[Building Sakai] Looking for tutorial/example of using LTI in Sakai for login to separate website

[Charles Severance]

On Jul 17, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Paul Dickson <pdickson at ithaca.edu> wrote:

> Steve, Charles, I'm going to try to answer your questions together so that you guys don't have to worry about answering something the other already has.
> 
> I believe the total questions are these three:
> (a) What software is the web server running and what language?  Is it just flat files in Apache?  Is there some PHP/Java glue?
> The app is written in node.js/javascript. Node.js has several robust OAuth libraries (passport is the most notable) which can be used to authenticate using OAuth (v1 or v2) which I think is what you were talking about Steve. 

I have never grafted LTI into Node.js but if there is an OAuth 1.x library - writing LTI code is not much more work - but not something I am expert in.

> (b) Do you limit viewing to any class any student or do you maintain per-class access control lists?
> Any student in a class can view any recording from that class and that class only. (So if a student is in section 1 of intro programming they can only view the videos of section 1 of intro programming.)

How do you limit this currently?   Do you have folder names, do you use LDAP?

> (c) Do you control the software that uploads the recordings (i.e. like which directory things are put in?)  
> We have complete control of where all files go. All software was written in house and runs on Ubuntu 14.
> 
> Thanks for responding so quickly to my queries, it's taken me a little while to get back with details as this part of the lecture recording process is being developed at another institution. They have the web side of development but since they don't use Sakai I'm trying to figure out how to integrate the web server they have developed into our campus (and my server side web background is limited). So again thanks and any pointers to the right places to start finding examples or tutorials to look at would be much appreciated.

I am guessing that the software somehow knows which class it is dealing with and puts files in the right place for the class.

This all sounds doable - not trivial of course.   Th next set of questions really would start to dig into actual implementation details - and that is hard to do in email.

/Chuck

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