1. Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Presentation to SMUG 4 th October 2012, Forth Valley College Simon Booth (University of Stirling), Stephen Vickers (Consultant)

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

3. 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) 3 ceLTIc projects

4. Introduction What is LTI LTI support Moodle & LTI Using LTI in Moodle Tools Demonstration Benefits Questions 4 Outline

5. 5 What is LTI VLE/LMS Gradebook Announcements Discussion board Blog (with LTI)

6. Supported by all major VLEs, including: –Moodle –Blackboard –Desire2Learn –Sakai –WebCT –Canvas – … 6 LTI Support

7. 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 7 Moodle 2.2 supports LTI v1.1

8. 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 secret The above are supplied by the learning tool provider 8 How does this work?

9. 9 Add External Tool

10. 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 10 Privacy

11. 11 Some LTI enabled Tools

12. Moodle 2.2 & Wordpress Noteflight Video (uses basiclti4moodle) http://videos.noteflight.com/MoodleBasicLTI.mov http://videos.noteflight.com/MoodleBasicLTI.mov 12 Demonstration

13. 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 13 Benefits

14. 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 14 LTI v1.1

15. ceLTIc:developers Workshop (18 th October, supported by RSC Scotland) Contact s.p.booth@stir.ac.uks.p.booth@stir.ac.uk LTI Briefing Paper http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/wp- content/uploads/2012/05/LTI-Briefing-Paper.pdf http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/wp- content/uploads/2012/05/LTI-Briefing-Paper.pdf Project web site http://www.celtic-project.org http://www.celtic-project.org IMS http://developers.imsglobal.org/ http://developers.imsglobal.org/ 15 Questions?