Your courses inside Moodle, Canvas or Blackboard by LTI 1.3
Add SmartMy Learn as an LTI 1.3 tool in a university's or client's LMS. Their learners open your course from there, are signed in and enrolled here, and their progress goes back to that LMS's gradebook.
PLANSScale only
The problem it solves
- A university wants your course, but its students live in its own LMS.
- Each outside learner needs an account made by hand.
- Their teachers want the progress in their own gradebook, not in a report you email.
How it works
- A Learn Manager opens Learn > Manage Courses > Configuration > Outside Tools > Inside Another LMS and adds the LMS. The form shows what to enter there: tool URL, login URL, redirect URL, key set URL and content selection URL.
- Enter what the LMS gives back: its issuer, client ID, deployment IDs, authentication, token and key set URLs.
- In the LMS, set the activity to open in a new window.
- A learner who opens the activity gets an outside learner login here (no password: they always come through the LMS), is signed in and enrolled.
- Which course opens: the one set on the link, the custom parameter course=<code>, or the LMS's default course. Otherwise the teacher picks it on the first launch or through content selection.
- Progress goes back as a grade from 0 to 100, completed when the course is finished, every ten minutes when it changes. See Learn > Manage Courses > Reporting > Packages and Tools > Grades Sent to Other LMSs.
Everything it does
The LMS record
- Platform ID (Issuer), Client ID, Deployment IDs (empty: any)
- Authentication Request URL, Access Token URL, Public Keyset URL
- Match Learners by Email: on to start with
- Send Progress as a Grade: on to start with
- Course When None Is Chosen; Links and Learners tabs
Logins
- One outside learner login per person of that LMS, kept by their LMS ID
- Never a staff login
- Learners get logins in the Entity the LMS is registered for and see its courses
Grades
- A gradebook column is made when the LMS gave none
- Each link shows the grade sent, when, and the last problem
Who uses it
Learn ManagerRegisters each LMS and chooses the default course.
Teacher in the other LMSAdds the activity and picks the course.
Learner in the other LMSOpens the activity and learns here without a second password.
Where you use it
- Web: Learn > Manage Courses > Configuration > Outside Tools > Inside Another LMS; Reporting > Packages and Tools > Grades Sent to Other LMSs
- In the other LMS: an LTI 1.3 activity that opens in a new window
- Not inside a frame of the other LMS: the sign-in is not kept there
What you control
Settings
- Match Learners by Email: on; Send Progress as a Grade: on; per LMS
Questions
Do learners need a password for SmartMy Learn?
No. They always come through their LMS, which signs them in here.Which LMSs?
Any LMS that adds LTI 1.3 tools, such as Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard and Brightspace. Each is set up and tested with you before go-live.What grade goes back?
The learner's course progress from 0 to 100, marked complete when the course is finished.Should Match Learners by Email stay on?
Keep it on only for an LMS where people cannot change their own email address. Otherwise switch it off, so each LMS person gets their own login here.Related features
BOUGHT CONTENT AND COMMUNITYOutside tools by LTI 1.3, with scores backAdd any LTI 1.3 tool, such as a coding lab, a science simulator or a publisher's content, as a lesson. Learners open it signed in, and the scores the tool sends back finish the lesson.TEACHING AND TRACKINGSell your own courses: shop, coupons and online paymentTraining firms and coaching centres put published courses in a public shop with a price. Buyers pay online through your own payment provider, get a login and are enrolled at once.COURSES AND ENROLMENTEnrolment by hand or by rules, kept current every nightPut people on a course by hand, or write a rule once: a role, a department, new joiners or a class. Every night the course enrols whoever the rule matches and drops people who no longer match.BOUGHT CONTENT AND COMMUNITYSCORM 1.2 and xAPI packagesPlay SCORM 1.2 and xAPI (Tin Can) courses bought from content makers or exported from your authoring tool, as lessons in your own courses. Their progress, score and place are kept, and the lesson is done when the package says so.
See your first course on it.
Tell us who learns (students, staff or both), how many people and what you teach today. We will set up one course with you and enrol a class or a department.