Moodle LTI 1.3 Integration - Adding SL&L activities to a Moodle course

1. Log in to your Moodle faculty account and navigate to your Course homepage.
2. Click Add an Activity or Resource (make sure Editing is turned on).

3. Select the External tool option.

   

4. Enter an Activity Name of your choice for the LMS assignment.
5. Go to the Preconfigured tool dropdown and select the SL&L tool.

6. Leave the Tool URL field blank

   

7. Expand the Grade section and enter the maximum possible points for the assignment in the Points Possible field. Note: SL&L and Moodle do NOT need to have the same points possible. A percentage calculation from the SL&L activity will be entered in the Moodle Results Center.

   

8. Click on the Save and return to course button.

9. Click on the activity link you created on the Course homepage.

10. A new tab will open. Choose the Specific Activity option.

    

11. Choose a section and activity from SL&L, and click SELECT & SAVE in the upper right corner of the page.

    

12. A success message will be displayed on the page. Click RETURN TO LMS. Clicking the link in your Moodle course will now take you directly to the SL&L activity.

    

Disconnecting a SL&L activity from a Moodle assignment

1. Navigate to the activity in SL&L as either an instructor or administrator
2. Click the "more options" button (three dots) on the right side of the page
3. Click "Disconnect LMS Link"

Using Deep Linking to Bulk Create and Link Moodle Assignments to SL&L Activities

Once you have enabled Deep Linking for your LTI 1.3 integration between Moodle and SL&L, your Moodle Course Admins and Moodle Course Instructors can begin to use it to bulk create and link Moodle assignments based on SL&L activities.

The Moodle Course Admins and Moodle Course Instructors can access the Deep Linking workflow from their Moodle Course by following the steps provided below:

1. Login to your Moodle faculty account and navigate to your Course home page.

2. Click "Add an Activity or Resource" (make sure Editing is turned on).

3. In the Activities area, you will see an icon/tile titled External tool and another icon/tile with the same title as your Moodle integration set up for SL&L (you can reach out to your Moodle Administrator to know about the title of the integration set up for SL&L that has Deep Linking enabled).
   

4. For ease of access later, you can star the External tool tile and the tile for your Moodle integration set up for SL&L, which will make them appear in the Starred area.
   

    

5. Select the tile for your Moodle integration set up for SL&L and click the Select content button under the text box for the Activity name field, which will open SL&L’s Deep Linking workflow page in a pop up.

    

6. In the pop up displaying SL&L’s Deep Linking workflow page you will be able to view a paginated list of activities (20 activities per page) from the course sections that you have access to in SL&L.
   

    

   1. If you are an administrator in SL&L, you will see a list of activities from open course sections that belong to the hierarchy nodes to which you have access.

   2. If you are an instructor in SL&L, you will see a list of activities from the open course sections for which you an the instructor.

   3. The list only includes activities that have been published, but are not linked to any LMS assignment.

7. You can filter the list of activities in the following ways:

   1. By searching based on Activity Title, Course Code, and Section Name.

   2. Using the View drop-down: This drop-down enables you to filter the list of activities based on three options.
      

       

      3. Activities from all sections: Selecting this option displays a list of published, but unlinked activities from all open course sections that you have access to in SL&L.
         

          

         Note: If you do not have access to any open course sections as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course Instructor OR if no published activities have been created in the open course sections that you have access to as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course Instructor OR if all activities from the open course that you have access to as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course are already linked to an LMS assignment, an empty state message will be displayed.

          

      4. Activities from matched sections: Selecting this option displays a list of published, but unlinked activities from course sections that you have access to in SL&L, which match the Moodle Course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name.

         
         
         Note: From among the open course sections to which you have access as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course Instructor, if there are no course sections that match the Moodle course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name OR if no published activities have been created in the course sections that match the Moodle course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name OR if all published activities from the course sections that match the Moodle course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name are already linked to an LMS assignment, an empty state message will be displayed if you select the Activities from matched sections option.

         

          

      5. Selected Activities: Selecting this option displays a list of activities that you have selected after accessing the Deep Linking workflow page.
         

         Note: If you have not made any selections on the Deep Linking workflow page, an empty state message will be displayed if you select the Selected Activities option.
         
         
         When you access the Deep Linking workflow page, if there is an SL&L Course Section or Course Sections that match the Moodle Course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name, the list will display activities from the matched Course Section or Course Sections by default i.e. the View drop-down on the page will default to the option Activities from matched sections.

8. Search and select the activities that you would like to create and link as Moodle Assignments.

9. Click the Add Activities button.

NOTE: The selected SL&L activities will be created as assignments in the Moodle Course and the created Moodle assignments would also be linked to the corresponding SL&L activities.

NOTE: An SL&L activity that is linked to a Moodle assignment using Deep Linking would display the value Connected for the LMS Connection: field ONLY AFTER the SL&L activity is accessed through the linked Moodle assignment at least once.

NOTE: To completely unlink an SL&L activity from its linked Moodle assignment:

• First use the Disconnect LMS Link option for the SL&L activity.

• Then, delete the Moodle assignment that was linked to the SL&L activity.