External Tool (LTI 1.3) Media

Since the configuration of the LTI tool is provider-specific, it cannot be described in a general manner here. Even though LTI is a standard there may be variations depending on the LTI provider. If you have any questions about this, please contact your LTI tool provider directly. Once the configuration has been completed, the LTI Tool Provider will store the configuration on their side. When learners launch the tool later, the tool provider will detect the configuration and display the tool as configured. 

Some tools might not require any kind of configuration, e.g if the LTI Provider deploys a single tool only. In that case, setup LTI 1.3 provider with correct values, create LTI media with that provider and launch media as learner. 

Grading configuration

For grading configuration and automatic status change to in progress/failed/passed two meta tags are relevant “Accept grades, points of external LTI content provider” (11425) and “Mastery score (11426)”. The following table shows the different configuration options.

Accept Grades

Mastery Score

Learner's Score

Resulting Status

Explanation

Enabled

Empty (= value from LTI provider e.g. 60.0) 

90%

Passed

Passed as it is above 60%.

Enabled

Empty (= value from LTI provider e.g. 60.0) 

30%

Failed

30 is below the mastery score of 100.

Disabled

Empty (= value from LTI provider e.g. 60.0) 

90%

In Progress

The score is ignored; the learner can mark the medium as completed manually (if allowed).

Enabled

20.0

30%

Passed

30 is above the mastery score of 20.

Note

  • The score that is sent by the LTI provider to the LMS are used for calculation in the background and not displayed.

  • In case LTI 1.3 is being configured with grading it is important to make sure that there is a value in the Default client field in the client settings. Otherwise an error may occur.

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Some tools can also be configured interactively on the first access. Therefore, after the creation, each tool should be accessed once as tutor.