New LTI services
At the IMS Quarterly Meeting last month it was decided that any new extensions to be made available for LTI 1 would be developed using the new LTI 2 framework. This has a number of benefits:the...
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WebPA dashboard
In an earlier post ("Extending LTI functionality in Learn 9") I reported on new functionality in the Basic LTI Building Block which allowed LTI-authorised content to be delivered via a module...
View ArticleLTI Workshop (Scotland)
On 18th November, Stephen and Simon gave another ceLTIc:developers workshop targeted at potential LTI developers in Scotland. The workshop was organised by the JISC RSC Scotland and in particular...
View ArticleWordPress LTI Plugin (IMSBasicLTI)
This LTI provider for WordPress is implemented as a must-use (mu) plugin as opposed to a network plugin. This means that to access the functionality of the plugin no special URL is required but there...
View ArticleJISC Online Conference
Enabling Teachers to Enhance the Learner ExperienceSimon and Stephen gave a presentation as part of the Actvity week for the JISC e-Learning Online Conference 2012. The presentation is best described...
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A Learning Experience — P3P and Cookie Blocking
One error it is easy to make when developing applications that will be used over the web is to forget that IE, Chrome, Firefox and all the other web browsers behave differently! It was late this week...
View ArticleIntroductory workshops at Queen Margaret University (QMU) on WebPA
As part of the ceLTIc project, two introductory WebPA workshops were held at QMU on Wednesday 14 November 2012. The workshops, facilitated by Julie Voce from Imperial College London and Susi Peacock...
View ArticleUpdates to Basic LTI Building Block for Learn 9
A new release (2.3.1) of the Basic LTI Building Block for Learn 9 is now available. This fixes a course copy issue with LTI links with associated grade centre colums and introduces a few new options...
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It's official: LTI is performance enhancing
On Monday 17 December, in an undercover operation, the JISC-funded ceLTIc project successfully intercepted a parcel destined for the Christmas market with the potential for seriously impacting learning...
View ArticleSynchronising group data
There are many learning applications which place students into groups, WebPA being a foremost example. When integrating them through LTI, how nice would it be for these applications to be able to take...
View ArticleWebPA logout menu option
Following the discussion at the last project meeting, I have implemented a further change to the development/test instance of WebPA and would welcome feedback.At present, the last option on the WebPA...
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Durham LTI Workshop
Stephen and Simon gave another LTI workshop as part of the 13th Blackboard Users’ Conference in Durham (many thanks to Malcolm Murray and the team at Durham for helping to organise the workshop — the...
View ArticleUsing an XML tool descriptor
I commented in an earlier posting ("LTI and Learn 9", 1 August 2012), that the process of defining a new LTI tool can be simplified by using an XML descriptor file. The LTI specification provides a...
View ArticleDurham Presentation
Stephen and Simon also presented on the ceLTIc:sharing project at the conference. The theme of the conference fitted very nicely with one of the goals of the project. The conference theme was: Make do...
View ArticleJava support for LTI
One of the deliverables from the ceLTIc:developers project is to "Create LTI tool provider classes for other programming languages". To this end, the PHP classes which have underpinned a lot of our...
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Rating LTI tool provider
As part of the developer workshops being run by the ceLTIc:developers project, we found a need to have a simple, but realistic, application to use to illustrate how to build a LTI tool provider. The...
View ArticleParasitic tool providers
When is a tool consumer also a tool provider? There are a few examples of applications which can behave as both an LTI tool consumer (like a VLE) as well as offering functionality to other tool...
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WebPA stats: January 2013
The attached graphs provide some statistics of the use of the production WebPA server provided as part of this project. I expect to see more institutions coming on line this semester.The first graph...
View ArticleTutors: Exporting forms from WebPA using Internet Explorer
We have discovered what appears to be a bug in Internet Explorer. The bug evidences itself when using WebPA in a frame/iframe and the VLE is in a different IE zone from WebPA. Typically when using a...
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WebPA stats: February 2013
This month (February) we welcomed a new participant to the project: Newcastle University. We also see Abderdeen and QMU running some assessments. Click on an image to view a larger version.
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