--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Docs_Adding_External_Tool.tex 2018/05/29 19:33:57 1.2
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Docs_Adding_External_Tool.tex 2024/01/25 19:51:24 1.4
@@ -1,17 +1,20 @@
\label{Docs_Adding_External_Tool}
-External tools which support the LTI (Learning Tool Interoperability)
-standard can be included within a LON-CAPA course. Which tools are available,
-as well as the options which can be set by a Coordinator when including
-one of the available tools within a course or community, are set by the Domain
-Coordinator at a domain level.
+A domain coordinator determines whether External Tools which support the LTI
+(Learning Tool Interoperability) standard should be available in each course
+type, or in specific course(s), and also whether definition and configuration
+of such tools are permitted within your course.
+
+External Tools may have been defined at a domain level for use in your course,
+and if so, the options which can be set when including one of the available tools
+within a course or community, will also have been set in the domain.
The full range of options which may be available to the Coordinator in the course
or community are:
\begin{itemize}
-\item Display type
+\item Display target
\begin{itemize}
\item iframe -- the tool will be launched within the standard interface, (i.e.,
inline menu including navigation controls, and links/icons)
@@ -50,18 +53,24 @@ specified availability of a passback ser
\end{itemize}
-If external LTI tools can be used in the course's domain, you will select the
-name of the tool you wish to use from the ``Select'' drop-down list. Doing
+If External Tools can be used in the course's domain, you will choose
+either ``Defined in domain'' or ``Defined in course'' to populate the
+``Select'' drop-down list with a list of available tools. Choose the
+name of the tool you wish to use from the drop-down list. Doing
so will cause the options for the tool to be displayed. If display is in
an iframe, by default, but you are permitted to choose one of the other types,
then click tab or window will cause additional elements to be displayed.
-Your domain coordinator can tell you what data are sent to the external tool
-when it is displayed. Typically, though, this will include the username of the
-user, as well as the user's current ``LTI'' role. LTI uses a more restricted
-set of roles -- Instructor, Content Developer, Teaching Assistant or Learner --
-than are available in LON-CAPA. Your domain coordinator will have decided on
-the mapping to an LTI role to be used for each standard LON-CAPA role. At a minimum
+For tools defined in the domain, your domain coordinator can tell you what
+data are sent to the external tool when it is displayed. Typically, though,
+this will include the username of the user, as well as the user's current
+``LTI'' role. For tools defined in the course, you can see what data are sent
+ny using Settings $>$ Course Settings $>$ Display (``External Tools'' checked).
+
+LTI uses a more restricted set of roles -- Instructor, Content Developer,
+Teaching Assistant or Learner -- than are available in LON-CAPA. For tools
+defined in the domain, your domain coordinator will have decided on the
+mapping to an LTI role to be used for each standard LON-CAPA role. At a minimum
you can expect that Course Coordinator (LON-CAPA) will map to Instructor (LTI),
Student (LON-CAPA) will map to Learner (LTI).