[Using Sakai] Sakai and turnitin Integration - major development

Tue Jan 22 06:05:41 PST 2013

First I've heard of this - iParadigm did a fair amount of work on
Content Review last year so this surprises me ...

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On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 12:44 +0000, Adam Marshall wrote:
> It depends what you mean by "the new API".
>
> They are currently writing a "brand new API" which will replace the current API. By all accounts it doesn't have the same Service endpoints so the code that Sakai uses to talk to Turnitin will have to be rewritten. I have no idea whether this a big or small job.
>
> The current API will be withdrawn at some point.
>
> adam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com]
> Sent: 22 January 2013 12:28
> To: Adam Marshall
> Cc: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Sakai and turnitin Integration - major development
>
> Surely an integration could be written for the new API, they aren't withdrawing that as well are they? That would be suicide.
>
> The integration only needs to be fairly lightweight, doesn't sound like a huge task.
>
> The LTI option doesn't sound great, most LMS's would have an assignments tool already, why embed another one when what you really want is an integration!?
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 22/01/2013, at 22:05, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > I sent this to sakai-dev yesterday but got absolutely no response so thought I would post it here to open up discussion.
> >
> > As I understand it there will come a time in the near future when iParadigms withdraw the current Content Review API which will mean there will be no Turnitin integration with either Assignments 1 or Assignments 2.
> >
> > It looks like iParadigms will recommend that we use IMS LTI to achieve integration.
> >
> > My understanding of this is that if one wants to check for plagiarism, then one will have to set up assignments within the Turnitin site. This will mean no calendar integration and two separate 'Assignment tools': there will be the current Assignments Tool (with no content review) and a new LTI Tool with plagiarism checking but no Calendar or other Sakai integration. For assignments that use the content review service, students will still be able to submit their assignment by clicking on a link in Sakai but will end up outside of Sakai on the Turnitin site.
> >
> > The Sakai community needs a plan - does anybody have any comments?
> >
> > adam
> >
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > We asked iParadigms:
> >
> > [....] please could you let me know what the progress is on the development of the new TII API, and what date you envisage it will be available.
> >
> > We need to plan what aspects of the current Sakai integration we should work on, and schedule when we will be able to test against the new TII API.
> >
> > Also just a reminder that the EuroSakai conference is taking place in Paris next week (28-30 Jan), and our team will be organising a 'Birds of a Feather' session to talk about the Sakai Assignments tools 1 and 2. It would be good to have more concrete information about the new TII API and what the improvements will be.
> >
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > They responded:
> >
> > Progress has been very good and the new API is still currently scheduled to be launched towards the end of next month/beginning of March.  However we will not be re-writing the Sakai integration against the new API as such, we will be writing an LTI component (IMS global standard) for the new Sakai integration and this is in the plan for this summer!   So in around 6 months time.   I hope this will fit into your plans as we would advise against doing any custom work, due to our plans for LTI with a view to release in the summer.
> >
> > Unfortunately that probably won't be possible to send someone.    I can still speak to the team though and let you know otherwise if we can.  I am at the BETT show on those dates so won't be able to attend.
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > Regards
> > Mark
> > --
> > Mark Harnor
> > Business Development Manager
> >
> > Turnitin is a Registered product of iParadigms Europe Limited which is a  wholly owned subsidiary of iParadigms LLC. iParadigms Europe Limited is a  company registered in England and Wales with company number   07321841.
> >
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