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Adding an LTI Launch Page

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  2. Use Case Information
  3. How It Works
  4. Configuration of LTI Launch Page
  5. Additional Information
  6. How LTI Differs from SCORM
  7. FAQs

 

Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) allows courseware and learning tools from third party applications to be launched within your Thought Industries platform.

Use Case Information

Think of LTI compatible files as "plug and play" types of content rather than a specific kind of standalone content type, usually learning interactions.  Examples of LTI files tends to be a section or individual assessment of an existing course you have built.

Note

If you have any LTI compatible files in any external system, Thought Industries can connect them through our LTI page type using any one of the following supportive LTI versions:

  • 1.0
  • 1.1
  • 1.2

How LTI Launch Page Works

LTI allows you to embed another learning application (that is LTI compatible) into Thought Industries and can be added as part of your course. Here's how:

  1. Thought Industries will pass over certain learner information when a LTI content page is being used.
    • First/last name 
    • Email
    • Internal ID
    • Profile URL image (if available)
    • Course title
    • Platform info
  2. LTI app displays interaction in an iframe on Thought Industries
    • SSO needs to be involved for secure handoff 
  3. After learner completes interaction in Thought Industries, LTI app sends back the grade (decimal 0-100%).  
    • This is optional to send back. 

Note

  • Thought Industries cannot receive outcomes (pass/ fail status) via LTI.
  • LTI page type cannot be used as completion criteria in your course.

How to Set Up an LTI Launch Page Type

You can easily embed your content within a course following the below steps:

  1. From your homepage, select Courses > All Courses.
  2. Click the Content Title for to the course you want to alter.
  3. Within the course outline, go to the lesson where you'd like to add an LTI Launch page. 

  4. Click the plus sign in your course outline > hover over the Add Page icon and click.
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  5. Choose the LTI Launch page type.
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  6. Add a page title.
  7. Click Save.
  8. Fill in the LTI Tool URL, Consumer Key, and Secret Key.
    • This information can be gathered from the LTI provider. Note the secret key is stored securely and will not be displayed after being entered.
  9. Add a height as this is required.
    • The value entered here depends on the height of the content being embedded. If you're not sure, we suggest starting with 720 and adjusting from there.
  10. Adjust the width as necessary to fit in the Thought Industries learner view.
    • If not filled in, the width will default to 100%. We recommend leaving width blank for mobile responsiveness.
  11. Click Save.
  12. You also have these options under Advanced Settings:
    • Unlocking for editing by children? - This offers Panorama roles, who have the permission, to edit this page in your course.
    • Indentation Level -

      The Indentation Level is behind a feature flag.

      This allows for the syllabus in the course menu to be indented. When enabled, you can nest pages under each other.

    • # of seconds required for completion -  Number of seconds required to mark this page as complete. If set, the learner must remain on the page (without refreshing or going to another page) for the number of seconds specified in order to be marked complete.
    • Audio Narration File - Although it is not system functionality to record audio in the platform, you can upload audio files.
  13. Click Save.
    Admin View of Configuration
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Additional Information

01

Outcomes:

Outcomes are used to send learner performance back to Thought Industries. We support LTI Basic Outcomes only, which is generally a score, 0-1, e.g. 0.5 would be 50%. We do not support the outcomes extension, nor LTI Outcomes2.

02

LTI Content Extensions:

Content Extensions are used by some LTI providers to deliver simple content instead of an interactive embed. We support: file/url redirects, image embeds, iframe embeds, and LTI tool launches (which can be used to chain LTI embeds together). We do not have support for oEmbed at this time.

LTI Launch vs SCORM

You may be asking yourself, what is the difference between LTI and SCORM? Here is how they differ from one another:

  1. SCORM is usually a full course as opposed to LTI that is usually a smaller learning tool.
  2. LTI is tethered to and embedded from another app, whereas SCORM is typically un-attached from where it came from to packaged up to be imported into another system.
    • SCORM, however, can also be tethered.

FAQs

Is LTI attempt data available in reporting?

Yes. For any course that contains an LTI Launch page, you'll see an LTI tab in content level reporting. This tab includes attempt data along with the Basic Outcomes score, giving you great visibility into learner progress through LTI tools.

 

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