Managing memberships

URL to service

https://enterprise.itslearning.com/WCFServiceLibrary/MembershipManagementServiceSync.svc

This service contains the following functions:

  • createMembership

  • createMemberships

  • updateMembership

  • updateMemberships

  • deleteMembership

  • deleteMemberships

  • replaceMembership

  • replaceMemberships

  • changeMembershipIdentifier

  • changeMembershipsIdentifier

  • readMembership

  • readMemberships

  • readMembershipsForPerson

  • readMembershipsForGroup


WSDL file for MembershipManagement
https://enterprise.itslearning.com/WCFServiceLibrary/MembershipManagementServiceSync.svc?wsdl


IMS Enterprise Service online documentation
The function descriptions, original WSDL files, request/response examples can be found here:
http://www.imsglobal.org/es/index.html
http://www.imsglobal.org/es/esv1p0/imsmembership_bindv1p0.html
http://www.imsglobal.org/es/esv1p0/imsmembership_infov1p0.html

The membership object

IMS ES Field

Mandatory

Itslearning field

Comment

SourcedId/Identifier

X

Person_Hierarchy.SyncPersonHierarchyId

SyncID

groupSourcedId/Identifier

X

Group.SyncLocationId

memberSourcedId/Identifier

X

Person.SyncLocatinId

Role

X

PersonProfile

Role in hierarchy. See transformation table below

Extensions

ExtensionField

Allows you to mark an organisation as home organisation.

Extensions

The below example describes the usage of extensions for memberships to set "HomeOrganisation" for a group of users.

Please see Marking an organisation as a user's "home organisation" for further details. 

   	  99998888      	  01	                       HomeOrganisation            bool            1

Transformation of IMS ES RoleTypes into itslearning hierarchy roles

The following transformation table is used to convert IMS ES <role> type into Itslearning role in hierarchy.

We recommend you use only those roles highlighted in either numeric or literal form.

IMS ES
RoleType

IMS ES
Numeric value

itslearning
Role in hierarchy

Learner

01

Student

Instructor

02

Teacher

ContentDeveloper

03

Guest

Member

04

Guest

Manager

05

Guest

Mentor

06

¹

Administrator

07

Administrator

TeachingAssistant

08

Guest

¹ See section Mentor role below

Mentor role in itslearning

Having a Mentor role in a hierarchy is not a normal membership in a hierarchy, but a functionality added on top of that.This means that a user can have membership to a hierarchy (with e.g. role = Teacher), but in addition have a Mentor role in the same hierarchy.

How to give a user Mentor role with IMS ES

To give a user Mentor role in a hierarchy is done the same way as adding a membership to a user, see CreateMembership request example:

CreateMembership request to give 'UserX' Mentor role in hierarchy 'SchoolA'
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ims="http://www.imsglobal.org/services/common/imsMessBindSchema_v1p0" xmlns:ims1="http://www.imsglobal.org/services/mms/xsd/imsMemberManMessSchema_v1p0" xmlns:ims2="http://www.imsglobal.org/services/common/imsCommonSchema_v1p0" xmlns:ims3="http://www.imsglobal.org/services/mms/xsd/imsMemberManDataSchema_v1p0">
<soapenv:Header>
<ims:syncRequestHeaderInfo>
<ims:messageIdentifier>1</ims:messageIdentifier>
</ims:syncRequestHeaderInfo>
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<ims1:createMembershipRequest>
<ims1:sourcedId>
<ims2:identifier>SchoolA_UserX</ims2:identifier>
</ims1:sourcedId>
<ims1:membership>
<ims3:groupSourcedId>
<ims2:identifier>SchoolA</ims2:identifier>
</ims3:groupSourcedId>
<ims3:member>
<ims3:memberSourcedId>
<ims2:identifier>UserX</ims2:identifier>
</ims3:memberSourcedId>
<ims3:role>
<ims3:roleType>Mentor</ims3:roleType>
</ims3:role>
</ims3:member>
</ims1:membership>
</ims1:createMembershipRequest>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

This request will only give UserX Mentor role in hierarchy SchoolA. It will not give UserX any membership to hierarchy SchoolA.

With IMS ES, it is possible to give a user Mentor role in a hierarchy, even if the user does not have a membership to the same hierarchy.

How to see a user's role in itslearning

As an administrator, you can see a user's memberships and role in hierarchies if you go to Admin - User and Access rights - choose Edit for a user and then select the Hierarchy tab:

Note: Here you will not see a user's Mentor role

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As an administrator, you can see a user's Mentor role if you go to Admin - Supervisor:

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As a user, if you have a Mentor role in a hierarchy, you will have a new tab named Mentor:

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You cannot change a user's Mentor role in hiearchhy to be a normal membership in the same hierarchy.

Example:

  • User is Mentor in School A.

  • User should not longer be Mentor in School A

  • User should be teacher in School A


You will have to - first remove the user's Mentor role in School A - then add the user's membership to School A