You can use LTI-Based publishing if you have:
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After you have created the Blackboard LTI profile on the EchoSystem Server (ESS) you must add the ESS as an LTI tool in Blackboard. This allows Blackboard to securely communicate with the ESS.
The instructions below are provided as a guide for entering and enabling the proper settings in Blackboard using Register Provider Domain. These steps must be performed by the LMS Administrator. Be sure you have created the Blackboard LTI Profile on the ESS so you can copy the appropriate fields from that profile into the Blackboard LTI tool configuration.
If you need further instructions or more detail on using Blackboard, refer to the Blackboard documentation.
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.In order for students to access the EchoCenter for a course, a link to the EchoSystem LTI tool must be added to each course.
There are two approaches you can take:
Both methods are outlined below. If you need further instructions, please see your Blackboard documentation.
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After adding the LTI link to courses, the final step will be to add the LMS ID for each course into the corresponding section page on the ESS - documented at the bottom of this page.
The newly created LTI provider appears on the LTI providers list. From here, you can manage the placement of the tool in Blackboard. Creating a name and placing the tool in a menu is not required, but doing so makes it easy for instructors (or students) to find and use, because the instructors adding the LTI tool to their courses do not have to know the tool URL or secret key.
If a tool provider has no placements, instructors can still use it in courses as described in Create a Web Link for ESS LTI Tool.
To Manage Placement for an LTI tool link:
Click Create Placement.
In the Create Placement form that appears, enter the following:
For Type, select Student Tool or Content Type. These are described as follows:
Add an icon for the tool by clicking Browse and uploading an image file 50 x 50 pixels. For your convenience, we have attached an appropriately sized Echo icon to this page. Click the link then select Save As or Save Page As from your browser's File menu to save the link for use. It should save as a *.png (portable network graphic) file.
Type in the tool provider information. In most cases, this is the same information you added when you created the tool, including Provider Secret and Provider Key, unless you are creating multiple placements for the same registered provider.
Click Submit.
After the LTI tool has been added to the Blackboard system, a course administrator or instructor can add a link to the EchoCenter LTI tool within the course. This LTI tool provides seamless authentication from Blackboard to the EchoSystem. Use the steps below to create a new web link in your course.
To Create a Web Link for the LTI Tool:
In order for the ESS to know what content to serve to the LMS, each section in ESS needs to be associated with the LMS course to which it belongs. The External System ID field in the ESS section configuration page, shown in the below figure, provides this association.
Populate this field with the Course ID number for the corresponding course in Blackboard. The Course ID can be found on the Properties page for each course. In addition, you can export course IDs from Blackboard and use them to create ESS sections via import.
This process can be done by the administrator for all courses and sections, or by the Instructor for specific sections.
For more information on creating and configuring sections in the ESS, see Manage Terms, Courses, and Sections.
When a student clicks on the content link in Blackboard, the EchoCenter for the appropriate section is automatically shown through the course page of the Blackboard interface.