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André Storhaug edited this page Jul 9, 2019 · 13 revisions

[WIP] Moodle integration in Blackboard

Blackboard has the capability of integrating a Moodle course or activity with the help of LTI. Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is a standard created by the IMS Global Learning Consortium that links content and resources to learning platforms.

1. Share access to a course or activity in Moodle

  1. Go to the 'Enrolment methods' page and add 'Publish as LTI tool' as an enrolment method
  2. In 'Tool to be published' select the course or activity to be shared
  3. Click the 'Add method' button
  4. Go to Course Administration > Published as LTI tools page (/enrol/lti/index.php?courseid=n) and make a note of the launch details or the registration URL for the LTI consumer site (see below for info on which to choose). The URL will be of the form: .../enrol/lti/...
  5. You will also need to give the LTI consumer site a consumer key - this can be anything you want.

The LTI consumer can be another Moodle site or any other LTI-consumer-compliant LMS, such as Blackboard. Depending on the requirements of the LTI consumer, you can provide either a cartridge URL (also called configuration URL) plus secret OR a launch URL (new in Moodle 3.5.2) OR a registration URL.

2. Integrate a Moodle course or activity with Blackboard

When you have shared access to a course or an activity you need to link to this content in Blackboard.

  1. First you need to go to a course within Blackboard. Enter a content area, for example learning materials.
  2. Click on the Build Content button, and select Web Link

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  1. Enter a Name for the resource. In the URL field, fill inn the URL obtained in step 1.?.
  2. You then need to check the This link is to a Tool Provider checkbox.

If the URL in step 2.3 is valid, you will see a number of fields.

  1. In the Key, enter any key you want. This can be thought of as a username used to authenticate access to the Moodle LTI Tool. If you provide the same key in another Web Link / LTI Tool, you will maintain progress/session in the external resource (reuses the same user). [Needs simplified explanation]
  2. Enter the Secret obtained in step 1.?.
  3. If you would like to not show blocks for teachers, you can enter force_embed = 1 into the Custom Parameters field. This may limit the functionality available to teachers and admins. To get blocks back, simply remove the parameter.
  4. If you want to retrieve the grade(s) obtained in the course/activity, select Yes on Enable Evaluation.
    1. Enter the desired number of possible points in the Points Possible field.
    2. Select the appropriate radio button next to Visible to Students, according to whether you want to make the grade visible to students.
    3. If you want, you can set a due date. Select the checkbox next to Due Date and set a date and time in the respective fields.
  5. You may want to add a description of the content in the Description field. you may also attach any file under Attachments.
  6. Next to Open in New Window you may chose if you want to have the LTI activity opened in a now window or not (built in).
  7. Finally, you might want to set date and time restrictions. This can be done under Select Date and Time Restrictions.

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