Publish as LTI tool

Moodle as an LTI provider

The 'Publish as LTI tool' enrolment plugin, together with the LTI authentication plugin, allows remote users on a different site (known as an LTI consumer) to access selected courses and activities. In other words, Moodle functions as an LTI tool provider. Grades are sent back to the remote system. See the screencast Publish as LTI tool for a demonstration.

If your moodle instance is not using HTTPS you will only be able to use the tool on site's that are also using HTTPS. It's recommended that you use HTTPS on your moodle instance. See Transitioning to HTTPS

Note: LTI 2 is supported in Moodle 3.2, making it easier for others to access your shared content.

Enabling 'Publish as LTI tool' at site level

An administrator can enable the 'Publish as LTI tool' for use across the site:

Go to Site administration > Plugins > Authentication > Manage authentication and enable LTI
Go to Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins and enable 'Publish as LTI tool'

It is recommended that the site administration setting 'Allow frame embedding' is enabled (in "Site Administration > Security > HTTP security") so that tools are displayed within a frame rather than in a new window.

Sharing access to a course or activity

Published tools

Go to the 'Enrolment methods' page and add 'Publish as LTI tool' as an enrolment method
In 'Tool to be published' select the course or activity to be shared
Click the 'Add method' button
Go to Course Administration > Published as LTI tools page (/enrol/lti/index.php?courseid=n) and make a note of the launch details (cartridge URL and secret) or just 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/...
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 Sakai.

Grade and user synchronisation (if required) are done via the 'Publish as LTI tool grade sync' and 'Publish as LTI tool users sync' scheduled tasks, which run by default every 30 minutes.

If user synchronisation is set to yes, enrolled users in the remote system are synchronised with enrolments in the course, with an account created for each remote user as necessary, and the user enrolled or unenrolled as required. If set to no, at the moment when a remote user accesses the tool, an account will be created for them and they will be automatically enrolled.

LTI 1 or LTI 2?

LTI 1 actually means a launch URL (which is compatible with LTI 1 or LTI 2 compliant consumers). LTI 2 actually means a proxy (which is compatible with LTI 2 compliant consumers).

IMS Spec	Moodle	Canvas	Edu app center (Canvas)	Desire2Learn	Blackboard	Sakai
Tool consumer	External Tool	External App	App	Link	LTI Tool provider*	Sakai Basic LTI portlet
Launch URL	Tool URL	Launch URL	n/a	URL	Provider Domain	Remote Tool URL
Secret	Secret	Secret	Secret	Secret	Tool Provider Secret	Remote tool secret
Cartridge URL	Tool URL	Paste XML	Configuration URL	n/a	n/a	Tool registration file?
Proxy URL	Registration URL/Tool URL	LTI 2 Registration URL	n/a	n/a	n/a	-

On the LTI consumer site

Visit a course.
Add a LTI activity and use the URL and secret from the LTI provider site and enter any consumer key you want.
If you would like to not show blocks for teachers, you can pass the custom parameter "force_embed = 1". This may limit the functionality available to teachers and admins. To get blocks back, simply remove the parameter.
Log in as a student.
Visit the course and click on the LTI activity.
Check the activity displays as expected.

Any further questions?

Please post in the LTI and Moodle forum on moodle.org

Documentation