[Building Sakai] BLTI-119 New Basic LTI (External Tools) Support in trunk - With demo video

[Shun Zhang]

Hi, I'm glad to hear this. BasicLTI is very useful , we're using BasicLTI
Portlet for integrating our App with Sakai, BB and so on.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:38 PM, csev <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Over the weekend, I landed a new feature in trunk to support Basic LTI as
> "External Tools" in a manner similar to Moodle, ATutor, Blackboard, D2L and
> Canvas.  While our BLTI support was one of the first in the market (in 2.7)
> - these other folks ended up with nice integrations that were well-connected
> to their content tools (i.e. like Lesson Builder and Melete).
>
> This new feature adds a capability to the Administrator Workspace and Site
> Info to allow the Admin and Site Maintainers to manage their own
> general-purpose LTI tools and use them throughout Sakai as simple URLs.
>
> Video Demo:  http://vimeo.com/26811959
>
> JIRA: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/BLTI-119<https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/>
>
> Blog Post:
> http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/2011/07/sakai-2-9-external-tool-support-ims-basic-lti/
>
> Test Plan:
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/basiclti/trunk/basiclti-docs/resources/docs/BLTI_Admin_TestPlan.txt
>
> If you had some spare time and were interested, I would appreciate someone
> running through the test plan on nightly2.sakaiproject.org and filing any
> bugs you find under BLTI in JIRA.
>
> Up next is a deep integration into Lesson Builder.  That should be done
> this week.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> /Chuck
>
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