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| == Description ==
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| === About IMS LTI ===
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| According IMS:
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| ''IMS is developing Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) to allow remote tools and content to be integrated into a Learning Management System (LMS).''
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| === About this plugin ===
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| This is a local plugin for making Moodle a LTI provider tool.
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| It can be use to provide access to full courses or activities from remote systems (other Moodle installations, Sakai, any LMS LTI consumer compliant)
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| Please note that since Moodle 2.2 there is a core activity plugin called "External tool" that is a LTI consumer.
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| === Why this plugin ===
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| This plugin allow remote systems users (LTI consumers) access to Moodle courses or Moodle activities inside a course.
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| Moodle (version 2.2 and onwards) is a LTI consumer tool also.
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| You can use this plugin to share activities and courses between Moodle installations without configuring a Moodle network.
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| You can also share activities and courses with other LTI consumer tools like Sakai
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| You have a detailed view of this plugin possibilities in [http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2012/01/08/review-lti-provider-for-moodle-2-2/ this post by Gavin Henrik]
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| == Main feautres ==
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| Provide access to full courses or single activities.
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| Change the navigation block of a course or activity for displaying information and links only regarding to your current course.
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| Send backs course or activity final grades to the LTI consumer tool
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| Modify the course or activity page for hiding the header, footer and left or right blocks
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| == Plugin version 2.4 and above features ==
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| === The plugin settings link is displayed in the settings block, instead the course one ===
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| === Several new settings for control different features of the plugin: ===
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| - How the user profile is updated
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| - Default authentication method
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| - Format of the course shortname, fullname and idnumber (using LTI variables)
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| - Roles allowed to create new contexts
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| - Roles allowed to create new resources
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| === The remote tool can be opened using the context_id ===
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| The tool can be opened using also the context_id instead the current internal Moodle id
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| === Support for context memberships service ===
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| See http://developers.imsglobal.org/ext_membership.html
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| === LTI custom parameters to force settings on SSO ===
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| See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4502
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| === Service for context (course) creation, using other courses as template ===
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| Service URL local/ltiprovider/services.php
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| Custom parameters:
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| custom_service = create_context
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| custom_context_template = Moodle idnumber for a course to be used as a template (the course will be duplicate)
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| The course will be created populating the fullname, shortname and idnumber configured in the plugin settings
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| === Service for resources duplication ===
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| Service URL local/ltiprovider/services.php
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| Custom parameters:
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| custom_service = duplicate_resource
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| custom_resource_link_copy_id = Moodle idnumber of the activity to be duplicated in the current context
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| === SSO to resources ===
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| If the context resource_link_id matches to an activity idnumber, the user will be redirect to that activity in Moodle
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| === Automatic creation of resources (moodle activities) ===
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| If this additional parameter is present in the request custom_resource_link_type (mod_forum, etc...) and also resource_link_title and resource_link_description a new moodle activity will be created
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| See: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4409
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| === Automatic creation of contexts on SSO ===
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| Two additional request parameters are required:
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| custom_create_context (0 or 1)
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| custom_context_template (Moodle course idnumber)
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| === Resources duplication on SSO ==
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| Additional parameter required:
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| custom_resource_link_copy_id = Moodle idnumber of the activity to be duplicated in the current context
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| == Installing and configuring ==
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| Follow instructions here: http://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=local_ltiprovider
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| '''Important''' If you are using Moodle 2.2 or above, please, be sure that this option:
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| Home / > Site administration / > Security / > HTTP security Allow frame embedding
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| Is checked, if you leave this option unchecked your provider site will not be "embedable" via an iframe in other sites.
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| Once installed, a new link called "LTI Provider" will be displayed in the course navigation block .
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| In this page, you can add, modify and disable the tools provided in your course.
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| Please note that you can provide a tool n times with different configurations
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| There are options for hiding the page header, footer, and left and right blocks and also options for force the Moodle navigation inside a course or activity.
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| There are also options for assign different roles in the course or activity to the remote users.
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| Once added a tool, you will need to use two settings in your consumer tool:
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| * Shared secret
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| * Launch URL
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| Your consumer tool will ask you for a consumer private key, you can use a random string (please, do not use the shared secret as the private key)
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| Configure your consumer tool with these two settings. That's all
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| For a more detailed view of the plugin options see [http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2012/01/08/review-lti-provider-for-moodle-2-2/ this detailed review of the plugin by Gavin Henrik]
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| == How it works ==
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| === User authentication ===
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| * Users are created automatically in their first access to the system.
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| * Users are created with a hashed username and also with an auth method that disable direct login to Moodle.
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| * Users are allways enrolled in the course where the activities are.
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| You can choose which role has the Learner and the Teacher from the remote system.
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| There is also settings for setting Users profile default values (email visible, etc...)
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| If you are going to have courses with local and remote users enrolled, I recommend you to create these new roles:
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| * External teacher
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| * External student
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| === Grading ===
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| A cron job checks periodically activities for sending back grades (overall course grade or activity grade).
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| In order to work correctly, your php.ini settings file needs to have the following setting enabled:
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| allow_url_fopen = On
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| == Credits ==
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| Juan Leyva <http://twitter.com/#!/jleyvadelgado>
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| http://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=49568
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| == See also ==
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| [http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2012/01/08/review-lti-provider-for-moodle-2-2/ Review: LTI Provider by Gavin Henrik] | |
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| [http://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=local_ltiprovider Plugin entry]
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| [https://github.com/jleyva/moodle-local_ltiprovider Github page]
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| [[Category: Contributed code]]
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