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Revision as of 15:48, 3 January 2012
Description
About IMS LTI
According IMS:
IMS is developing Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) to allow remote tools and content to be integrated into a Learning Management System (LMS).
About this plugin
This is a local plugin for making Moodle a LTI provider tool.
It can be use to provide access to full courses or activities from remote systems (other Moodle installations, Sakai, any LMS LTI consumer compliant)
Please note that since Moodle 2.3 there is a core activity plugin called "External tool" that is a LTI consumer.
Why this plugin
Main feautres
Provide access to full courses or single activities.
Change the navigation block of a course or activity for displaying information and links only regarding to your current course.
Send backs course or activity final grades to the LTI consumer tool
Modify the course or activity page for hiding the header, footer and left or right blocks
How it works
User authentication
- Users are created automatically in their first access to the system.
- Users are created with a hashed username and also with an auth method that disable direct login to Moodle.
- Users are allways enrolled in the course where the activities are.
You can choose which role has the Learner and the Teacher from the remote system.
There is also settings for setting Users profile default values (email visible, etc...)
If you are going to have courses with local and remote users enrolled, I recommend you to create these new roles:
- External teacher
- External student
Grading
A cron job checks periodically activities for sending back grades (overall course grade or activity grade).
Future versions
- Handle authentication with a custom auth plugin for Moodle (for handling logout, etc...)
- Add options for automatically add remote users to course groups.
- Add options for automatically add remote users to system cohorts.
- Add options for enabling duration time for enrolments
Credits
Juan Leyva <http://twitter.com/#!/jleyvadelgado>
http://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=49568
