What is it?

Overview

This document provides information about What is it?.

IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is a standard set of specifications for allowing third party learning applications (or "tool providers") to integrate with educational platforms (or "tool consumers").

LTI lets you easily integrate external tools (automatic login) into your learning management system (LMS) and allow to user connect with the store like SSO (single sign on) without complete a form.

We offer support for LTI version 1.1

Admin Role Limitation – click to expand

caution

Authentication methods based on IP, URL referrer, LTI or SAML are designed for end-user access only.
When the identifier corresponds to an administrator account, the platform intentionally starts the session with regular user permissions to prevent privilege escalation.

Administrators who need to access the Control Panel must:

1. Set a password to their account.
2. Log out of the current integration-based session.
3. Log back in using email + password to regain full administrator privileges.

You can read more

• What is LTI
• IMS LTI® 1.1
• Basic Overview of how LTI ® Works

We use a POST route in the platform: https://{customer-store.com}/auth/lti

note

A note about privacy.
As standard for LTI, our platform only requires the user_id parameter to uniquely identify the user. But does not require the lis_person_contact_email_primary parameter which could be considered personally identifiable information, this parameter is optional and its use will depend on the customer's use case. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any doubt.

How to configure it?

In the store:

1. Go to Control Panel > Settings > Integrations.
2. In the section LTI Settings create a new connection.
3. Enter the consumer key of your LTI client
4. create a new shared secret
5. Save and share with third party learning application (You can see this data using edit button)

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You can give your users unrestricted access to all your publications or assign a plan automatically

In the third party end: Follow next URLs according the learning application that you need configure it.

Moodle

• Configuring LTI in Moodle
• Publish as LTI tool

Canvas

• How do I set up a Practice LTI integration in my Canvas environment?

Schoology

• Setting Up LTI External Tool Providers in Schoology
• Schoology LTI External Tool Setup

Tools

• Testing tools
• Implement from the Tool Consumer (mostly LMSs) side
• Configuring LTI in popular LMSs

Autoconfig:

• Learning Tools Interoperability XML Schemas
• XML Config Builder

Troubleshooting

Does a user accessing through LTI needs to complete email and password?

No, through LTI the login is automatic. The user can use email and password to access directly from the store web app.

If the learning platform give specific access to books or plans, the user with user and password created can access to all plan or all publications?

The user only has access to a plan assigned. In case that configuration has access to all publications, only can use this access using the login LTI.

Users can access using other devices?

Yes, user could access using other devices if they set email and password and go directly to the store web app.

tip

• You can send us the parameter reader_exit_url and we will use this value allows you to configure the behavior for redirecting the user when they choose to exit the reader. This is useful for customizing a unique exit experience that reflects the integrator's identity.

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