[Building Sakai] LTI roles in portfolio sites

[Sean Keesler]

Great info. Thanks!
Sean Keesler
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sean.keesler at threecanoes.com


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
> Sean,
>
> For my money, the solution provided in
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/BLTI-145
>
> Is the simpler solution versus some complex kind of role mapping into IMS
> roles.  Ultimately as soon as you move away from Instructor and Learner -
> LMSs and tools are pretty patchy on interoperability w.r.t roles.   The next
> most widely agreed-to IMS role is Mentor.  So jumping through a bunch of
> hoops to map Sakai roles to not-wrdely-used IMS roles and then building a
> tool to look for IMS roles does not get you more interoperability - just
> more work and complexity.
>
> /Chuck
>
> On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:05 PM, sean.keesler 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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