Anatomy of a xAPI Statement

Anatomy of a Experience API Statement

We get a lot of questions about how Experience API statements should be structured and used, so our very own Brian Miller has basically been writing a book about the anatomy of a xAPI statement. It includes a lot of what you’ll need to know in order to use xAPI the right way. It’s been a series of blog posts that we’ve actually turned into an e-book, which you can download for free right here.

We’ve broken down the xAPI statement into each of its parts, and included a lot of “best practices” information along the way.

This is a lot of information, so take your time. And yes, we actually do intend to create a downloadable e-book out of this series once it’s complete.

Experience API Statement Deep Dive Series

• Actor/Agent
• Verbs
• Activity
• Object
• Extras/Others
• Context
• Result
• Extensions
• Attachments

The Webinar

This is the live recording of the “Anatomy of a xAPI Statement” that Brian Miller gave on 9/20/13. You can download the slides for this presentation here.

Next steps

Use the resources below to learn more about Statements.

• Statements 101 takes you through the basics of statements that you need to know in order to get going with xAPI.
• Statement Explorer is an interactive example statement that explains the high level structure of the statement.
• xAPI Lab is a tool that supports you to build your a statement and send it to an LRS.
• Statements Deep Dive takes you beyond the basics to help you get the most out of xAPI.