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🔗 The Didask API: automate your workflows by integrating Didask with your business tools
🔗 The Didask API: automate your workflows by integrating Didask with your business tools

Discover the Didask API and how it can help you to automate your workflows.

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Written by Clara Gros
Updated over a year ago
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📢 The API service offered by Didask allows you to securely open platform data, enabling your external systems (LMS, website) to exchange information with Didask. This interconnectivity simplifies processes, saving time and increasing efficiency for your development teams.

1/ What is an API?

An API is like a waiter in a restaurant. It allows you to interact with the kitchen without stepping inside or needing to understand the intricacies of cooking.

  1. The waiter presents you with a menu: This represents what the kitchen can prepare for you.

  2. You place an order: You indicate what you’d like to eat.

  3. The waiter delivers your dish: You receive exactly what you requested.

In this analogy:

  • The menu represents the list of possible actions with the API.

  • Placing an order is what’s known as "consuming an API."

  • The dish the waiter delivers is the API’s response.
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🔎 Why use an API?

For the same reasons you rely on a waiter:

  • It keeps you out of the kitchen, avoiding any mess you might create.

  • The waiter tells you what’s available to order, saving you from guessing in front of the fridge or oven.

🚀 What about the Didask API?

The Didask API allows you to perform several operations within the Didask platform. The “menu” includes the following:

  1. Simplified user access

    Enable Didask users to open the application directly from your LMS with seamless authentication.

  2. Learning analytics integration
    Retrieve learning data from Didask to merge with your LMS, including:

    • User identity

    • Groups

    • Accessible publications

    • Started publications

    • Completed publications

    • Completion percentage

  3. Automate actions in Didask
    Based on data from a third-party system, you can:

    • Create a new user

    • Create a group

    • Add a user to a group

  4. Display real-time data on your website
    For example, the API can display the number of learners who have completed a training session.

🛠 How does it work?

👉 You will need developers to set up the API.

To learn how your system can integrate with Didask, we recommend sharing the following documentation with your technical team: Didask API Documentation

2/ What are connectors?

Now that you understand APIs, let’s dive into connectors.

Imagine you’re dining at a restaurant in India but don’t speak the local language. The waiter doesn’t speak French either. To order your meal, you use a friend to translate. This friend listens to your request, translates it, and communicates it to the waiter. While translating, your friend might adapt the message, for example, by mentioning that you’re foreign and prefer less spicy food..

🔎 Why use a connector?

  • Compatibility: The connector (your friend) bridges language barriers between you and the waiter, ensuring your order is understood. However, if you visit Germany, you’ll need another friend who speaks German (i.e., a different connector).

  1. Adaptation: Connectors can integrate business rules or controls to ensure messages are correctly processed.


​Important note: Connectors exist physically somewhere. In our example, your friend is present with you. Alternatively, the connector could be a kitchen assistant who translates the waiter’s message for the chef. In this case, the connector is “hosted” in the kitchen.

Keywords: API, automation, workflows, connectors

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