[Building Sakai] Example how to use LTI Basic Outcomes Service

Steve Swinsburg steve.swinsburg at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 08:15:48 PDT 2012


So forgetting 2.8 for the moment, is there doco on how one would use LTI 1.1 in Sakai specifically to return a grade?

Cheers,
S

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On 20/04/2012, at 12:53 AM, csev <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 18, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Mark Breuker wrote:
> 
>> In the release notes of Sakai 2.8.0 [1] it says: "Support for IMS BasicLTI outcomes". This is then incorrect?
>> 
>> - Mark
>> 
>> [1] https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.8+release+notes
> 
> 
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Nice catch.
> 
> There is support for Outcomes in Sakai 2.8 but not the LTI 1.1 outcomes.   Thanks for jogging my memory.
> 
> I created a little set of "extensions" to LTI 1.0 that I implemented in Sakai 2.8 before LTI 1.1 was finished.   The Sakai 2.8 outcomes look quite different than the Sakai 2.9 / LTI 1.1 outcomes.   But the data model is the same and a tool can easily support both approaches because there are signals in the POST data as to which version of the service is supported.
> 
> The documentation for those extensions has never been made public because they were an IMS internal document that will not ever be published.   I have documentation I can share privately and even some sample code for the 2.8 outcomes.  I have to dig it up.
> 
> While the 2.8 (non-standard) extensions are not exactly the same as LTI 1.1 - they are still far better than writing a whole new web service.
> 
> If someone really wants to build grade return that works for both 2.8 and 2.9, I am happy to help - some info will have to be sent off-line until I can write new documentation that is suitable for public distribution.
> 
> /Chuck
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