RoC Westerschelde

1. Central Computer Services
MediaMosa – BasicLTI Provider
A single MediaMosa tool for multiple LMSs

2. What is BasicLTI?
¢ Basic Learning Tools Interoperability
¢ IMS Standard
£ http://www.imsglobal.org/lti/index.html
¢ Run a tool as if it is in the application
¢ Consumers and providers
¢ Available as consumer in current version of
Blackboard, Sakai, uPortal (as Portlet), Moodle
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3. Why BasicLTI?
¢ Same tool functionality has to be coded for multiple LMS
platforms.
¢ Requires vendor specific knowledge on how to build a
tool (or ‘module’, or‘ buildingblock’) and incorporate it in
a specific LMS.
¢ The proprietary interfaces are very similar but different.
And involve high costs of integrating.
¢ BasicLTI provides a simple common plugin system.
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4. Provider and Consumer
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5. Moodle UPortal BasicLTI
Sakai BlackBoard
CONSUMERS
BasicLTI Provider
wrapper
BasicLTI
PROVIDER
MediaMosa
Tool
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6. MediaMosa tool features
¢ Role based (Instructor, Student)
¢ Play, upload, edit metadata, search media
content
¢ Internationalization (i18n)
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7. Lessons Learned
¢ Using BasicLTI servlet filter, instead of
dedicated provider application
¢ Servlet filter is opensource
¢ http://code.google.com/p/ims-dev/source/
browse/trunk/basiclti/java-filter
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8. Lessons Learned
¢ Consumer tool differ in attributes they pass
¢ A few are required rest is optional (but usefull)
¢ Consumers can restrict passing of personal info
¢ Application internal userids need
synchronisation
¢ Deeper level of integration desired
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9. Future
¢ uPortal BasicLTI portlet
¢ Bugfixes
¢ SURFconext BasicLTI MediaMosa?
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10. Demo
¢ MediaMosa BasicLTI in Sakai
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11. Demo
¢ MediaMosa BasicLTI in Blackboard
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12. Download and Documentation
¢ https://github.com/tomkuipers/MediaMosa-BasicLTI
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13. Questions
¢ Contact Tom.Kuipers@uva.nl
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