Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: LAMS2 and .LRN integration (beta) released!

Ernie, great work!

What would be interesting is to see the edition capabilities of LAMS integrated to the LMS (for instance .LRN), instead of replicating some LMS capabilities inside LAMS. Any plans on this?
At this points seems that LAMS is quite strong as course builder but is not fully integrated with the LMS.

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Posted by Ernie Ghiglione on
Hi Roc,

What would be interesting is to see the edition capabilities of LAMS integrated to the LMS (for instance
.LRN), instead of replicating some LMS capabilities inside LAMS. Any plans on this?

Yes and no.

On the yes part, we have the concept of Tool Adapters that would allow LMS tools to be added to LAMS as if they would be native LAMS tools/activities. So you would be able to drag-and-drop them and create sequences just like you do normally in the LAMS Authoring environment.

These Tool Adapters work as a, well, an adapter 😉 between the external tool and LAMS Core following the LAMS Tool's Contract*, which is basically the protocol (in a way) that LAMS tools 'talk' to the core.

Now the no bit, it's because we haven't been able to work on these adapters. At all yet.

The adapters would require work in both ends... a tool wrapper in .LRN side and a bunch of REST like interfaces on the LAMS end.

I'll keep you updated with these in the next few months.

Also, if you need this today, there's an easy hack where you can use the LAMS' Shared Resources tool and add the URL for your .LRN activity to it. So when the students hit the LAMS Shared Resources tool, the .LRN URL gets displayed directly. But again, this is not quite the drag-and-drop experience.

Hope that helps

Thanks,

Ernie

* Here's a presentation on how the LAMS Tool Contract works.

Thanks for the answer Ernie. Looking forward to see this working, do you have a timeframe to have at least the LAMS side working?
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Posted by Ernie Ghiglione on
do you have a timeframe to have at least the LAMS side
working?

I'm hoping will see some of this in the next four months. If things go according to plan.

It will happen, we just need to fit lots of other priorities as well 😊

Interesting to see your priorities. I see that you are doing progress, and advancing through the time. Also the website is quite well organized and easy to find answers to the visitors needs (http://www.lamsinternational.com/). Very market / customer oriented.