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Sakai LTI Advantage 1.3 Setup Guide for Sakai 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 Sakai system administrators and describes how to integrate Poll Everywhere with a Sakai LMS system using LTI Advantage.

    Introduction

    This guide is for Sakai system administrators and describes how to integrate Poll Everywhere with a Sakai LMS system using LTI Advantage.

    Sakai must be at version 19.0 or higher in order to use LTI Advantage. The following screenshots were taken from Sakai 21.1.

    Users who want to manage External Tools must have access to the Administration Workspace. This is only necessary for the Sakai System Administrator who will be performing the initial setup to use Poll Everywhere on the LMS. The individual performing this setup will also need to be an account owner or admin on the university’s Poll Everywhere account.

    Create an External Tool

    Step 1: Log into Sakai as the Sakai system administrator, navigate to the Administrator Workspace, and select External Tools.

    Step 2: Click the link in the top right to Install LTI 1.X Tool.

    Step 3: Open a new browser tab, navigate to PollEverywhere.com, and login with an account owner or admin profile.

    Step 4: Within your Poll Everywhere account, click on the gear icon in the bottom le -hand corner followed by LMS Integration. Here you will add your LTI 1.3 Platform by selecting Add platform.

    Step 5: On the next page, select Sakai from the dropdown list of platform options, and Save.


    Step 6: This is the Poll Everywhere LTI 1.3 Platform details page. You will use the information from the first 4 fields of this page to continue the External Tool setup in Sakai.

    Step 7: Back in the Sakai tab, you will now configure the External Tool with the following values:

    a. Tool title and Button Text  is how your users will identify the External Tool link. You can also add an optional Description.

    b. Ensure that the Tool Status is Enabled, and Tool Visibility is Visible

    c. Launch URL: https://www.polleverywhere.com

    d. Now, scroll down to the Privacy Settings header, and enable the following options:

      1. Send User Names to External Tool
      2. Send Email Addresses to External Tool

    e. In  the Services header enable the following options:

      1. Allow External Tool to return grades
      2. Allow External Tool to create grade columns
      3. Provide Roster to External Tool

    f. Allow the tool URL to receive an LTI launch

    g. Always launch in Popup

    h. Scroll down to the LTI 1.3 settings, and select: Tool supports LTI 1.3

    i. Copy the values from the Poll Everywhere Platform page into the correct fields into the Sakai External Tool setup. You can use the copy link icon next to each field for easy transposing.

      1. (Poll Everywhere) Public JWKS URL > (Sakai) LTI 1.3 Tool Keyset URL. NOTE: For Sakai v20 and later you will need to add `.jwks` extension to the end of this URL after pasting into Sakai.
      2. (Poll Everywhere) Tool OpenID Connect/initialization endpoint > (Sakai) LTI 1.3 Tool OpenID Connect/Initialization Endpoint
      3. (Poll Everywhere) Tool redirect endpoint > (Sakai) LTI 1.3 Tool Redirect Endpoint(s)


    Step 8: Save the External Tool.

    Step 9: After you save the External Tool in Sakai, you will then see a screen with LTI 1.3 values that you will copy into the bottom portion of the Poll Everywhere Platforms page. Use the copy links, and paste the Sakai value into the respective Poll Everywhere field.

    Step 10: Save the Poll Everywhere Platforms page. The External tool should now be available to your faculty.

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