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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 encourages 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.
The instructions for Moodle LMS LTI Adv. 1.3, version 2.0.1, are included in the following sections.
Introduction
Instructors can import their course rosters from their university’s Moodle LMS into Poll Everywhere. This automatically registers each student as a Poll Everywhere participant. Registering students with Poll Everywhere allows educators to identify how students responded to their activities easily, enabling you to import those responses into Moodle via a Gradebook report. The following instructions will walk you through importing students and exporting graded responses to Moodle.
Connecting your course to Poll Everywhere and syncing your roster
Step 1: In Moodle, navigate to the course you want to use with Poll Everywhere.
Step 2: Click to Turn editing on the top right of the screen.
Step 3: Under the Topic section in your course, Select "Add an activity or resource."
Step 4: Select All tab
Step 5: Select Poll Everywhere as the Preconfigured tool. Under the Common module settings menu, ensure the Availability is set to "Hide on Course page." Finally, click Save and return to course.
Step 6: Turn off Edit mode
Step 7: Click the Topic in the course to open the Poll Everywhere tool. On the LMS Import page, click the Sync Roster button and Poll Everywhere will begin importing the student roster for the selected Moodle course. If you have changed your participant list in Moodle since you first synced your roster, this will update your rosters in Poll Everywhere to match.
When this is done, a new Poll Everywhere account will be created for each student who did not already have one. Students will automatically receive a notification email with a link to change their password. You can edit and manage the imported students at https://www.polleverywhere.com/participants.
Course management
Course management streamlines course administration, simplifying class management for educators and administrators. This update enhances how professors integrate Poll Everywhere with their LMS.
Key Features:
- Scoring Assignments: Assignments can be scored based on correctness, participation, and attendance. These scores seamlessly sync with your LMS using both points-based and percentage-based models.
To learn more, please click here: Getting Started with Course Management
Re-syncing your roster
After the initial connection, you may want to re-sync your participant roster. This may be necessary if students were added or dropped from the LMS course. Re-syncing the roster will create Poll Everywhere participant profiles for new students and add them to your Poll Everywhere participant group, while also removing any students that dropped the course.
When Auto Roster Sync is enabled, your course roster will automatically sync on a nightly basis. You can also sync the roster immediately through your Poll Everywhere Participants page.
Sync Rosters from the Courses page
Step 1: Navigate to your Participants page and select Courses.
Step 2: From the LMS courses screen, you will see all of the courses you have connected with the Poll Everywhere LTI Advantage integration. From here, you can click Sync Roster next to the specific course.
Note: To sync course rosters, Enable Roster Sync must be On. You can click the toggle button to turn on/off. When On, your rosters will automatically sync on a nightly-basis.
Step 3: To sync all of your courses, select Sync Rosters.
Note: Only courses that have Enable Roster Sync on will update.
Sync All Course Rosters from the Participants page
You can sync all of your course rosters by clicking Sync All Rosters. Courses that have enabled roster sync will be updated.
Exporting a Gradebook report into Moodle
Exporting grades from Poll Everywhere to the university’s Moodle LMS saves educators time by letting them quickly record how students respond to their activities. The following instructions will walk you through the process of exporting graded responses to Moodle.
Step 1: Go to the Poll Everywhere Participants page, then select Courses.
Step 2: Select the name of the course you’d like to create a Gradebook report with.
Step 3: From this page you can create a new Gradebook report, or choose a Gradebook that you have already created for this LMS course.
Note: You cannot edit the activities within a Gradebook report, but choosing a previously created report will allow you to update and re-export the results.
Step 4: In the new modal, select the Poll Everywhere questions you want to add to the gradebook report, then click Finish to create your report.
Step 5: Once the report is created, select the Export button on the bottom right corner of the page.
Step 6: Choose ‘Grade’ in the pop-up that will appear and then click ‘Next’.
This will export the Gradebook report to a Moodle gradebook column. It may take several minutes to complete this report depending on the number of responses and number of questions in the Gradebook report. When it’s finished, the report will appear in Moodle’s gradebook automatically.