LTI

What it is?

LTI stands for Learning Tools Interoperability, a standard developed by IMS Global Learning Consortium. The purpose of LTI is to provide a standard for integrating educational applications (such as Paragin's products) into learning environments, portals and other educational environments.

What can be done with the LTI standard?

By using the LTI standard, it is possible to integrate an external tool into, for example, an ELE (Electronic Learning Environment) or LMS (Learning Management System) using a URL and a unique key. In this process, user login credentials are retained (Single Sign On). In addition, LTI provides a protocol for exchanging data between the educational application and the learning platform. If LTI is used, it is possible to pass on the following data :

• User data such as name and contact details but also the user's role (e.g. teacher or student);
• Learning platform data. Think of institution data, ELE, etc);
• With this it is possible to indicate from which course/course the user is referred);
• Results or grades can be returned to the ELE or LMS.

For the exchange of privacy-sensitive data such as user data, OAuth standard is used. This open standard uses tokens that handle authorization between applications. This eliminates the need to share login credentials between applications.

Disclaimer: This text was automatically translated from the Dutch version.