Which LMSs are supported?

Any LTI 1.3 / Advantage platform — Blackboard, Brightspace, Canvas, Moodle, Schoology, and more — from a single integration.

Yes. LMS Bridge is open source under AGPL-3.0 — free to self-host and use at any size, with no per-student fee. You pay only for your own AI usage (your key) and your hosting. Optional commercial support, managed hosting, and an OEM license are available.

GNU AGPL-3.0. You can run, modify, and deploy it freely; if you modify it and offer it as a network service, AGPL asks you to share your changes. Internal institutional use carries no extra obligation.

LMS Bridge — open-source AI tutoring built into your LMS

See LMS Bridge in action

From student struggle to mastery — in minutes.

Student submits quiz

Quiz 2 · Probability

Score: 52%

Struggles show up.

AI analyzes responses

Analyzing 14 responses…

Identifying concepts…

LMS Bridge finds the root cause.

Misconception detected

⚑ Primary misconception

Confuses overflow with carry in binary addition.

Pinpoints the exact gap.

Guided practice generated

AI-generated module
Binary Addition & Overflow

· 6-min lesson
· 4 guided steps
· 3 practice questions

Personalized tutoring, instantly.

Student recovers

After practice

Score: 89%
+37% improvement

Student builds understanding.

Instructor gets visibility

Recovery dashboard

17 students improved this week

You see what's working.

Why can't we just use ChatGPT?

General AI vs. LMS Bridge.

	✗ ChatGPT / General AI	✓ LMS Bridge
Knows your course	No	Yes (your content)
Sees student answers	No	Yes
Detects misconceptions	No	Yes (AI + psych science)
Creates guided practice	No	Yes (personalized)
Tracks recovery	No	Yes
Works in your LMS	No	Yes (native)
FERPA / privacy	Unknown	Your data stays yours

One student, start to finish

Real example. Real impact.

Quiz 2 score

52%

Struggled with binary addition

AI diagnosis

Confuses overflow with carry.

Root misconception detected.

Guided practice

11 min

Personalized AI tutoring module

After practice

52% → 89%

37% improvement

17Students recovered

61Misconceptions detected

9 hrsInstructor time saved

92%Practice completion rate

Illustrative figures from the demo course — not from a live deployment.

Built for instructors. Loved by students.

Everything you need — right where you teach.

Overview · CS-UY 2110

17at risk

61misconc.

+42%improved

Binary Rep.46%

Machine-Level52%

Boolean Logic60%

Instructor dashboard

See who's struggling and why.

Ava ChenHIGH RISK

3 concepts · 2 open · 1 completed

Binary Rep.

Boolean Logic

Binary Arith.

Student profile

Deep insights into each learner.

🎯 Rebuilding Binary Representation

AI Tutor · In 1011, what is the leftmost bit worth?

128 ✓

retrieval practice · ~6 min

Generated module

AI-powered, curriculum aligned.

Recommended for you

Binary RepresentationNeeds review

Start · 6 min

Boolean LogicNeeds review

Start · 7 min

Student practice view

Guided, step-by-step support.

Class mastery↑ +6% wk

17 students recovered this week

Recovery analytics

Track what's working.

Install in your LMS

LMS Bridge registers as a standard LTI 1.3 tool. Your admin needs four URLs from your instance.

Dynamic Registration (Canvas/Moodle — one click): …

OIDC login : …

Launch URL : …

Redirect URL: …

Public JWKS : …

Open the interactive setup helper Copy-ready URLs + per-LMS steps, right in the app.

Add the tool

In your LMS admin (Blackboard / Brightspace / Canvas / Moodle) add a new LTI 1.3 / Advantage tool using the URLs above, and enable AGS + NRPS + Deep Linking.

Exchange keys

The LMS gives you an Issuer, Client ID, Deployment ID, and its auth/token/JWKS URLs. Enter them in your admin console (the LMS (LTI) tab) to complete registration — Canvas and Moodle do this in one click via Dynamic Registration.

Place it in a course

Instructors add LMS Bridge to a module via Deep Linking and launch — single sign-on does the rest.

One-page install guide for your LMS

📄Canvas
install-canvas.pdf 📄Moodle
install-moodle.pdf 📄Brightspace (D2L)
install-brightspace.pdf 📄Blackboard (Anthology)
install-blackboard.pdf

Prefer to self-host? Bring it up with Docker and point it at your own AI key — the full runbook is in the repo (docs/INSTALL_LTI.md, docs/DEPLOY_RAILWAY.md). No student data leaves your environment.

Frequently asked

Does this affect students' grades?

No. Mastery indicators are a private learning aid. Grades are set solely by the instructor through official assessments; any LMS gradebook write-back is a non-graded column.

Is it a "homework cheating" tool?

The opposite. The tutor is pedagogically constrained: it diagnoses and guides with Socratic questions and never provides graded answers.

Where does student data go?

LMS Bridge is FERPA-aware with role-based access. For full governance, run the AI on your own approved infrastructure (e.g. your Azure OpenAI tenant) via bring-your-own-key — or self-host the whole thing so nothing leaves your boundary.

Which AI models can we use — and can we run a local one?

Bring your own key: Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (GPT), and Azure OpenAI work out of the box, chosen per institution or course. A local/self-hosted model behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint works too — so you can run entirely on-premise with no third-party API.

How much does the AI cost?

Only what your own provider charges for the tokens you use — there's no per-student LMS Bridge fee. A small, fast model keeps it low, and you can set a hard spend cap in your provider's console. The non-AI features cost nothing to run.

Can instructors edit or customize the remediation?

Yes. Instructors control course content, concepts, and which assessments feed the engine; tutoring is grounded in the instructor's own materials, and prompt templates are course-configurable.

Does it work for large classes?

Yes — that's the point: personalized, concept-level help at a scale where individual feedback is otherwise impossible. Roster and grades sync automatically via LTI Advantage (NRPS/AGS).

Can we connect our grading rubric?

Yes. LMS Bridge ingests rubric-level results from the LMS gradebook and uses that criterion-by-concept signal (alongside multiple-choice answers) to target remediation.

How is it licensed? Is it really free?

Open source under GNU AGPL-3.0 — free to self-host at any size, no per-student fee. You pay only for your own AI usage and hosting. Optional commercial support, managed hosting, and an OEM license are available. See LICENSE and COMMERCIAL.md in the repo.

Get in touch

Questions, help installing, an efficacy-study collaboration, or commercial support. Self-hosting? You don't need us to start — just follow the guide above.

Prefer email?

Write to info@lmsbridge.app.

For developers

Full source is on GitHub (AGPL-3.0), with an OpenAPI spec at /docs, the LTI provider, and deployment guides. Issues and PRs welcome.

Security & procurement

Read the Security policy, the compliance summary, and the privacy & self-hosting guide. HECVAT, VPAT, and DPA available on request.

Maintainer

Built and maintained by Hasan Aljabbouli, New York University · info@lmsbridge.app.

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