Hackfest UK 2014/LTI

=LTI Usability improvements

This session is about exploring how to improve the use of external (LTI) tools in Moodle.

Participants

• Steven Vickers
• Michael Aherne
• Michael Hughes
• John Tutchings

Rationale

• Usability: enable instructors to more easily find external tools, particularly for high-profile / heavily-used tools (such as Turnitin)
• Usability: enable instructors to customise list of tools in activity chooser

Requirements

1. Tools can be defined by admins and appear as activities in the activity chooser
   1. It would be a good start to have these appear as subtypes of "External tool"
   2. Ideally, it should be possible to allows tools to appear as top-level activities.
2. Ability to add these specific LTI tools to a course should be controllable by admins (currently anyone with LTI addinstance capability can add any tool)
3. Tools should be able to be set up as activity or resource

Suggestions

1. Ability to mark admin-set tools as "to be shown in activity chooser" (and show them)
2. Ability for plugins to dynamically define capabilities so that these LTI tools can be given their own "addinstance" capability
3. Ability for users to define which activities are available in a course (not just LTI tools - this would be a new general Moodle feature)