We have had success getting our partner manager to turn the "request e-mail" and "request username" settings on, so *if you have good security* on the other side of your LTI tool, that might be a good solution for you.
On Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 8:24:54 PM UTC-4, Robert M wrote: > > Wish I could use a better xBlock, but we are looking to deploy to edx.org. > now that I think of it, I guess I can add a form to my LTI tool for user to > send us feedback if there are problems. > > On May 21, 2017 8:11 PM, "Nate Aune" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> The LTI consumer XBlock that ships with Open edX excludes many common LTI >> parameters. Apparently, this was done for student privacy reasons, but if >> you have a need for Open edX to send additional parameters and implement >> more of the LTI spec, there is an alternative LTI consumer XBlock that >> we've been using that works pretty well. A developer at Extension Engine >> built it and you can find it on Github here: >> https://github.com/hrvojevu/xblock-lti-consumer/ >> >> I'd love to see if these fixes can get incorporated back into the LTI >> consumer XBlock that ships with Open edX, but maybe make a "student >> privacy" conditional, so if you *don't* want to send all the attributes >> about the user to a 3rd party LTI provider, you could enable this limited >> set of attributes. >> >> Nate >> >> On Monday, May 22, 2017 at 1:26:14 AM UTC+2, Robert M wrote: >>> >>> then again, I just read edx LTI documents again and looks like I need to >>> ask the " edX partner manager" for this. Please disregard this question. >>> >>> On Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 7:21:51 PM UTC-4, Robert M wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am using LTI to lanuch a tool from edx. >>>> >>>> LTI is supposed to send the user's email address, but all i get off >>>> "edx edge" is "user_id". >>>> >>>> "user_id" works fine for uniquely identifying the user, but if the user >>>> has a problem and I need to reset his/her data, then I have no way to >>>> determine which user he/she is. >>>> >>>> Is there anyway to get the user's email address? Or for the user to >>>> figure out what his/her anonymous user_id is? >>>> >>>> >>>> Robert >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/57f5d55d-447d-49a2-9e0f-bdf687a49353%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/57f5d55d-447d-49a2-9e0f-bdf687a49353%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/47c2537d-0eac-4974-94ce-b1f807c2bc53%40googlegroups.com.
