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      LTI Questions and Answers

      What are the Lumen External Tool/LTI Apps?

      Lumen supports 3 types of courses with the following configurations:

      • Waymaker:
          • Lumen Platform (basic launch LTI)
          • Lumen Waymaker (used for the Study Plan functionality)
          • Lumen OHM (used for calculations in courses like Microeconomics)
      • Candela: Lumen Platform only
      • Lumen OHM: Lumen OHM only

      Is the LTI key/secret unique to an institution, domain, or course?

      • Our LTI allows you to access the appropriate domain (e.g. courses.lumenlearning.com, ohm.lumenlearning.com) for the particular course.

      • When you add the External Tool at the Admin/System Level, it allows the course cartridge import to automatically connect and verify access thereby providing a relatively seamless experience for the teacher and student.

      • The LTI key/secret is unique to the institution, and we want it to match all *.lumenlearning.com domains. D2L requires specific sub-domain entries, so we use the same key/secret for each External Tool.

      Do you send grade values back?

      It depends on the type of course (Waymaker and Lumen OHM = Yes, Candela = No)

      Do you provide a course cartridge (import package) for every course? Is the cartridge unique to a course?

      • The number of cartridges and their need to be unique depends on whether teachers are adopting or adapting (e.g. editing) a course.

      • Candela courses are generally a ThinCC.

      • Waymaker courses are delivered as native course cartridges, depending on the LMS (e.g. Brightspace/D2L gets a Brightspace/D2L course file, Blackboard a Blackboard course file, and so it goes...)

      How does Lumen use the Security Fields?

      • Send user ID to tool provider: This is the unique ID we use to determine who the user is across multiple LTI launches.

      • Send user name to tool provider: The teacher has a dashboard that shows each student's progress and scores and the student's name.

      • Send user email to tool provider: The teacher can choose to send emails to the students via Waymaker about questions they missed on their quizzes.

      • Send system username to tool provider: This is not directly used. It is useful in cases of debugging problems since this is usually a human-readable unique identifier for a user.

      • Send system Org Defined ID to tool provider: We use this for scoping permissions and data to a school.

      • Send system role to tool provider: Admins, teachers, and students have different interfaces and permissions. We base that on their role in the LMS. If no role is sent we assume they shouldn't have access.