How can I embed your content into our Learning Management System?

How can I embed your content into our Learning Management System?

Using LTI Launch URLs

Alexander Street supports standard linking to content using Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) launch URLs. With LTI your instructors can more easily embed links to content and users can access the content using their credentials on the learning management system. With LTI there is no need to add proxy prefixes to the content page request and no need for the user to sign into the proxy. Simply use a provided LTI launch URL as shown below and paste it into the course page on your LMS.

Overview of the Steps

In the LTI standard terminology, Alexander Street’s platform is the “Tool Provider” and your LMS is the “Tool Consumer”. These steps outline how to set up and use a new Tool Provider in your LMS.

• Administrator One-time Setup: Send an email to support@alexanderstreet.com asking for your institution’s LTI configuration settings. They will send you a “consumer key” and a “secret”.
• Administrator One-time Setup: Configure the consumer key and the secret into your LMS, which typically involves “adding a new tool provider”. Some LMS’s call these “External Tools”. The consumer key and secret we provide are a global setting that applies to any content on the Alexander Street site. How tool providers are added depends on the LMS (see tips below).
• Instructor: To embed an LTI link to an Alexander Street media or document view, visit the view page on search.alexanderstreet.com and click on the “</> Embed/Link” option. A popup will appear that looks like this:

• Instructor: Copy the URL labeled LTI launch URL into your clipboard.
• Instructor: Paste this into the LMS page you want to link from. See the tips below on “Adding Links” for the LMS that you use.
• User: Log into the LMS, navigate to the course page containing the link and click on the link. That’s it! The user will be automatically authenticated as a member of your institution even if they are remote.

For details on where to find further information on the configuration settings and LTI use cases of your course management system, please see the support links listed below.

There are always more ways than one to accomplish something in a course management system, but these quick tips may help you get started and troubleshoot problems.

Quick Tips

 

• Angel Learning: http://www.angellearning.com/services/customer_support.html
  • See this general overview of their support for LTI standards.
• Blackboard:
  • Setup:
    • See the Blackboard help Add a New LTI Tool Provider. This needs to be done only once.
  • Adding links:
    • Create a content item in Blackboard
    • Add a web link using “Create Web Link”. Paste in the Launch URL and check the box “This link is to a Tool Provider”.
• Canvas:
  • Setup
    • You can add an External Tool manually or by URL or XML. See “How do I configure an External App”. This needs to be done only once.
  • Adding Links
    • See the Canvas document on “Add External Tool as a Module Item”.
• Desire2Learn: http://www.desire2learn.com/services/customer-service-support/
  • Setup:
    • See the Desire2Learn Resource Center help for “Setting up integration with a tool provider”. This needs to be done only once.
  • Adding Links:
    • See the Desire2Learn Resource Center help for “Setting up a link to a tool provider”
• Moodle: https://moodle.org/support/
  • Setup:
    • See the Moodle documentation for adding an “External Tool”. This needs to be done only once.
  • Adding Links:
    • See the Moodle documentation for “Using External Tool”.
• Sakai:
  • Setup:
    • See the Sakai wiki, which provides a link to a document “Using the Sakai LTI Tool Provider”.
  • Adding Links:
    • The same document covers adding links.
• Schoolology:
  • Setup:
    • See the Schoology How to Guide on LTI
  • Adding Links:
    • The same how to guide covers this too.
• More on LTI Launch URLs:
  • Configurations can also be imported into some LMS’s by browsing and downloading configurations from Edu App Center.
  • These configurations also include enhancements to the rich text editor in your LMS that makes it possible to discover and integrate LTI Launch URLs from within the editor.