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Avalon as
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Learning Management System
An Avalon site can be configured to work as an LTI tool in an LMS is to offer course-specific access and customized content verified by the LMS. All a user would need to do to access course items is to a Learning Management System, allowing access to media based on course membership. To access course items, a user can log into their LMS, click on an external tool link, and then they will be redirected to a special Avalon context that only shows items authorized for the course. As part of the redirect, avalon Avalon gathers course and user information verified by OauthOAuth. Using the course idID, avalon Avalon customizes the landing page for the user to only show items listed for that course.
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LTI Setup
Add the LMS as an authentication provider
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Configure hash keys
There are more lti configuration options in config/lti.yml, which tells avalon where to look for user, class and lms information in the hash received from the LMS. These are the default values that are hard-coded into our version of the gem omniauth-lti. You'll only need to add the lti.yml if any of these values are different for your LMS. You might want to follow /wiki/spaces/AVALON/pages/1957966973 for choosing values to avoid confusion in the interface.
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--- <tool_consumer_instance_guid>: :uid: :user_id :email: :lis_person_contact_email_primary :context_id: :context_id :context_name: :context_label |
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The next final step is to go into your LMS or CMS and create a link to the avalon LTI.
Sakai
the Avalon LTI.
Canvas
Canvas allows for the specification of global as well as course-specific LTI providers. From either the Global or the Course Settings, click Apps, then View App Center to reveal the Add New App button.
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Clicking that button reveals the LTI app configuration panel.
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The parameters are similar to those entered for Sakai or Blackboard.
Sakai
To add an external tool to a course, go to site setup on the sidebar then check off the box for one of the external tools. We already named one "Avalon".
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Click on it and select the edit button in the upper left hand corner. We used the following settings (replacing <avalon ip address> with your url):
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Contact the Avalon team for more information.