Moodle Admin - LTI 1.0/1.1 Tool Provider set up

LTI 1.0/1.1

As a Moodle administrator to use the ScoreCenter feature, you need to register with SoftChalk and configure the ScoreCenter for your system.

1. Please contact help@softchalk.com and provide the following information to register with SoftChalk and receive authentication credentials (i.e. an OAuth Consumer Key and an OAuth Consumer Secret).
   
   If you have a test server and a production server, you may send us two LMS URLs and we will register both of them. (You will receive a separate email with a unique key and secret for each registered URL.)
   a.    Your institution name
   b.    LMS URL
   c.    First Name (optional) of the person registering with us
   d.    Last Name (optional) of the person registering with use.
   e.    Email for this registration (the email can be a specific person’s email or a generic email such as lmsadmin@myinstitution.edu)

2. After registering, you will receive an email from SoftChalk with information to enter into your Moodle system (see the following steps).

3. Log into Moodle. At the left under the Settings area, choose Site Administration/Plugins/Activity Modules/LTI/ Manage external tool types (see below.)

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4. Click Add external tool configuration (see below).

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5. For the Tool Name, enter SoftChalk Cloud. (This name will be easy for your instructors to recognize - see below for a completed screen).

6. For the Tool Base URL, enter https://softchalkcloud.com

7. Copy and paste the consumer key and secret from the SoftChalk email you received after your registered your server. IMPORTANT: Be sure NOT to paste in spaces at the end of the key and secret. (Make sure you do NOT copy the spaces from your email.)

8. Under the Privacy area, for Share launcher’s name with tool choose Always. For Accept grades from the tool choose Always (see below).

9. At the bottom click Save Changes.

10. Test an LTI Link to see that grades go into the Moodle gradebook by following the steps in the section Scored Lessons (Cloud Users). IMPORTANT: As previously mentioned, be sure to LOG OUT of your SoftChalk Cloud account when you are taking your lesson as a student to test out the ScoreCenter feature. (If you are logged into your SoftChalk Cloud account while logged into Moodle and taking a lesson, then the scores won’t be recorded.)