How to use Edform in your LMS (LTI 1.3)

For LMS administrators: register Edform

Edform supports LTI 1.3 Dynamic Registration: paste one URL and Edform registers itself.

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   Step 1: Copy Edform's registration URL

   https://edform.com/api/lti/register

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   Step 2: Moodle

   Site administration → Plugins → Activity modules → External tool → Manage tools. Paste the URL into “Tool URL”, press “Add LTI Advantage”, then activate Edform in the list.

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   Step 3: Canvas

   Admin → Developer Keys → + Developer Key → + LTI Registration, paste the URL and enable the key. Then install Edform with its client ID under Settings → Apps.

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   Step 4: D2L Brightspace

   Admin Tools → Manage Extensibility → LTI Advantage → Register Tool, choose Dynamic and paste the URL. Then create a deployment for the org units that should use Edform.

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   Step 5: Blackboard Learn

   Administrator Panel → Integrations → LTI Tool Providers → Register LTI 1.3/Advantage Tool. Enter Edform's Client ID a552e226-43e2-459e-bf64-256b02e41824 and approve the tool.

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   Step 6: Sakai

   Administration Workspace → External Tools → LTI Dynamic Registration: paste the URL, press Begin Configuration, then save the tool.

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   Step 7: Open edX, itslearning, Blackbaud and other LTI 1.3 LMSs

   Open https://edform.com/lti/setup. Enter Edform's URLs listed there in your LMS's LTI 1.3 tool settings, then save your LMS's Client ID, Deployment ID and URLs on the same page.

Add an Edform activity to a course

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   Step 1: Add an external tool and choose Edform

   Where you add activities or external tools to a course, choose Edform. Edform's picker opens inside the LMS.

   edform.com/lti/pick

   

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   Step 2: Connect your Edform account the first time

   Press “Use my Edform account” to sign in to the account you already use (it opens a new tab; come back and press continue), or “I'm new” to create one.

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   Step 3: Pick an activity and press “Add”

   Edform creates homework for this course and the LMS places the link, with a gradebook column out of 100.

Students open it from the course

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   Step 1: Open the activity in the course

   Students click the Edform activity. If the LMS shows Edform inside the page, they press “Open Edform” and it opens in a new tab, signed in.

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   Step 2: Hand in

   Their best score goes to the LMS gradebook right away. Answers you grade later update it.