[Building Sakai] gradebook and gradebook2 iRubric integration

[Ramesh Sabetiashraf]

We did the Gradebook2 integration slightly differently than the Gradebook
integration.  In GB2, the integration is at the gradebook-item level, i.e.
the instructor clicks on the gradebook item to launch iRubric.  In Gradebook
and Assignment tools, the integration is more granular and is at student +
gradebook-item level, i.e. instructor launches iRubric for each student and
gradebook item.  What level of granularity does Sakai LTI (or Gradebook2)
support?

 

Also, can LTI support returning the grade back to the user interface, as
opposed to updating the database directly?  That won't be needed for GB2,
but is needed for GB, Assignments, and Assignments 2.

 

Ramesh

 

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Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:19 AM
To: Jon Gorrono
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Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] gradebook and gradebook2 iRubric integration

 

The latest LTI code basically has a bunch of API calls that allow tools to
make, manage and launch LTI placements under tool control.  This is in 2.9
and easily ported to 2.8 - the post-2.9 trunk code in LTI has a cleaned up
UI and better integration with Site Info as well.

 

It is how we made LTI work as a core resource type in LessonBuilder.

 

/Chuck

 

On Sep 26, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Jon Gorrono wrote:





I don't think this is crazy at all, and is just what I think we had in mind.

One thing I wanted to add is that the BLTI version that was targetee for 2.8
includes a mechanism for pushing and updating grades, so perhaps a ws
callback would not be necessary. And, IIRC a grade is a number between
0 and 1 in the spec.

WRT GB2, there are some basic UI components that Ramesh and crew introduced
in
their coding and those are good ones in general: a button for updating
grades (via a 'pull' or request for a 'push') for one. And those bits
are also relevant to any other tool supplying grades to the sakai
gradebook (edu-services), so the thought was for GB2 to introduce a
general mechanism for handling those things. And that mechanism would be
(and in simpler cases, perhaps not) the BLTI launch mechanism...



 

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