Integrating Desktop or mobile application with LMS using LTI 1.3

[Andrew at MidWest Coast Media]

I would be excited to help test this! The higher ed school I work with uses Canvas by Instructure, a large open-source LMS. You can find documentation at https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki

—Andrew Bell 

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> Thanks for the responses.  I am still actively working on this.  
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> I have hired a summer intern. Molly,  to work on this.  She has been getting up to speed on LiveCode and LTI 1.3 and now she is turning her attention to working on a proof of concept stack to connect with an LMS system and send commands and receive responses and process them.  
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> Indeed we have found that LTI 1.3 is supported by many LMS?s to varying degrees and some still just support LTI 1.1 currently. (There is a LTI 2.0 but that is a deprecated standard. http://www.imsglobal.org/lti-security-announcement-and-deprecation-schedule)  The LMSs we have looked at also have their own APIs which seem to have features beyond what the LTI feature set is but still looking at this. 
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> I am not at the point yet where I can open source it and I am not really sure how to go about that. (Don?t know how I would sell it either but probably not much of a market for it.)  I have my main app on GIT using Monte?s lcVCS but if I did want to go open source with this library I want to to do something simpler like a script only stack library and maybe do a Demo app based on Trevor?s Levure App Framework https://livecode.com/products/livecode-platform/levure/ to make it easier to use git.   Does this sound like a good approach?
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> We are also looking for a way to access a sandbox with one of the LMS?s to test the proof of concept app against.  If anyone has info on that that would be appreciated.
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> Martin