[Building Sakai] LTI Tool Consumer certification test results (ref: 9c4b2b44-fd14-442f-9962-6f1f71163848)

[Steve Swinsburg]

Whats the LTI2 logo and we can all get them ;)


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

>
> On Feb 14, 2014, at 5:22 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Are saying that the IMS LTI 2.0 spec is now finalised, published and is
> not subject to any more discussion / modification etc.?
>
> I was talking to the folks from iParadigm yesterday who seemed to think it
> wouldn't be published until mid 2015. I will correct them!
>
> Good old Sakai - leading the field once more! Does this mean another
> tattoo then?
>
> adam
>
>
> Yes - The Spec has been finalised and published for over a month.
>
> What got finished this week was the certification test.  In effect IMS
> insists that the certification test is not official until at least two real
> products can pass the certification test.   The two products that were used
> to certify the certification were Sakai and Vitalsource.  It is a bit of a
> rough go for the first two (pioneers with arrows in their back and all)
> that pass the test because as we progress through months of iterations
> sometimes the spec is changed, sometimes the implementations are changed,
> and sometimes the tests change and all the way we make sure that we
> maintain consensus by meeting and approving each tweak.  We have had a
> working-but-not-final LTI 2.0 implementation in Sakai since the summer -
> but if you look a the commits you will see that it has evolved as last
> minute changes were made to the spec and tests as we found and fixed little
> mistakes or rough edges here and there.  Thankfully, I have good financial
> support for all the travel and my time spent coding because writing LTI 2.0
> and participating in the finalisation of the spec has nearly been a year of
> heavy effort.
>
> So it is open season on LTI 2.0.   Folks can start developing now, Sakai's
> nightly server functions as the best test harness for LTI 2.0 that is
> available :)  There is code for Java, PHP, and Rails in various stages of
> maturity.   The reusable Java and PHP code I wrote is of course
> Apache-licensed -  some of the other code is not yet publicly available.
>
> In terms of Tattoos, I will likely do something when the first mainstream
> LMS ships LTI 2.0...  Which I hope to see before the end of this year.
>
> /Chuck
>
>
>
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