Is LDAP integration in the current Open edX version?

[Christian W.]

Hello,

we have an Open edX installation and a management tool, which manages the students, professors, lectures, and so on. To connect them both we plan to use the Shibboleth integration.

Our goal is to create a lecture/course inside our own management tool and afterwards create a course in Open edX. Then students should be added too.

So far I have seen the possibilities to use CVS invitations but an automated way would be better. One of my colleagues said an LDAP integration would be great.

1. Is there a LDAP integration? If so, will it help to achieve our goals in integrating?
2. I've read about LTI. Can this be used to add new courses to Open edX “from the outside” (from our tool)? Also add students to the course?

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards

Christian

[Sergiy Movchan]

when our customers come with such a request, i always suggest to create some sort of business (enrolment) rules engine within your HRM/management tool and use  enrolment API to assign students to courses based on their roles.

LDAP can be used as SSO, but that's it - no groups support, etc. The best you can do is distinguishing staff/students.

as for the LTI - if i got you correctly, then no - you can't add new courses to Open edX, but you can add a module to the course (in Studio) which will render some 3rd party content served via LTI. And no, you can't "enroll" students to a course via LTI.

[Christian W.]

Okay. But is there any API which allows me to create courses from "outside"? The REST API is only for getting information but not the post something. Could LTI work for that or is there any other API that could be used?