[Building Sakai] LTI roles in portfolio sites

[Maurer, Christopher Wayne]

Any chance the custom parameters will allow for certain variables to be expanded (like the web content tools)?  Like a ${role} or something?  Cause that would be ideal!  A quick look through the code seems to indicate that it will not.  But here's to hoping it's buried somewhere!

Chris

From: "sean.keesler" <sean.keesler at threecanoes.com<mailto:sean.keesler at threecanoes.com>>
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Date: Monday, March 25, 2013 7:05 PM
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Subject: [Building Sakai] LTI roles in portfolio sites

I'm noticing that the roles passed along in the LTI tool seem limited to that of a "Learner" and a "Instructor".
In a normal course site, the difference between learners and students, teachers and instructors are just a matter of semantics. Even TA's could be rationalized to be playing the role of an "Instructor" for most purposes.

However, in portfolio site there are a few different roles (Coordinators, Evaluators, Reviewers and Participants) with different parts to play in some portfolio processes.

When I test the LTI tool, I see the following mapping:

Sakai role                LTI Role
--------------------------------------------------------
CIG Coordinator       Instructor
Reviewer                 Learner
Participant               Learner
Evaluator                Learner

I'd like to be able to adjust this for our purposes and perhaps suggest that a different default behavior may be needed OOTB.

How would one configure a mapping between Sakai site roles and roles passed as part of the launch request?


Sean
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