Reusing Course Content with LTI#
When you use LTI to reuse your course content, learners who are already familiar with an external learning management system or other consumer application (external LMS) see content from your Open edX instance that is seamlessly integrated into a familiar context. Only the content that you specify from your Open edX instance appears in the external LMS, typically within an iframe on a page.
For example, you can set up a course on an external LMS, such as Canvas, to include a link to a problem component that is part of a course on your instance. The problem is included as one of the course’s assignments, and appears in Canvas like other content.
This section provides background information on different aspects of the experience that learners and course team members have when interacting with Open edX content in the context of an external LMS.
For information about the content that you can include in an external LMS, see Planning for Content Reuse (LTI).
Course Roster Management#
Course teams manage the course roster entirely on the external LMS, as you would for other courses that run on that platform. Learners do not use the Open edX LMS to enroll, and the course team does not complete any enrollment activities in Studio or the Open edX LMS.
To obtain enrollment data for the course, you use the features available in the external LMS.
Learner Identification and Single Sign On#
Learners do not need to navigate to a different website, or sign in to any other system (including your Open edX instance), to access content that originates in an course in your instance. However, the first time a learner views Open edX course content in the external LMS, she might have to re-enter her credentials for the external LMS, even though she is already signed in to the external LMS.
Internally, the Open edX instance associates a unique internal identifier to each learner’s credentials to allow for a streamlined, single sign in experience in the future. However, this separate identifier can make some content confusing for learners when viewed in the context of an external LMS. For example, Open edX course discussions can identify participants by these unique IDs instead of the usernames they would normally see in the external LMS. As a result, some Open edX content is not currently suitable for use in an external LMS.
For more information, see Planning for Content Reuse (LTI).
Learner Progress and Grades#
Each learner’s progress through the Open edX content is saved. Learners start, stop, and resume work in the external LMS in the same way that they would in the Open edX LMS.
Learner responses to Open edX problem components are graded by the Open edX system, and then transferred automatically to the grade book in the external LMS. For more information, see Grading Remote Content.
To obtain learner engagement and performance data, you use the features available in the external LMS.
See also
Using Open edX as an LTI Tool Provider (concept)
Create a Duplicate Course for LTI use (how-to)
Determine Content Addresses when using Open edX as an LTI Provider (how-to)
Planning for Content Reuse (LTI) (reference)
Use Open edX Platform as an LTI Provider to Canvas (Example) (how-to)
Use Open edX Platform as an LTI Provider to Blackboard (Example) (how-to)
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