Course Activities provide access to LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) Resource links and other learning components in Classes, Course Assignments, and Learning Paths. An LTI Resource Link activity provide encrypted links to content through an LTI Provider. When the student selects the Launch button on the activity, they are taken to the content.
The steps below assume you have completed the Basic Information section in the course (Creating Courses). Before adding a course activity, you should select whether the course will available instructor-led and/or available Self-Paced on the Basic Information tab. This will affect the defaults for visibility of the activities you add for classes and course assignments.
Add an LTI Resource link to a Course
To add an LTI Resource link to your course:
On the Create Course or Edit Course page, select Activities.
Select Add LTI Resource Link.
In the Choose LTI Resource Link dialog, search for and select the LTI Resource link you want to add to the course and select OK.
Each LTI Resource link activity has the following fields you can set for more control over that activity:
Field | Description |
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Duration | sets the estimated amount of time the activity should take. This may affect the overall duration of the class. |
Availability | limits who can access the activity. It defaults to Everyone, but you can limit it to Instructors only if the activity is intended only for instructors. |
Required for course completion | requires a student to complete the activity for the course assignment or class enrollment to be marked Complete. |
Available Instructor-Led | makes the activity visible in classes and class enrollments. |
Available Self-Paced | makes the activity visible in course assignments. |
Bundles together content to then be set up for training through classes, subscriptions, and course assignments. Courses can include labs, videos, SCORM, LTI, external links, assessments, and documents. Courses must be assigned to a Content Provider and a Publishing Group to be available to set up for training.
Activities are configured in the instructions editor and represented in the lab instructions by a replacement token. Activities fall into two broad categories: Questions and Automated.
- Questions are multiple choice or short answer questions.
- Automated Activities interact with the lab environment (Virtual Machine/Container/Cloud Platform).
Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is a technical standard which allows courseware and learning tools from different vendors to be launched securely within a learning platform without logging into each tool. LTI activities can be added to courses allowing a student to launch into content from another platform.
A class is a scheduled instructor-led event with a start and end time/date. Typically, these include lectures and hands on activities such as labs.
A course assignment delivers self-paced access to a course. A course is assigned to a student giving immediate access to the student. It can be accessed at any time for the duration of the assignment. The assignment duration begins and is billed when it is created.
A learning path is curated set of courses belonging to a Subscription Profile to lead the learner through a guided journey to help them learn a specfic topic.
Self-Paced or On-demand training is associated with course assignments or subscriptions. Users are assigned training which can be accessed at any time by the learner at their leisure. Outside guidance or mentorship is often not provided with this type of training.