Sending xAPI Statements with the xAPI Bookmarklet

Another way to get your feet wet with sending xAPI statements is with the xAPI Bookmarklet. The xAPI Bookmarklet is a little application run from the Browser that will take a web page that you read and send that experience to a Learning Record Store (LRS) of your choosing.

I used the Google Chrome browser and the ADL LRS for this example. You can use whatever LRS you like but have the access credentials at the ready for this exercise. You may go here to register for credentials for the ADL LRS.

Next, go to the xAPI Bookmarklet web page.

Scroll down until you see the Bookmarklet Generator form.

Complete the form. In my example I used credentials for the ADL LRS.

At the bottom of the form, click Generate Bookmarklet. This produces a link on the page called "Tin Can Reporter."

Drag this link up to your Bookmark bar. It will add it as a button to your bookmark bar. As an alternative, if you have bookmark folders and wish to place the link in there, drag the link over a folder name and it will be placed inside the desired folder.

Now navigate to a web page that you wish to capture. For my example, I read an article entitled "Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?" by Christopher Myers. After reading the web page click the Tin Can Reporter button. The Tin Can Reporter panel will pop up on the right side of your screen.

Select a Verb and a Rating and then click Send Statement.

Next switch to your LRS Statement viewer. In my case I switched to the ADL LRS statement viewer.

You should see your experience record located there.

As you can see when you clicked the xAPI Bookmarklet it generated an xAPI Statement and sent it to the LRS. This is a great way to self-report what you've experienced and yet another way to see the flow of xAPI statements to an LRS.