Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: LAMS Integration with .LRN ready for testing

5: Re: LAMS Integration with .LRN ready for testing (response to 1)

Posted by Al-Faisal El-Dajani on 12/02/05 07:56 AM

We have been demoing the LAMS integration in Jordan and people were impressed with LAMS per se, so expect to see some users from the middle east (at least for LAMS).

Please put the code not in contrib, but release it in packages in the 5.2 tree (we are nearing the .LRN 2.2 release, so this would be excellent). We will set the maturity level accordingly.

Now, as for the plans for an integration, I was wondering if we could use .LRN Forums and Assessments in addition / as an alternative to existing LAMS functionality. So the LAMS player would allow you e.g. to specify the URL of the assessment and direct you there and set the return_url correctly so you go back into LAMS once you are done. Same with forums et al.

Which reminds me that we should think about enabling return_urls for all these packages :).

8: Re: Re: LAMS Integration with .LRN ready for testing (response to 5)

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione on 12/03/05 08:27 AM

Hi Malte,

Great to see news from the middle east.

About a month or so ago, James ran a LAMS presentation in Jordan for the Intaj fellows. Also last month at the e-Merging e-Learning Conference in the UAE, LAMS was also introduced. I'll get you the presentations as soon as I get a hold of them, if you think they might be handy for you.

Regarding the integration, what we have done now is basically a first attempt. However, I would like to take this to a much deeper level where we can create LAMS sequences using the .LRN tools directly (that means, been able to see the .LRN tools as the drag and drop tools you see in LAMS Authoring). That will be really nice.

For LAMS 1.1, the next version, we have abstracted the way that LAMS activities talk to the LAMS progress engine, defining a new tools API/Contract. Therefore, any tool written in any language -following that API- can be integrated seamlesly into LAMS Authoring. That will be really nice.

Ernie