TABLE OF CONTENTS
Getting Set Up in Blackboard
Have your Organization's Blackboard Admin submit a Help Desk Ticket
LTI 1.3 must be installed by the OER Commons or Site Administrator and the LMS (Blackboard) Administrator. It can’t be installed by teachers or course managers. For more information about LTI 1.3’s security features, refer to Why Platforms and Tools Should Adopt LTI 1.3 by IMS Global.
Installing and Configuring the App in Blackboard
As the LMS Administrator, an OER Commons or Site Administrator will provide you with the Blackboard LTI 1.3 Client ID and these instructions. Follow these steps to create a new LTI Tool in Blackboard Classic or Ultra. (We provide Ultra instructions and screen captures when they differ from Classic.)
As the LMS Administrator, log in to Blackboard Classic and select the System Admin tab in the top navigation. (In Blackboard Ultra, select Admin from the left navigation.)
Classic:
Ultra:
On the Systems Admin screen, find Integrations, and then select LTI Tool Providers.
On the LTI Tool Providers screen, select Register LTI 1.3/Advantage Tool.
Enter the Client ID provided by the OER Commons or Site administrator, and select Submit.
On the Modify LTI 1.3 Tool screen, in the Tool Status section, notice that the fields for Deployment ID, Initiate Login URL, Tool Redirect URLs, JWKS URL, and Domain are autopopulated. (Name and Description will be different than shown here.) Please copy the Deployment ID from this screen and send it to your site Administrator, who will complete the tool setup. (Don’t send a screen capture.) Also, copy the Tool Redirect URL, which you will need to create a placement for the tool later in these instructions.
On the Modify LTI 1.3 Tool screen, the fields in the Tool Status and Institution Policies sections are also populated with the default values shown below. Keep the default settings, with the exception of Name, which is not required. Note that Allow grade service access must be set to Yes, because the LTI tool is not integrated with the Blackboard gradebook.
When you are finished on this screen, select Submit.
To find the Deployment ID or Tool Redirect URL later:
Go to System Admin (Admin in Ultra) find Integrations, and then select LTI Tool Providers.
On the LTI Tool Providers screen, search the alphabetical list for the tool.
Hover on the tool name to display the dropdown menu arrow.
Select the arrow and select Edit from the dropdown menu.
Create a Placement for LTI 1.3 Tool
Follow these steps to make the installed LTI tool visible to instructors in Blackboard so they can add content to their courses. As the LMS Administrator, you can decide when to do this step. The tool will only work after the OER Commons or Site Administrator completes the configuration using the Deployment ID.
Go to System Admin (Admin in Ultra) find Integrations, and then select LTI Tool Providers.
On the LTI Tool Providers screen, search the alphabetical list for the tool.
Hover on the tool name to display the dropdown menu arrow.
Select the arrow and select Manage Placements from the dropdown menu.
On the Manage Placements screen, select Create Placement.
In the Label field, enter the tool name.
In the Handle field, enter your desired UUID.
In the Type section, keep the default selection for Deep Linking content tool.
In the Target Link URI field, enter the Tool Redirect URL that you copied from Step 5 or Step 8 of the previous section called Installing and Configuring the App in Blackboard.
Select Submit. As soon as the OER Commons or Site Administrator completes the configuration in the microsite, instructors will be able to access content for their courses.
The completed Managed Placement screen.
After the Site Administrator notifies you that the tool is configured, let your instructors know the tool name that you chose so they can access the tool to add content to their courses.
Common Questions
What does the LTI Tool do?
The LTI 1.3 tool allows any educator to find learning activities that have been published to Featured Collections on your site, and embed them within assignments, modules, or other Blackboard pages. If educators are members of Groups or already have a Personal Account account on your site where they have been authoring or curating content, educators will be able to access and embed content from Group Shared Folders and personal My Items libraries using this tool.
Do I need an existing account on this site to use the LTI Tool?
When a course instructor launches the LTI tool, a new account will be automatically generated if the instructor doesn't already have one. This gives the Instructor access to all Featured Collections.
If I do have an existing account on this site, how do I connect it to my Blackboard account?
If a user has previously created an account on the platform, and then later launches the LTI Tool in the LMS, the user will be asked for a one-time identity verification to confirm linking their accounts. The user should click the Link Accounts button to verify their identity.
For example, the user will see a message that looks similar to the message below:
How do Students Access Content?
Account information for student users is not collected or stored. Instead, students have view-only access to content that their instructors have embedded in Blackboard courses.
How Do I use the LTI Tool?
Below are preview images of the content provided by the LTI tool. When an instructor adds a new activity using the LTI tool, the instructor will be able to search and browse items in Featured Collections, their own personal saved My Items, and their Group folders.
This screen shows what browsing My Collections looks like in the LTI 1.3 tool.
This screen shows what browsing My Items looks like in the LTI 1.3 tool.
This screen shows what browsing My Group folders looks like in the LTI 1.3 t