Discovering more about xAPI can be a lengthy and sometimes confusing process. There are plenty of resources out there that step you through each facet of the xAPI Statement. I thought I'd put my spin on a resource in a way that helped me understand the structure.
Below you'll find a statement containing some of the aspects of an xAPI statement. Simply click on any of highlighted area's to find out more information and a link to the spec.
Select a part of the xAPI Statement on the left to find out more
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"id": "6f7fd4eb-e4d6-4bd8-bc98-faae308157bb",
"version": "1.0.0",
"actor": {
"objectType": "Agent",
"name": "Admin User",
"mbox": "mailto:moodle.admin@myurl.com"
},
"verb": {
"id": "http://id.tincanapi.com/verb/viewed",
"display": {
"en": "viewed"
}
},
"context": {
"instructor": {
"name": "Tom Jones",
"mbox": "mailto:tj@example.com"
},
"contextActivities": {
"category": [
{
"objectType": "Activity",
"id": "http://moodle.org",
"definition": {
"type": "http://id.tincanapi.com/activitytype/source",
"name": {
"en": "Moodle"
},
"description": {
"en": "Moodle is a open source learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments."
}
}
},
],
"grouping": [
{
"objectType": "Activity",
"id": "http://localhost/moodle30",
"definition": {
"type": "http://id.tincanapi.com/activitytype/site",
"name": {
"en": "Training Moodle"
},
"description": {
"en": " Training Moodle"
},
"extensions": {
"http://lrs.learninglocker.net/define/extensions/moodle_course": {
"id": "1",
"category": "0",
"sortorder": "1",
"fullname": " Training Moodle",
"shortname": " Training Moodle",
"idnumber": "",
"summary": "",
"summaryformat": "0",
"format": "site",
"showgrades": "1",
"newsitems": "3",
"startdate": "0",
"marker": "0",
"maxbytes": "0",
"legacyfiles": "0",
"showreports": "0",
"visible": "1",
"visibleold": "1",
"groupmode": "0",
"groupmodeforce": "0",
"defaultgroupingid": "0",
"lang": "",
"calendartype": "",
"theme": "",
"timecreated": "1494302883",
"timemodified": "1505435202",
"requested": "0",
"enablecompletion": "0",
"completionnotify": "0",
"cacherev": "1505435202",
"type": "site",
"url": "http://localhost/moodle30"
}
}
}
}
]
},
"platform": "Moodle",
"language": "en",
"extensions": {
"http://lrs.learninglocker.net/define/extensions/moodle_logstore_standard_log": {
"eventname": "\\core\\event\\course_viewed",
"component": "core",
"action": "viewed",
"target": "course",
"objecttable": null,
"objectid": null,
"crud": "r",
"edulevel": 2,
"contextid": 96,
"contextlevel": 50,
"contextinstanceid": "5",
"userid": "2",
"courseid": "5",
"relateduserid": null,
"anonymous": 0,
"other": "N;",
"timecreated": 1507176709,
"origin": "web",
"ip": "127.0.0.1",
"realuserid": null
},
"http://lrs.learninglocker.net/define/extensions/info": {
"https://moodle.org/": "3.0.10 (Build: 20170508)"
}
}
},
"timestamp": "2017-10-05T14:11:49+10:00",
"object": {
"objectType": "Activity",
"id": "http://128.207.74.40/moodle30/course/view.php?id=5",
"definition": {
"type": "http://lrs.learninglocker.net/define/type/moodle/course",
"name": {
"en": "Introduction to VoIP"
},.
"description": {
"en": "A Moodle course"
},
"extensions": {
"http://lrs.learninglocker.net/define/extensions/moodle_course": {
"id": "5",
"category": "2",
"sortorder": "20001",
"fullname": "Introduction to VoIP",
"shortname": "VoIP Intro",
"idnumber": "",
"summary": "",
"summaryformat": "1",
"format": "topics",
"showgrades": "1",
"newsitems": "5",
"startdate": "1507212000",
"marker": "0",
"maxbytes": "0",
"legacyfiles": "0",
"showreports": "0",
"visible": "1",
"visibleold": "1",
"groupmode": "0",
"groupmodeforce": "0",
"defaultgroupingid": "0",
"lang": "",
"calendartype": "",
"theme": "",
"timecreated": "1507175167",
"timemodified": "1507176116",
"requested": "0",
"enablecompletion": "1",
"completionnotify": "0",
"cacherev": "1507176680",
"type": "course",
"url": "http://localhost/moodle30/course/view.php?id=5"
},
"attachments": [
{
"usageType": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/attachments/signature",
"display": { "en-US": "Signature" },
"description": { "en-US": "A test signature" },
"contentType": "application/octet-stream",
"length": 4235,
"sha2": "672fa5fa658017f1b72d65036f13379c6ab05d4ab3b6664908d8acf0b6a0c634"
}
}
}
},
"authority": {
"objectType": "Agent",
"name": "Moodle User",
"mbox": "mailto:hello@learninglocker.net"
},
"stored": "2017-10-05T04:11:49.511500+00:00",
"id": "aed4dbea-8b20-495f-9160-a23a4f4698f3"
}