xAPI Out of the Box

Learn more about to to track xAPI without needing to write code! What is out of the box in common authoring tools

Brent and Chris bring on one of the most influential stewards of the xAPI standard, Aaron Silvers. He holds all the scars of battles won of taking the learning analytics need from idea to Government standard.

During this episode, the three take a trip down memory lane and talk about WHY xAPI needed to be born, and how a small but dedicated band of OG's made that happen. Aaron is now working with analytics and big data in a BIG way. So we're certain to cover that topic as well. Join us for a...

Why xAPI is such a game changer and you don't need to be a programmer to love and appreciate it. To be clear I'm also not talking about copying and pasting from some posts on how to do xAPI either!

During this episode of IDIODC the gang chats about the basics of what xAPI is, how it works and a few different tips and tricks to get xAPI-first-timers started.

Megan Torrance's company Torrance Learning facilitates the ongoing xAPI Learning Cohort, originally started by ADLNet. Held twice a year and with more than 500 participants, the Cohort is a great way to learn about xAPI from your L&D peers, whether you just lurk and follow or actively get involved in a hands-on project.

In this episode, Megan joined Chris to give us an overview of just what the xAPI cohort is and how it works.

It's a tremendous service that the Torrance team provides for fr...

So you're ready to start creating your own custom statements... or are you?

Brent and Chris chat with returning guest and friend, Megan Torrance. This is more than just an introduction to xAPI, this is a conversation about real world training and development issues.

Introduction xAPI Foundations course by Anthony Altieri

Scored assessments - Is it possible to configure an assessment to send an xAPI answered verb with results for each question?

A great general resource about xAPI in general.

xAPI Statement Validator from YetAnalytics. Put in your JSON to validate your statement.

ADL Git Hub - LRS Conformance test and more!

A useful resource to learn more about xAPI

For all the real details, take a look at the actual xAPI specs

This was an Ignite presentation at Ifest 2019.

xAPI Australia. A great resource whether you are down under or not!

If you are familiar with SCORM, you know that bookmarking information is stored in CMI.Sessions information as a blob of data the course sends and recalls so it can properly bookmark and remember elements of what happened in the course the last time a learner took it.

xAPI Profiles Viewer. This site looks to the xAPI profiles and brings the info into a bit easier viewer.

ADL xAPI Profile Server to search, create and publish xAPI profiles.

While dominKnow | ONE sends a variety of statements automatically, you can also send custom xAPI statements using actions. Learn how to create an xAPI action and pick the custom verb, type and even send variable data along with your statement details.

Learn how to create multiple xAPI endpoints that you can use when publishing your xAPI packages.

Learn how to send an end of module score using master pages and the Send xAPI action.

With publishing profiles you can turn on or off many of the automatic xAPI statements that your dominKnow project sends when creating an xAPI project.