LTI/Best Practice

Learning Tools Interoperability^® (LTI^®): A Best Practice Guide

based on the original report written by

Stephen P Vickers
Simon Booth

for

ceLTIc:developers Project

August 2014

Contents

1. Introduction
   1. Terminology
   2. LTI Releases
2. Issues for Developers
   1. Anatomy of a launch request
   2. Launch parameters
   3. Security
   4. Receiving a launch request
   5. Identity values
   6. Roles
   7. CSS
   8. Override interface
   9. Branding
   10. Course archive/restore/copy
   11. Class libraries
   12. Browser issues
3. Issues for System Administrators
   1. Tool requirements
   2. Configuring tools (XML)
   3. Verifying connections
   4. Course archive/restore/copy
   5. Mapping VLE/LTI roles
4. Issues for Teachers and Students
   1. Number of links per course
   2. Pre-populating enrolments and groups
   3. Managing outcomes
   4. Re-using content
   5. Sharing content
   6. Mapping VLE/LTI roles
   7. "Dummy" users
5. Issues for Service Providers
   1. Service level agreements
   2. Upgrades
   3. Backups

• References

Case studies

1. WebPA launch requests
2. User scope in WordPress
3. Custom parameters supported by WebPA
4. Testing mode

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