avkoval/pylti

PyLTI implementation

PyLTI - LTI done right

PyLTI:	Python implementation of LTI
Author:	MIT Office of Digital Learning
Homepage:	http://odl.mit.edu
License:	BSD

PyLTI is a Python implementation of the LTI specification [1]. It supports LTI 1.1.1 and LTI 2.0. While it was written with edX [2] as its LTI consumer, it is a complete implementation of the LTI specification and can be used with any learning management system that supports LTI.

A feature of PyLTI is the way it is used in the creation of an LTI tool. PyLTI is written as a library that exposes an API. This separation of concerns enables a developer to focus on the business logic of their tool and support of their framework of choice.

To demonstrate this usage, there are also a collection of example LTI tools written to support different Python web frameworks.

Framework	Example
Flask	mit_lti_flask_sample A skeleton example for the Flask framework that consumes the PyLTI library

Dependencies:

• Python 2.7+ or Python 3.4+
• oauth2 1.9.0+
• httplib2 0.9+
• six 1.10.0+

Development dependencies:

• Flask 0.10.1
• httpretty 0.8.3
• oauthlib 0.6.3
• pyflakes 1.2.3
• pytest 2.9.2
• pytest-cache 1.0
• pytest-cov 2.3.0
• pytest-flakes 1.0.1
• pytest-pep8 1.0.6
• sphinx 1.2.3

Documentation is available on readthedocs.

Licensing

PyLTI is licensed under the BSD license, version January 9, 2008. See license.rst for the full text of the license.

Footnotes

[1]	The Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) specification is an initiative of IMS. Their site http://developers.imsglobal.org/ contains a description of LTI as well as the current LTI specification.

[2]	EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from the world’s best universities. Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, UTx and many other universities. EdX is a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT. code.edx.org