An xAPI adopter asks: “What happens when you have a Verb in mind, but can’t find it in the xAPI Registry or other Communities of Practice (CoP)? However, there are, other verbs already defined that mean approximately the same thing. Still, you want to use…
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Recently someone came to us looking for recommendations on how to get more detailed reporting from an assessment published as cmi5 from their authoring tool. They are capturing the score and pass/fail status of the overall assessment in the main AU, but are also trying…
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There has been a recent uptick in the number of questions received by our support group involving cmi5 implementations, specifically related to creating cmi5 content or activities. While these questions are a great indicator that adoption of cmi5 is on the rise, they also gives…
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Recently, we received an inquiry from someone who was trying to make sense of xAPI. They had a few specific questions that were interesting, so we thought it made sense to share the answers here. Is xAPI installed on a platform? When it comes to…
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What's the difference between profile recipes and xAPI profiles? Well, they essentially serve the same purpose. The difference primarily lies in the timeline. Profile Recipes A "profile recipe" was an early attempt to make it possible for members of the xAPI community to publicly share…
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We’ve had some great contributions from the community over the last three months, and thrown in a little of our own time to push a bunch of our open source libraries and tools forward. Here’s a summary: TinCanJava - 0.7.0 Hot off the press is…
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The xAPI reporting bookmarklet has been around a long time, at least in terms of a now over one year old specification’s life. It was originally just a prototype, a simple way to show a pre-configured Agent could send a Statement about a readily available…
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// Last week we introduced the concept of a Recipe, a defined way to capture the same experience using the same set of statements across Activity Providers. This post will delve a bit further into how we got to the concept and the technical…
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Today we had a discussion centered around the creation of statements corresponding to the actions that a client likes to capture for a live event. One of the actions they consider important is “raising a hand”. This is also an action that is common in…
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