[Building Sakai] gradebook and gradebook2 iRubric integration

John Bush jbush at rsmart.com
Thu Sep 27 12:06:19 PDT 2012


Fantastic, that sounds like exactly the sort of thing we ought to be
leveraging here.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
> 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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