{"id":5671,"date":"2019-02-11T22:55:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T02:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2019-02-11T22:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T02:55:36","slug":"abstract-building-lti-advantage-tools-for-blackboard-using-the-tsugi-application-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2019\/02\/abstract-building-lti-advantage-tools-for-blackboard-using-the-tsugi-application-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract &#8211; Building LTI Advantage Tools for Blackboard using the Tsugi Application Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">This presentation will introduce users to the free and open source Learning Application development environment available at www.tsugi.org. Blackboard supports the IMS Advantage suite of specifications including LTI 1.3.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Tsugi to allow external tools to be easily integrated into Blackboard using either LTI 1.1 or LTI 1.3 to increase the richness and diversity of the course experience. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>External tools can provide functionality not present in Learn like a social grading system, or a YouTube viewer with analytics. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>External tools can also build very rich auto-graders that make online classes bother more interesting and more effective.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Imagine if you could easily develop an interactive system like Pearson\u2019s MyMathLab for *your* course and field.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Tsugi provides a set of libraries that allow you to write learning applications without any need to read an LMS integration standards document.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Tsugi\u2019s run-time environment takes care of complying with the necessary standards to make plugging Tsugi tools into Learn, edX, Coursera, or any other LMS.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Tsugi also provides a hosting environment that is as easy to deploy as WordPress and allows institutions to host tools and provide an \u201cApp Store\u201d of available tools to their users.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There is also a free cloud-based Tsugi App Store that provides scalable hosting for open source Tsugi applications at www.tsugicloud.org.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is easy to learn to write Tsugi applications using the online materials at www.tsugi.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This presentation will introduce users to the free and open source Learning Application development environment available at www.tsugi.org. Blackboard supports the IMS Advantage suite of specifications including LTI 1.3.\u00a0 Tsugi to allow external tools to be easily integrated into Blackboard using either LTI 1.1 or LTI 1.3 to increase the richness and diversity of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5672,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}