Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)

Presentation to SMUG4th October 2012, Forth Valley College

Simon Booth (University of Stirling),Stephen Vickers (Consultant)

What are they saying about LTI?LTI – London Taxis International

• JISC Funded ceLTIc I/II• Original project developed LTI

connectors/LTI support class• Current project has complementary

parts– Developers (Me, Stephen)– Sharing (WebPA, 12 Partners)

• Funded (May 2012 – April 2013)

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ceLTIc projects

• Introduction• What is LTI• LTI support• Moodle & LTI• Using LTI in Moodle• Tools• Demonstration• Benefits• Questions

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Outline

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What is LTI

VLE/LMS

Gradebook

Announcements

Discussion board

Blog

Blog(with LTI)

• Supported by all major VLEs, including:– Moodle– Blackboard– Desire2Learn– Sakai– WebCT– Canvas– …

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LTI Support

• LTI is a standard way to securely and seamlessly integrate an external learning application with a VLE

• A user logged into Moodle can connect to, say, an external wiki or blog and be automatically authorised

• The blog/wiki and account can automatically be provisioned

• There is a plugin for Moodle 1.9+: basiclti4moodle

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Moodle 2.2 supports LTI v1.1

• LTI is simple to use, it is just an activity in a course. As a teacher, turn on editing and add an “External Tool”

• Three items are required– Launch URL– Consumer key– Consumer secretThe above are supplied by the learning tool provider

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How does this work?

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Add External Tool

• LTI can send user’s role (e.g. student or teacher) and so remote tool can use this information, e.g. different privileges in WordPress

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Privacy

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Some LTI enabled Tools

• Moodle 2.2 & Wordpress• Noteflight Video (uses

basiclti4moodle)http://videos.noteflight.com/MoodleBasicLTI.mov

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Demonstration

• Benefits for learners and teachers:– seamless integration of VLE and

external products– empowerment of teachers

• Benefit for administrators and developers:– administrative efficiencies– single integration will support any VLE

• Scale Benefits

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Benefits

• Basic LTI = LTI v1.0 (language change)

• LTI v1.1 = LTI v1.0 plus outcomes• Unofficial extensions

– Memberships/groups– Setting

• Future– Multiple grades– Embed links

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LTI v1.1

• ceLTIc:developers Workshop(18th October, supported by RSC Scotland)

• Contact s.p.booth@stir.ac.uk• LTI Briefing Paper

http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/LTI-Briefing-Paper.pdf

• Project web sitehttp://www.celtic-project.org

• IMShttp://developers.imsglobal.org/15

Questions?