2016-03-03 Meeting notes

Owned by Joel Barciauskas (Deactivated)
Mar 07, 2016

Attendees: Douglas Hall (Unlicensed), Robert Raposa, Joel Barciauskas (Deactivated), John Zornig, (deprecated) Pinch (Unlicensed), Derek White (Unlicensed), gbruhnsR (Deactivated), Braden MacDonald

LTI Provider Discussion

Use Case Concerns

  • LTI for SSO

    • Desired by partners

    • Sometimes SSO via LMS is more advantageous than campus shibboleth SSO

    • Would need to automatically enroll users in a course

    • Is LTI the right solution for this?

    • Might work for the use case of LTI to an entire course (rather than parts of a course)

      • Students would be able to get to edX as a whole

      • Desire to mix with user created accounts that could represent both LTI and non-LTI courses

  • Data analytics

    • What are the needs and possibilities for analytics in the simple use case of LTI for course content with anonymous user vs LTI SSO to an entire course.

  • Grade passback errors

    • How to avoid data loss?

    • Could grade passback be triggered again for a course or per student from the LMS?  Student lookup would need to use api to deal with anonymous user id.

  • Grade updates

    • Could the grade be passed back after 1 minute, rather than after 15 minutes?  Something in between?

Derek/UBC feedback using LTI provider on Edge

  • Using Blackboard

  • Small rendering issues

  • Overall positive experience

Mentioned potential upcoming expanded LTI Provider beta

Many LTI providers do create accounts for managing context, and commonly commercial products that support LTI want to build their userbase through this mechanism.

Import/export course fragments

John Zornig, UQx

  • For learning designers, the flexibility to move around pieces of a course would be very valuable and save a lot of time

  • It’s difficult to reorder a course in Studio, need to respecify a lot in each section

Peter Pinch, MIT

  • MIT would like an API for import and export

  • There needs to be a way to determine what the desired location is

  • Add things to the end of a library, and implement a “pick a block from a library” module (Braden)

No need seen at the moment for limiting depth/scope - just export all children

Use case for a filtered export: give me all videos or all problems

  • Course blocks API soon to support this, talk to Adam

Would we want roles and permissions to follow existing? What about system level users?

To promote more content reuse / sharing, we should consider how to grab content from courses in order to be able to use it, if it is publicly licensed, e.g., Creative Commons

  • Potentially add the ability to export from the LMS

  • Include assets related to course fragments

    • Need to consider how licensing relates to each piece of content in the course, if parts are licensed differently