# Introduction

About the xAPI Profile Server User Guide

This document provides the reader walkthroughs for every feature of the xAPI Profile Server. In addition to a powerful set of authoring and editing tools for xAPI Profiles, the xAPI Profile Server hosts the .JSON-ld xAPI Profiles and provides validation services for xAPI Profiles.

The xAPI Profile Server Library

With the release of the xAPI Profile Server, a number of documents in the xAPI Profile Server Library will be helpful in different ways.

  • This document, the xAPI Profile Server User Guide, provides a comprehensive set of step-by-step walkthroughs detailing every feature of the xAPI Profile Server.
  • The xAPI Profile Server Administrator Guide provides focused step-by-step walk-throughs for managing an xAPI Profile Server instance.
  • The xAPI Profile Server Authoring Guide documents initial recommended practices in using the xAPI Profile Server to develop xAPI Profiles.

How to Read This Document

The xAPI Profile Server User Guide is organized by its functional areas: Profiles, following a general workflow to construct an xAPI Profile, and Working Groups through which permissions are managed.

If you are interested in authoring xAPI Profiles with the xAPI Profile Server, when paired with the other resources including the xAPI Profile Server Authoring Guide, this document should provide sufficient support to reduce, if not eliminate, the technical, data and semantic interoperability risks in creating an xAPI Profile.

If you are interested in the management and administration of the xAPI Profile Server, when paired with the xAPI Profile Server Administration Guide, this document completes a comprehensive overview of the complete set of system features, including the management of profiles and accounts, and the analytics available to administrators.