About the LTI Component

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About the LTI Component#

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You can integrate remote learning tools, such as applications and textbooks, into your course with the learning tools interoperability (LTI) component. The LTI component supports tools with the LTI 1.1 and LTI 1.3 specifications. Additionally, the LTI 1.3 tools can use the following LTI Advantage extensions: Deep Linking, Assignments and Grades services and Names and Roles Provisioning Service.

Before you make tools from an external site available through your course, be sure to review the tools to ensure that they are accessible to people with disabilities. For example, in addition to testing the LTI components that you add to your course, you can ask third party providers to confirm that a tool is accessible, and, if available, contact your on campus accessibility support services for additional guidance. For more information, see Accessibility Best Practices Checklist.

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You can use an LTI component in several ways.

  • You can add remote LTI tools that display content only, and that do not require a learner response. An example is a digital copy of a textbook in a format other than PDF.

  • You can add remote LTI tools that do require a learner response. A remote LTI tool provider grades the responses.

  • You can use the LTI component as a placeholder for synchronizing with a remote grading system.

For example, the following LTI component integrates a Cerego tool that learners interact with into the LMS for a course.

A page in the LMS showing the Cerego music player and a question for learners to answer about it.

When you add an LTI component to your course, the edX Learning Management System (LMS) is the LTI tool consumer, and the external tool or content is the LTI tool provider.

Be sure to review all supplemental materials to ensure that they are accessible before making them available through your course. For more information, see Accessibility Best Practices Checklist.

You can also integrate content from a course into a remote learning management system such as Canvas or Blackboard.

For more information about how to use Studio as an LTI tool provider, see Using Open edX as an LTI Tool Provider.

See also

LTI Component Settings (reference)

Enable LTI Components for a Course (how-to)

Set Up an LTI 1.1 Component (how-to)

Set Up an LTI 1.3 Component (how-to)

Enable and Use LTI Advantage Features (how-to)

Maintenance chart

Review Date

Working Group Reviewer

Release

Test situation
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