[Building Sakai] BasicLTI Virtual Tool setup

D. Stuart Freeman stuart.freeman at et.gatech.edu
Thu Dec 1 10:28:15 PST 2011


I'm trying to setup a "virtual tool" for piazza's basicLTI integration on
our 2.5.x CLE instance. I've got the basicLTI tool version 1.3.1
installed and working, but when I edit IMSBLTIPortlet.xml to add:

<tool id="sakai.piazza" title="Piazza" description="Piazza Q&A for
Classrooms">

  <configuration name="sakai:portlet-pre-render" value="true" />
  <category name="course" />

  <configuration name="functions.require" />

  <configuration name="imsti.launch" value="https://piazza.com/basic_lti" />
  <configuration name="imsti.xml" />
  <configuration name="imsti.secret" />
  <configuration name="imsti.key" value="gatech.edu" />
  <configuration name="imsti.pagetitle" />
  <configuration name="imsti.tooltitle" />
  <configuration name="imsti.frameheight" />
  <configuration name="imsti.debug" value="false" />
  <configuration name="imsti.releasename" value="on" />
  <configuration name="imsti.releaseemail" value="on" />

  <configuration name="final.launch" value="true"/>
  <configuration name="final.xml" value="true"/>
  <configuration name="final.secret" value="true"/>
  <configuration name="final.key" value="true"/>
  <configuration name="final.pagetitle" value="false"/>
  <configuration name="final.tooltitle" value="false"/>
  <configuration name="final.newpage" value="false"/>
  <configuration name="final.frameheight" value="false"/>
  <configuration name="final.debug" value="true"/>
  <configuration name="final.releasename" value="true" />
  <configuration name="final.releaseemail" value="true" />
</tool>

And put the 'sakai.piazza.secret' in my properties file, the 'Piazza'
tool doesn't show up in the list of available tools when I edit a site,
but the BasicLTI tool does still get listed there. I don't see 'piazza'
anywhere in catalina.out nor any messages from lti that aren't there when
I start without the modified xml.

Can anyone give me a bump in the right direction?

Thanks,
-- 
D. Stuart Freeman
Georgia Institute of Technology
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