[Building Sakai] Turnitin ConnectedIn agreement

Wed Mar 20 10:02:02 PDT 2013

From: Mark Harnor [mailto:mharnor at turnitin.com]
Sent: 20 March 2013 16:34
To: Adam Marshall
Subject: Fwd: [Building Sakai] Turnitin ConnectedIn agreement

Hi Adam

Hope you are well.

Can you post our response below to the Sakai community please?   I do not have access yet to post responses to the community.

Regards
Mark
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From: Mark Harnor <mharnor at turnitin.com<mailto:mharnor at turnitin.com>>
Date: 20 March 2013 16:23
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Turnitin ConnectedIn agreement
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>, sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>

Dear Sakai Community

In response to the post below, any institution in the Sakai community can carry out development on Sakai, such is the nature of the Sakai community.  Our intention is to provide a better approach for supporting this community in two ways.

Firstly, the new Turnitin SDK's are built upon a new and greatly improved API, and will help ensure future integrations with Turnitin are robust and reliable.

Secondly, we are offering a formalised support agreement to institutions that would like support from our integrations team.   The Turnitin ConnectItIn agreement allows institutions to secure this support via adhering to rules of engagement around a defined QA process. Once signed, Turnitin will support the completed integration and respond to requests for help regarding the SDK, API, and the actual Turnitin product where exposed. Support for the non-Turnitin aspects of any community-built application would of course remain with the community.

We think this approach is the best way for Turnitin to provide quality service to our partners and customers.  To be clear, Turnitin will not charge for this support and any Turnitin institution undertaking Sakai development can take advantage of it by signing the ConnectItIn agreement.

We see this as a partnership and welcome the communities feedback.

TURNITIN
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Subject:

[Building Sakai] Turnitin ConnectedIn agreement

Date:

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:10:37 +0000

From:

Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk><mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>

To:

Sakai Developers <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org><mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>, "sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org"<mailto:sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org> <sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org><mailto:sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>

Am forwarding this on behalf of a colleague.

In short, iParadigms are telling us that anybody who wishes to develop against their new API will need to sign a ConnectedIn agreement and outline the QA processes that any integration code will undergo. We think this means that "every developer" must sign not just the foundation.

Whether this applies to people who download Sakai and want to fix a bug is not clear, nor is it clear if everybody who wants to *use* the new TII API will also have to sign.

I think that in the past somebody somewhere has done a poor integration and iParagdigms had to deal with complaints when it wasnt their fault. I'm not sure what the action will be if some of our integration code exhibits a bug one day!!

There is some good news: the new Turnitin API will include anonymous marking and integration with PeerMark, both of which are highly desirable features (for us).

Adam

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>From Jill Fresen

Here's info that recently appeared on the TII website, mainly pushing the forthcoming LTI tool:

http://submit.ac.uk/en_us/integrations/api-integration-plans

What it doesn't say on the website is what I have been told by iParadigms Europe, namely that any institution/developer wishing to develop against the new API and Java SDK will be required to sign a ConnectedIn agreement before those tools will be made available to them. (Many reasons have been communicated to me verbally for the reason behind this decision).

The ConnedtedIn draft document is currently being reviewed by the iParadigms Chief Operations Officer in the USA and will not be available for another few weeks.

There are a few questions:

1. Who in the Sakai community will take responsibility for signing a ConnectedIn agreement with iParadigms?

2. Who in the Sakai community will undertake the work that is required on Content Review, in order to talk to the Java SDK and in turn the new Turnitin API?

It has been suggested that we should ask the iParadigms team to participate in the Sakai dev mailing list to interact with the community...

Jill

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