Moodle - DropThought LTI Integration Instructor Role

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1 Moodle - DropThought LTI Integration Instructor Role Table of Contents 1.0 Sign up For DropThought, Whether for Testing or Actual Use 2.0 If you do not have admin rights to add LTI tools to your Moodle course, send this link to your LMS Admin 3.0 Add DropThought as a tool in your course LMS page (Instructor Role) 4.0 Troubleshooting (Two Welcome Letter s for the Same Course) 1 of 5

2 1.0 Sign up For DropThought, Whether for Testing or Actual Use Sign up can be done through the QM Study DropThought Signup Page or Through DropThought s Open Enrollment Signup Page 1. Sign up, either or a. For the QM study go to b. For DropThought Open Enrolment go to signup.dropthought.com/ 2. Fill in info. If you are doing feasibility testing, fill in any info. Just make sure that the instructor entered in the signup page matches the instructor in the course. 3. Read welcome (sent to the instructor addresses provided in sign up form) a. This will contain i. Private group code: This code is for students to enter into the DropThought mobile app (for leaving class feedback on their mobile devices) ii. Consumer Auth Key: This key is used during the DropThought integrations in LMSs. It is inserted in the Tool provider Key field as shown in the instructions here. iii. DropThought Dashboard login credentials: These credentials are used to log in to the dashboard that receives feedback from mobile devices using the private group code contained in the Welcome Letter. It also receives feedback from the DropThought Instant Feedback Widget that students access through assignments in their schools LMS. 2.0 If you do not have admin rights to add LTI tools to your Moodle course, send this link to your LMS Admin 1. Link to send to your LMS Admin 2. If you do have rights to add LTI tools to your own course, use the link to set up DropThought 2 of 5

3 3.0 Add DropThought as a tool in your course LMS page (Instructor Role) Global level LTI integration can be done by the Administrator. This makes the DropThought LTI tool available for adding to courses at the instructor level. The instructors need to add DropThought for each instance they would like it used within their courses. LTI can not be added within the assignment or inside the assignment, it only can be added as a stand alone assignment. Hence if and instructor has an assignment called Activity 1 and the instructor would like DropThought Feedback on that assignment, he/she will need to add a new stand alone assignment called Activity 1 Feedback or Activity 1 Reflection and add DropThought to it as an external LTI tool. 1. Login as a Admin/Teacher 2. Go to Home > Courses > (Course Name) and click the Turn editing on button from the right top corner 3. Click on the Add an activity or resource link. 3 of 5

4 4. Select an External Tool option and click the Add button from the popup window. 5. Please enter the following options, a. Activity Name (Name of the activity. It can be anything as you wish, e.g. Activity 1 Reflection) b. Tool Base URL ( LTI tool URL tool.dropthought.com/education/tool.php) c. From the Show more option, i. Consumer Key (The Consumer Key is found under the Consumer Auth Key in the Welcome Letter from Dropthought. ii. Shared Secret is dropthought d. From the Privacy option, i. Check all the options. e. Click on the Save and display. 4 of 5

5 Note: After adding DropThought, the instructor will not see the DropThought Instant Feedback Widget. In the Widget s place is a congratulations message to let the instructor know that the widget was added successfully. The instructor would have to login as a student or view the page in student view in order to view the Widget on the feedback page. 4.0 Troubleshooting (Two Welcome Letter s for the Same Course) 1. In case the LMS instructor was different than DropThought Sign up instructor during the sign up process. a. Background on why two welcome letter s appear i. A DropThought Dashboard is automatically created for every unique pairing of instructor address and school name, whether that pairing is submitted to DropThought through a DropThought Signup Page or pulled from the LMS when DropThought is used as an external tool feedback assignment in your class. So, if a different instructor address is used in the DropThought signup sheet than the instructor address listed for the class in the LMS (even though it was intended that, different dashboards would be created for each unique pairing. b. Which welcome letter has the right credentials? i. If this occurs use, credentials listed in the welcome letter sent after your first DropThought assignment is created rather than the original one sent after the signup sheet. c. My new correct DropThought dashboard doesn't have the mobile app feedback channel, how do I add it? i. Return to the signup sheet ii. Enter in the same class sign up info as before, except this time use same address by which you are registered as the instructor in your LMS. iii. If you are unsure which address that is, check the header on your second welcome letter from DropThought (after you created a feedback assignment in the LMS). iv. You will receive a thrid welcome letter after filling out the signup page again. As long as you use the same instructor address as in the LMS, Dropthought will add the mobile app feedback channel to the correct DropThought Dashboard for your class. 5 of 5