LTI Portlet

I am very pleased to be able to share an important update with the Sakai community regarding the ongoing efforts to create a flexible migration path from Sakai 2 to Sakai 3. I have been blogging recently [1] [2] about the development of a new Basic LTI widget for Sakai 3.

A quick blog post demonstrating Sakai 3’s new Basic LTI consumer passing the LTI certification test suite. You will get to see the first look at the new Sakai 3 widget but more importantly, you will see it passing 100% of the certification tests! This is a prelude to the screencast where the use of the BLTI widget will be used to expose Sakai 2 tools onto Sakai 3 pages as widgets. Stay tuned…

I am returning from a very productive trip to Japan to participate in the 3rd Annual Ja-Sakai Conference (which I will blog about shortly) – but I did want to provide a quick update on the progress I have made in developing the Sakai 3 Basic LTI consumer widget. In my previous post on this subject, Sakai 3 Basic LTI Widget Sprint, I outlined five action items:

December 2009 was a short but productive month. I worked with the Karen Tsao (Stanford) on Test & Quizzes, Nuno Fernandes (Universidade Fernando Pessoa) on SiteStats, Megan May (Indiana) on Messages and Forums, Chuck Severance (Michigan) on BasicLTI and Steve Swinsburg (Australian National University) on Profile2/profile classic. My contribution involved refactoring each project's Maven pom files and adding an assembly module in order to automate the generation of stable tags and binaries.

Development was starting to slow down for me on the Sakai2+3 Hybrid Mode, so I needed to turn my primary focus elsewhere. Michael Korcuska and I had decided previously that the next focus point would be to develop a working prototype that would allow someone to take a zip file exported from Sakai 2’s Site Archive tool and import the content into Sakai 3. Initially the scope would be limited to just the content contained within the Resources tool (a.k.a.

Occasionally, people wonder what the Sakai Foundation staff do in support of the Sakai Community.  Below is a summary of my work since the Sakai Conference held in Boston in July 2009:

This past Wednesday, in the waning hours before the holiday in the US, the Product Council gathered to reach its first set of decisions: what new tools and capabilities were ready to go forward into the 2.7 release.