checking and switching auth token

Scott Suarez
Jianni Adkisson

Updates

Imanuel Sonubi started this project — Oct 15, 2017 03:14 AM EDT

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