2019 Learning Impact Leadership Institute

The Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) and Badge Connect API are two new specifications under development by IMS as part of the IMS Digital Credentials initiative. CLR is a new model for verifiable digital learner records that include traditional transcript records such as courses and grades, as well as achievements such as competencies, skills, badges, certificates, co-curricular experiences, and more. Badge Connect API enables Open Badges 2.0 tools that issue, display, and/or host badges to provide features for users to authorize where their badges are collected and displayed. This standard reduces the need for OBv2 products to develop custom integrations with various tools and platforms, and it further enables a learner-centric credentials ecosystem. Together, these two specifications provide a powerful framework that enables learners to prove their achievements.


1:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Comprehensive Learner Record

• Intro: User stories and conceptual model
• Demonstrations and samples
• Information model
• REST services
•  Specification status and conformance certification

2:45 pm -3:15 pm
Break

3:15 pm - 5:00 pm 
Badge Connect API

• Intro: User stories and conceptual model
• Demonstrations and samples
• Information model
• REST services
•  Specification status and conformance certification

The IMS Caliper Analytics specification enables institutions to collect learning data from digital resources to better understand and visualize learning activity and product usage data, and present this information to students, instructors, and advisors in meaningful ways. Caliper defines a number of metric profiles, each of which models a learning activity or a supporting activity that helps facilitate learning. Each profile provides a domain-specific set of terms and concepts that application designers and developers can draw upon to describe common user interactions in a consistent manner using a shared vocabulary. Annotating a reading, playing a video, taking a test, or grading an assignment submission represent a few examples of the many activities or events that Caliper's metric profiles attempt to describe. Version 1.1 of the specification was publish in January 2018 and this included several new Caliper Profiles.  Version 1.2 is planned for public release in late 2019.

This all-day session will have two strands designed to support both newcomers and experts. In the half-day bootcamp (morning only) the presenters will give an overview of the specification, demonstrate the process of conformance and certification and show how the specification is used in deployed products.

Attendees at the bootcamp will:

• Learn how the Caliper Analytics specification can be used within various learning systems
• Learn how to use the Sensor API conformance test systems to become certified
• Learn how the IMS Caliper Analytics specification uses LTI Advantage
• See demonstrations of the use of the Caliper Analytics specification by certified products

In the afternoon hackathon the presenters will help developers create a Sensor API, undertake conformance and certification using either the reference implementations or a proprietary solution. Attendees at the hackathon will:

• Start developing a proprietary Sensor API
• Learn how to use the Sensor API reference implementations supplied by IMS
• Be able to undertake conformance and certification for the Sensor APIs
• Interact with the presenters who have significant experience in implementing Sensor API compliant products.

The IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard prescribes a way to easily and securely connect learning applications and tools with platforms like learning management systems (LMS), portals and learning object repositories on your premise or in the cloud, in a secure and standard manner and without the need for expensive custom programming. LTI Advantage is a package of key LTI services that build on LTI v1.3 to implement features that support teaching and learning activities, such as the provisioning of users and roles so a tool can intelligently address the learner on launch, and the sharing of assignments from a platform to an assessment tool and the subsequent scores back to a central gradebook.

This all-day session will have two strands designed to support both newcomers and experts. In the half-day bootcamp (morning only) the IMS staff will give an overview of the specification, demonstrate the process of conformance and certification and show how the specification is used in deployed products. Attendees at the bootcamp will:

• Learn how the LTI Advantage specification can be used within various learning systems
• Learn how to use the LTI Advantage conformance test systems to become certified
• Learn how the IMS Caliper Analytics, IMS LTI Resource Search and IMS Proctoring specifications use LTI Advantage
• See demonstrations of the use of the LTI Advantage by certified products

In the full-day hackathon the IMS staff will help developers implement the specification using the new LTI Advantage Toolkit, undertake conformance and certification and test integration against other vendor implementations. In previous all-day hackathons participants have been able to get their Tools through LTI 1.3 certification. Attendees at the hackathon will:

• Learn how to use the LTI Advantage Toolkit created to help developers of LTI Tools and Platforms
• Be able to undertake conformance and certification for their Tools and/or Platforms
• Learn how to migrate LTI 1.x implementations to LTI Advantage
• Interact with the IMS staff who have significant experience in implementing LTI Advantage compliant Tools and Platforms.

The Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Resource Search specification defines how to search digital repositories for a set of resources via a web services API. The standard addresses searching learning object repositories (LORs), and other catalogs of learning resources. The specification supports executing these search from learning tools using various attributes of resources and returning full metadata about the resources to the learning tools. Results can be launched either as URLs or LTI links. The goal of the LTI Resource Search standard is a standard way for students and teachers to be able to search resource providers, such as learning object repositories, from single sources or aggregated from multiple sources, within a learning object consumer such as a learning management system or other educational platform.

The presenters will give an overview of the specification, demonstrate the process of conformance and certification and show how the specification is used in deployed products. Attendees at the workshop will:

• Learn how to build and execute LTI Resource Search specification queries within their learning tools
• Learn how to use the LTI Resource Search conformance test systems to become certified
• Learn how your development team can make best use of the LTI Resource Search specification and released artifacts
• See demonstrations of the use of the LTI Resource Search by certified products

The IMS OneRoster specification defines how student information systems, learning management systems, assessment systems, etc. exchange information about student enrolments, grade books and access to learning resources.  Version 1.0 of the specification was published in mid 2015 with version 1.1 released in September 2018.  Currently version 1.2 is under development with release to the public expected in the third quarter of 2019.  The OneRoster specification has wide adoption in K-12 in the US, is now used in Europe and is under evaluation for use in Japan.  IMS is now investigating how to make OneRoster relevant for use in higher education.

During this workshop the IMS staff will describe the OneRoster specification and will explain the differences between the three versions. The process of conformance and certification will be explained and demonstrated. Attendees at the workshop will:

• Learn how the OneRoster specification can be used within various learning systems 
• Learn how to use the OneRoster conformance test systems to become certified
• Learn how your development team can make best use of the OneRoster specification and released artefacts
• Learn how to make best use of, and reference to, the OneRoster specification when writing Request for Proposals