[Building Sakai] LTI roles in portfolio sites

[Matthew Jones]

It looks like in the code, if the user is in the maintain role for the site
they get Instructor, otherwise they get Learner. For a porfolio site realm
the default maintain role is "CIG Coordinator" Any other custom mapping or
logic seems like it would require some code changes.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:05 PM, sean.keesler
<sean.keesler at threecanoes.com>wrote:

> **
> 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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