CUMULATE protocol

URLs of web-services

These are the URLs of the web-services that implement components of the ADAPT² architecture and protocols.

User Activity report receiver - this service listens to applications that report user activity

http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/um

Report Manager - service that answers queries about users' progress with learning objects and mastery of concepts

http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ReportManager

Parameter Naming Conventions

The following parameter names (and their possible values) should be used in communication between all applications using ADAPT² protocols.

• usr – user, user login
• sid – session id
• app – application, activity server

  • 1

    – Unknown application
  • 2 – QuizPACK
  • 3 – WebEx
  • 4 – WADEIn
  • 5 – KnowledgeSea
  • 6 – AnnotatEd
  • 7 – venn
  • 8 – KnowledgeTree
  • 9 – NavEx
  • 10 – CourseAgent
  • 11 – cWADEIn II
  • 12 – VIBE
  • 13 – VirtPresenter
  • 14 – Problets
  • 15 – VarScope
  • 16 – BooleanTool
  • 17 – Jeliot
  • 18 – free slot
  • 19 – free slot
  • 20 – QuizQUIDE
  • 21 – jWADEIn II
  • 22 – free slot
  • 23 – SQL KnoT
  • 24 – ADAPT² PService
• act – learning action, learning object – minimally invokable piece of learning object (quiz, example etc.)
• sub – sub-action, step of learning action, fragment of learning object – minimal trackable piece of learning object (question of quiz, line of example etc.)
• grp – group name; suggested naming convention for group name is {academic year, semester, group identified or name within semester}, e.g. 200621 – Spring 2006, group 1
• res – result of the interaction – any decimal value e.g. -1, 0, 0.4, 0.7, 1
• svc – service parameter – any character string that can be used to store system state, should not contain ? (question mark), & (ampersand), : (colon), and / (backward slash); however all those symbols can be encoded using Java URLEncoder class that maps them to %XX; service parameter
• lev – Bloom's level; knowledge (KnowledgeSea)

comprehension (WebEx/NavEx, WADEIn in exploration mode) application (QuizPACK/QuizGuide, WADEIn in evaluation mode) comma separated combinations of all of the above without spaces (e.g. knowledge,comprehension)

• prc – precision
• ums – user modeling server URL for reporting user activity to
• dom – learning domain (e.g. C programming), will define the concepts ontology
• con - concept - knowledge component of a learning domain
• scp – scope of activities (used for multiple groupings of activities).

It is advised to use these parameters and values even internally.