Author Archives: Andy

Using Swagger to Explore the LTI Advantage API

Posted on December 27, 2018 by Andy

LTI Advantage platforms support Assignment and Grade Services and Names and Role Provisioning Services. These services include several RESTful endpoints: Assignment and Grade Services LineItems (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) Results (GET) Scores (POST) Names and Role Provisioning Services Membership (GET) … Continue reading →

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Using Identity Model for LTI Advantage

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Andy

LTI Advantage uses OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 for authentication and authorization. In particular: When a platform launches a tool, it initiates an OpenID Connect third party login. The tool then sends an Authentication Request to the platform, and the … Continue reading →

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Using Identity Server 4 for LTI Advantage

Posted on December 22, 2018 by Andy

LTI Advantage uses OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 for authentication and authorization. In particular: When a platform launches a tool, it initiates an OpenID Connect third party login. The tool then sends an Authentication Request to the platform, and the … Continue reading →

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Using ASP.NET Core for LTI v1.3 and LTI Advantage

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Andy

Last time I wrote about LTI v1.3 and LTI Advantage. This time I’ll describe how I wrote my samples using ASP.NET Core. I created two sample web applications: one for the platform side and one for the tool side of … Continue reading →

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LTI v1.3 and LTI Advantage

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Andy

The next version of LTI is almost here and it is shaping up to be great. In a nutshell, LTI v1.3 takes v1.1, swaps out OAuth 1.0a for OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0, and wraps the name/value parameters in a … Continue reading →

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Sending LTI Outcomes to Google Classroom

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Andy

Proof of concept: use a custom Classroom share button to assign your LTI Tool to Google Classroom. And have LTI outcomes go back as grades! Continue reading →

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Using LTI Tools in Google Classroom

Posted on November 24, 2017 by Andy

According to the the EdNet Insight report, “Educational Technology Trends: State of the K-12 Market 2016”, 67% of US school districts are using Google Classroom as an LMS. Unfortunately, Google does not yet support the IMS LTI standards for interoperability. In … Continue reading →

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Splitting off LtiLibrary 1.6 Repository

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Andy

Soon after releasing LtiLibrary 1.6, I started work on LtiLibrary 2.0 using Visual Studio 2017 which had much better tooling for .NET Core than VS 2015. I decided to also pay off some technical debt that had accrued. The outcome … Continue reading →

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IMS LTI Outcomes 1.0 Versus 2.0

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Andy

IMS LTI Outcomes 1.0 First introduced in March 2012 with LTI 1.1, Outcomes-1 has changed little over the years. It finally got its own spec in January 2015, and it’s own name: Learning Tools Interoperability Outcomes Management Service 1.0. In … Continue reading →

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