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Blackboard LTI Advantage 1.3 Setup Guide for Blackboard Administrators

The Team from Poll Everywhere
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    Learning Tools Interoperability 1.3, or LTI Advantage, is the newest standard defined by the IMS Global Learning Consortium for communicating student data between systems. This latest standard creates a consistent, secure, and agile framework that can be used across different LMS tools. Poll Everywhere is encouraging all of our LMS integration users to update to the new LTI Advantage tools before 2021, as they provide the latest practices for protecting student data and personal identifiable information.

    This guide is for Blackboard system administrators and describes how to integrate Poll Everywhere with a Blackboard LMS system LTI Advantage, version 2.0.1.

    Getting Started

    1. In Blackboard, start by going to the System Admin section from the top navigation.
    2. From the System Admin page, click on the ‘LTI Tool Providers’ link in the Integrations section.

    1. On the next page, click Register LTI 1.3 Tool at the top of the page.

    1. Open a new tab, navigate to PollEverywhere.com, and log in with an account owner or admin profile.
    2. Within your Poll Everywhere account, click on the gear icon in the bottom le -hand corner followed by LMS Integration. This is the page where you will manage your LTI 1.3 Platform. Select Add platform.

    1. On the next page, select Blackboard Learn from the dropdown list of platform options, then Save.

    1. You will find that the form on the next page is completed for you. From this form, copy the information from the ‘Client’ field, and Save.

    1. Go back to your Blackboard browser tab, paste the Client ID into the blank field, and Submit.



    1. On the next page you will be able to name the new integration and update its policies. Name the tool and ensure all Institution Policies are enabled to allow data transfer between Blackboard Learn and Poll Everywhere. When you are done, Submit and you will be redirected back to the Blackboard LTI Tool Provider page.

    1. On the Blackboard LTI Tool Provider page, find the newly added Poll Everywhere tool in the list, click the dropdown menu next to the tool's name, and choose ‘Manage Placements.’

    1. On the next page, click the ‘Create placement’ button.

    1. You will need to complete the required fields and select the following settings on the placement page:
      • Name: Give the tool a name. This will be the name your faculty will use to add the tool to their courses. Example: ‘Poll Everywhere’
      • Handle: Give the tool a shortened name for quick reference. Example: ‘PollEv’
      • Availability: Select ‘Yes’ to ensure the tool is available to instructors.
      • Type:  Select ‘Course content tool’ and check ‘Allows grading’
      • Check the checkbox for ‘Launch in a new window’
      • Tool Provider URL: Enter the Poll Everywhere homepage: https://www.polleverywhere.com

    Select Submit to make the Poll Everywhere integration available to your faculty.

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