I am using Blackboard LMS and I am new with LTI staff. I want to know what is common cartridge & how it is related with LTI? Please also specify what are the differences between those?
LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) is used commonly in LMS (Education tools) like Blackboard or Canvas etc. It is method to provide access from one LMS to another LMS, so that portals can share their contents. In short, If one LMS named A (LTI Consumer) want to read some study material from LMS B (LTI Provider) then A will launch a valid LTI request (Specification are provided by IMS Global) and B will validate the LTI & parse the data from request. Finally B will share its content. You can get details about LTI standard from here.
Common cartridge is also provided by IMS Global. However, it is a format specification (XML) which is used to create exams, study materials etc. automatically. For example, if some one has an admin account in Blackboard LMS and he wants to share a course content to his Canvas LMS account. Then instead of creating each courses, exams or materials manually in Canvas LMS, he can easily export its course content from Blackboard LMS and then import it on Canvas LMS. Exported content should be in common cartridge format (.imscc). currently, common cartridge version 1.1.0 are widely popular. You can get details about common cartridge here .
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I'm struggling with this since a week... I have tried so many things, read so many documentations (walkthrougsh), I can't find any solutions and I have lost the clarity. I really need your help.
I have created a simple Rails app.
I have a Power BI account and a Azure account.
I'm using an example set of data on PowerBI (Retail Analysis Sample).
I want my users to signin on my app (through devise), then access to some pages and see embedded PowerBI Tiles (or report, or dashboard maybe). Then I want them to be able to filter the results. A client-side example is https://microsoft.github.io/PowerBI-JavaScript/demo/filters.html.
I want to be able to do the same.
I'm lost with all the client id, secret, ressource uri, ressource url, ...
What solution/walkthrough must I use?
Thank you so much for your time
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New tile API allows to integrate content from a user’s Power BI
account into application UI for tiles that are on a user’s
dashboards. You can leverage this to add personalized BI content from
your user’s Power BI account into your application.
See documentation
A Sample application
You may want to look into Power Bi Embedded here. This will allow you to control who can see what content from within your application without having to authenticate with the Power Bi service. Power Bi Embedded is an azure service that allows you to upload pbix files which are then subsequently available for view by using an "Access key" to get a token to view the report. I know it works well for displaying "Reports," I am not sure about just showing "Tiles." They recently released RLS and some new Javascript SDK for more advanced features like filtering, check that here.
Hope this helps.
I write the application on Node.js and I need to get information from the forum, which works on the engine IP.Board. I decided to use XML-RPC API. On this issue there is an article In the administrative tools set support for XML-RPC API on the website of the IPB. I managed to get some information through the API, but I don't know how to authenticate a user.
My actions:
In the administrative tools set support for XML-RPC API
Add user and allow to perform all methods
Copy the key and use in my application
But when it comes to posting on the forum from outside I have trouble . Read the article linked above:
method postTopic
member_field: This should be the field to look up the 'member_key' in
(for instance, 'member_id', 'email', 'members_display_name', etc.)
member_key: The value to search in 'member_field' with in order to find the poster. You may pass member_field as ID and member_key as
1, for instance, to post a topic as member ID 1.
forum_id: The ID of the forum to post the topic in
topic_title: The topic title
post_content: The contents of the first post
Now I need to know the ID of the user on whose behalf to publish a post. How to know this?
I had a similar problem and simple solution is not found. You can write your extension for IPB and implement the necessary APIs themselves. Using IPB XML-RPC API (at the time of publication of the question), you can only yourself to find out the ID of a user and on his behalf to make the publication, publish answers or use other available options. For example, automatically check the availability of offensive language in the message and answer any warning.
I am using Desire2Learn Valence PHP API to create, retrieve and update users demographics as found here Demographics (data types, fields, users and org units). I am successful in creating and viewing demographics fields using the valence API calls.
The problem is that I cannot find anywhere in the web interface UI, where to view that students demographics fields that have been created using valence.
Does something need to be enabled in the DOME to view the demographics?
Or, are the demographic fields, only part of valence, and not the web UI?
The demographic fields are currently exposed in Valence only. We're looking at how they may be used in other parts of the system but have not included anything into the core UI just yet. We wanted to make this available to app developers and clients but didn't want them to have to wait for exposure in the UI.
There's some obvious places we may want to expose the fields but also lots places we haven't thought about that are important. We're interested in hearing more about where people would like to see these being used.
I recently decided to start to take advantage of rich snippets to improve my personal website's content for the search engines and, IMHO most importantly, the site readers – hi, Mam! ;-). One of these are Google Authorship. Personally, I think the idea behind Google Authorship is a sound one: it helps to brings a sense of identity, personality and – arguably, most importantly – credibility to what is still largely an anonymous web.
Normally, I would link my article to Google Authorship using the following line of HTML:
<A REL="author" HREF="https://plus.google.com/112431363835029530079?rel=author">Jordan Clark</A>
However, in the instance of a website that publishes articles that are written by multiple authors, manually entering each another’s Google+ UID string starts to become a tiresome process.
Is is valid to do the following:
(a) Link to the author like so, using the script "author.php" (or other type of server-side script).
<A REL="author" HREF="/author.php?by=Alice&rel=author/[UID]?rel=author">Alice</A>
(b) The file "author.php" scripts simply do a quick check for Alice's (or whoever) User ID string provided by Google, and then uses a simple HTTP redirect header to pass this data to Google.
What I would like to know is:
Is it okay to use a local script to redirect to your Google+ user profile? (i.e. will it affect the PageRank of already indexed page or have any other unforeseen negative effects on new and indexed pages?)
Why do I not see more people linking with Google’s “prettified” version:
http://profiles.google.com/clarky.y2k?rel=author
Are there any drawbacks to using the “prettified” version of this method?
Ideally, I would like to use the intermediate PHP script, as I have already described above (see part 1). However, any tips, suggestions or other ways you may have implemented on your websites are very welcome!
For item (1), you can maintain your own app's profiles (author.php in your case) for your authors. On your own app's profile page (author.php), you would add a link from that page to Google and specify the rel="me" attribute on that link. So Alice's profile page might say something like "Find Alice on Google+.
This indirect authorship linking is supported. You also will need the link from Alice's Google+ profile that lists her as a contributor to your site. Once the linking is setup in both directions, authorship can start to show up. Authorship won't always display in all cases and can take some time for it to start appearing as Google would need to reindex your pages.
For item (2), I don't think the profiles URL will enable authorship. Some people use that URL as a vanity URL, but as far as I know it isn't supported for use with things like authorship, badges, etc.
You should test if your redirects are followed using the Rich Snippets Testing Tool: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
rel="author" is no longer supported.
I am in researh mood and one of the tasks I have in my to do list is:
"Finalize the techonlogy to use for creating a web interface to my existing Client Server application".
My application is very rich and full of features. It makes sense it is has rich client UI, because it is a productivity tool. Many shortcuts, many things without any click. So I am not looking for a full replacement.
My app has some features that would be good to be used also from a web interface.
Some of them:
1) multi user calendar (every item I see in the calendar is linked to something in my app, for example "today 11:00: recall customer 'Dummy ltd'". This is not a simple memo, it is also linked to the customer), so i can see my and others tasks.
2) Confirm some task (yes I did this!)
3) see some report (some graph or some tabular report)
Of course this are not simple outputs, they can contain some logic (for example some calendar items must be readonly, some others can be edited).
This said, I was considering whether doing all this with Google would be a reasonable choice. In this way I don't have to install anything, simply interfacing with google would be enough. I can map my application users to one (or more) google users and use all the google features (calendar, charts, tasks, ....).
May you comment on this? Which are the good/bad points.
Some good points I can forsee:
1) no need to design any UI, just connect to an existing powerful and userfriendly system
2) the applicatino will automatically be compatible with google ("is it possible to export on google?" is a typical question I recieve)
3) google already provides the interface for the points I wrote above (tasks, calendar, charts, ...)
4) no deployment issues. No server hosting. just need to configure the users with some wizard.
Some bad points:
1) Which is the long term support? Will the Google APIs change every month or some of them will be stable for years?
2) How much may I push? How much is it possible to customize? I mean can I write some logic like "this item is readonly", "this item is not"? (afaik in google I can share a calendar with other people, in different ways, but there is no way to make only a part of it readonly. Of course I could do this with a trick, like having 2 calendars, one readonly and the other not. But is it possible to change the default google behaviour like for example in calendar case?)
3) of course I am limited, writing "from scratch" allows me to do everything.
Final note: my app is a Delphi client/server application. The communication will be done from an application server that will interact with the google apis.
As I understand, the API are stable, for example the Calendar API documentation says
Google periodically updates the
Calendar Data API in order to deliver
new features and to repair defects
discovered in previous versions. In
most cases, these changes will be
transparent to API developers.
However, occasionally we need to make
changes that require developers to
modify their existing applications.
So as long as the service exists I would expect only small changes. Services however can disappear from one day to the other (see Google Wave for example) so I would check the requirements of an 'exit strategy', at least a way to export the most critical information.
My application is very rich and full
of features. It makes sense it is has
rich client UI, because it is a
productivity tool
It sounds like Morfik might be a good choice for creating web interface for your application. Once you like it, you might even make the whole application in it. ;-)