For LMS administrators

Install EconLearn in your LMS

EconLearn is an LTI 1.3 tool. Once installed, any teacher in your instance can drop a live, draggable economics graph into a course page from the rich content editor. Students need no account and nothing is stored about them.

If you would rather not install anything, the same graphs work as a plain iframe: copy a snippet instead.

The one-URL install

In Canvas, go to Admin, then Developer Keys, then + Developer Key, then + LTI Registration, and choose "Enter URL". Paste:

https://www.econlearn.org/api/lti/register

That is the whole process. EconLearn and your LMS exchange keys directly, and the tool is available immediately. Turn the resulting key ON and add the app to the account or a sub-account.

If dynamic registration is unavailable

Use the JSON configuration URL, or enter the endpoints by hand.

JSON configuration URL: https://www.econlearn.org/api/lti/config
OIDC initiation URL: https://www.econlearn.org/api/lti/login
Redirect / target link URI: https://www.econlearn.org/api/lti/launch
Public JWKS URL: https://www.econlearn.org/api/lti/jwks

What your teachers get

Supply and Demand. Drag either curve; equilibrium, surplus and shortage update live.
AD-AS Model. Aggregate demand and supply with short-run and long-run equilibrium.
Production Possibilities. Scarcity, tradeoffs and efficiency on a draggable frontier.
Elasticity. Watch total revenue respond as the curve's steepness changes.
Monopoly. MR below demand, the profit-maximizing quantity and deadweight loss.
Perfect Competition. The firm and the market side by side, with profit and loss shading.
Monopolistic Competition. Short-run profit eroding to the long-run tangency.
Production Costs. ATC, AVC and MC, and why marginal cost cuts both from below.
Factor Markets. Labor supply and demand with the firm's hiring decision.
Externalities. Social versus private cost, the wedge and the corrective tax.
Money Market. Money supply shifts and the nominal interest rate.
Fiscal Policy. Stimulus and contraction moving aggregate demand.
Loanable Funds. Saving, investment and the real interest rate.
Phillips Curve. The short-run tradeoff and the long-run vertical.
Exchange Rates. Currency appreciation and depreciation in the FOREX market.
International Trade. World price, tariffs, imports and the welfare boxes.
Business Cycle. Expansion, peak, recession and trough on the growth path.

What we collect about your students

Nothing that identifies them. An LTI launch offers a tool the user's name, email and role; EconLearn reads none of it into storage, and the tool registers itself with the privacy level set to anonymous. No account is created, no roster is synced, and no grade is passed back.

What is recorded is that a graph was opened, and the hostname of the site it was opened from, so we know which institutions use this. That is the same information any server receives in a request header. Full privacy policy.

Cost

The graphs, the glossary and the practice questions are free, permanently, for any school. Paid classroom tools exist for teachers who want assignments and a gradebook, and none of them are required to use this. See what teachers get.

Setup trouble, or an LMS not listed here? Email jude@econlearn.org and it gets answered the same day.