Tsugi is a free and open source framework that makes developing applications to for integration into Brightspace using standards like LTI 1.1, LTI 1.3, ContentItem, DeepLinking and LTI Advantage.  Tsugi allows developers to invest effort in improving learning instead of integration details.

This presentation will introduce users to the free and open source Learning Application development environment available at www.tsugi.org. Brightspace supports the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability to allow external tools to be easily integrated into Brightspace and used to increase the richness and diversity of the course experience.   External tools can provide functionality not present in Brightspace like a course map tool, or social grading system, a prompted writing tool, or a YouTube viewer with Caliper analytics.   External tools can also be rich auto-graders that make online classes both more interesting and more effective.  Imagine if you could easily develop an interactive system like Pearson’s MyMathLab for *your* course and topic.  Tsugi provides a set of libraries that allow you to write learning applications without any need to read an LMS integration specification.  Tsugi’s run-time environment takes care of complying with the necessary standards to make plugging Tsugi tools into Brightspace, or any other LMS.  Building tools using Tsugi will will allow you to simultaneously support LTI 1.1, 2.0 and LTI 1.3 with no code changes to your applications.  Tsugi also takes care of supporting IMS Content Item, Deep Linking, and the new services available in LTI Advantage for your application.  Tsugi also provides a scalable hosting environment that is as easy to deploy as WordPress and allows institutions to host tools and provide an “App Store” of available tools to their users.  There is also a free cloud-based Tsugi App Store that provides scalable hosting for open source Tsugi applications at www.tsugicloud.org.  It is easy to learn to write Tsugi applications using the online materials at www.tsugi.org.

Here are the logistics of the Face-To-Face Coursera office hours in Bengaluru, India.

We will meet Wednesday December 12, 7:00-8:30PM at the Hotel Shangri-La, Bengaluru in the Krishna Room on the second floor of the hotel.

Shangri-La Hotel, Bengaluru
No 56-6B Palace Road
Bengaluru 560052 India

http://www.shangri-la.com/bengaluru/shangrila/

http://www.shangri-la.com/uploadedFiles/SLBL_Hotel-Fact-Sheet_EN.pdf

There is no charge for this event.

This event will be a little better organized than my previous office hours.   The hotel is providing snacks and drinks and Shroff Publishing has provided a number of copies of the Python for Everybody textbook that they print and sell in India:

https://www.shroffpublishers.com/books/9789352136278/

I will also have some Coursera stickers and pens to hand out :)  It should be fun.  I am looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

I am still working on arrangements for office hours in Mumbai in a few days – I will send a note about them as soon as I can.

Here is a map view of all my (70) office hour videos since 2012 with my most recent office hours video in the center of the map. You can click on the pins to see the videos.

http://www.dr-chuck.com/office/

I hope to see you at this or a future office hours.