Overview

Adding a basic LTI v1.1 tool has two steps:

Step 1: Adding CN ePortfolio (Course-level) as a site-wide LTI tool (Should be done by Moodle admin)

Step 2: Adding CN ePortfolio (Course-level) as an Activity in a given course (Can be done by both instructor and Moodle admin) 

Step 1. Adding CN ePortfolio (Course-level) as a site-wide LTI tool (done by Moodle admin)

From the “Administration” block, which by default should be on the left of your dashboard, click the following options in order:

Site Administration->Plugins->Activity Modules->LTI->Manage external tool types

Once the “Manage external tool types” page opens, click on “Add external tool configuration”

Admin can use the following information to fill out the form:

• Tool name: CN ePortfolio (Course-level)

• Tool base URL: https://www.thecn.com/program/lti/portfolio_course

• Consumer key: generated_consumer_key (we will share this information with you separately, please do not share this confidential credential)

• Shared secret: generated_shared_secret (we will share this information with you separately, please do not share this confidential credential)

• Check the box next to “Show tool type when creating tool instances”

• Default launch container: "New window”

• Under the Privacy section:

• Share launchers name with tool: Always

• Share launchers email with tool: Always

• Accept grades from the tool: Delegate to teacher 

After this step, we have a sample tool created. The result should look like this:

Step 2. Adding CN ePortfolio (Course-level) as an Activity in a given course (Can be done by both course instructor and Moodle admin) 

After adding CN ePortfolio (Course-level) as an external tool to your institution Moodle, each instructor is able to go to their course and make CN ePortfolio (Course-level) an activity. Moodle admin can also do this for instructors based on institution policy.

To add CN ePortfolio (Course-level) to courses, an instructor or admin can go to the course and click “Turn Editing On”, and then click “Add an activity or resource”. From the list, choose “External tool” and click Add.

For the final step, fill out the form below and click on save.

• Activity name: CN ePortfolio (or another name that captures the purpose of the activity)
• External tool type: select "CN ePortfolio (Course-level)".

Now the CN ePortfolio (Course-level) LTI tool is available to course members. Clicking the generated tool link, course members will be taken to the CN ePortfolio course interface, and from there they can access their CN ePortfolio.