Tomax for Canvas
Tomax is an exam management platform that connects natively to Canvas and supports LTI 1.3 with all LTI Advantage services. Students start from Canvaswith single sign-on, authoring, secure delivery, integrity checks, and marking run in Tomax, and grades and annotated scripts are pushed back to the Canvas gradebook. Canvas stays your system of record for courses and enrollment.
- Single sign-on (SAML, OAuth 2.0)
- Students launch the exam from the LMS (LTI 1.3)
- Grades written back to the gradebook
איך זה עובד
From the first click to the grade, in three steps
Students start from Canvas
They open the exam from the course they already use. Single sign-on means no separate login.
The assessment runs in Tomax
Authoring, secure delivery, integrity checks, and marking happen in Tomax.
The grade returns to Canvas
Grades and annotated scripts are pushed back to the gradebook.
What Connects
The Canvas integration at a glance
- Connection
- Native integration with Canvas
- LMS standard
- LTI 1.3, with all LTI Advantage services
- Deep Linking
- Instructors pick a Tomax exam from inside Canvas and place it in their course
- Assignment and Grade Services
- Grades return from Tomax to the Canvas gradebook
- Names and Role Provisioning Services
- Course rosters and roles come from Canvas into Tomax
- כניסה יחידה
- SAML and OAuth 2.0, so staff and students use existing institutional credentials
- Grades
- Grades and annotated scripts pushed back to the Canvas gradebook
- Question banks
- Existing banks imported during onboarding, including items held in Canvas question pools
- Where assessments live
- Authored and delivered in Tomax or inside Canvas
- Other systems
- RESTful API, webhooks, and SFTP and CSV. Custom connectors are built and maintained by Tomax.
- Getting started
- The demo runs in your browser with nothing to install. LMS connection comes up when you move to a pilot.
Using a different LMS?
שאלות נפוצות
No. Tomax runs alongside Canvas and handles the assessment layer (authoring, secure delivery, integrity, and grading) while Canvas stays the system of record for courses and enrollment.
Yes. Tomax supports LTI 1.3 with all LTI Advantage services: Deep Linking (instructors place a Tomax exam in a Canvas course from inside Canvas), Assignment and Grade Services (grades return to the Canvas gradebook), and Names and Role Provisioning Services (course rosters and roles come from Canvas). It sits alongside the native connection to Canvas.
No. Single sign-on through SAML and OAuth 2.0 means staff and students use the institutional credentials they already have.
Grades and annotated scripts are returned to students and pushed back to the Canvas gradebook.
Existing banks are imported during onboarding, including items held in Canvas question pools. Nothing needs to be rewritten to be reused.
Yes. A RESTful API, webhooks, and SFTP and CSV cover systems without a native connector, and our team builds and maintains custom connectors.
The demo runs in your browser with nothing to install. The LMS connection comes up when you move to a pilot, and institutions commonly pilot with one department or one exam period first.
Want to see it work with Canvas?
See the exam flow from the first click to the grade in the gradebook, in a 30-minute walkthrough built around your institution's setup.
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