Document is currently in draft mode - if you have questions about LTI that aren't answered here, please ask them in the #ra-reserves slack channel
Purpose
The LTI connector allows for libraries to connect their institution's learning management system (LMS) - like Sakai, Blackboard or Canvas - to the FOLIO Courses app.
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In Settings → Courses LTI tool, you create a new LTI platform connection for each LMS you are connecting to. It's recommended that you work with your learning management team to determine configure the LTI tool in the LMS and provide the appropriate settings for a connection to your institution's LMSinformation to use in FOLIO.
Fields include
- Issuer
- The site that issues the LTI connection information. E.g., https://lms.myschool.edu
- Issuers can issue more than one client ID.
- Client ID
- JWKS URL
- JSON webkey endpoint - your LMS manager can help you figure this out
- OIDC Authentication URL
- Open ID Connect URL - part of LTI authentication that your LMS manager can help you figure out
- Public Search URL
The public search URL will be used for creating links when no electronic access is defined for the reserved item. Some variables can be inserted into the URL, e.g., https://find.mylibrary.edu?query=[BARCODE]. The supported variables are:
- [BARCODE] - The item's barcode
- [INSTANCE_HRID] - The instance's HRID
- CSS URL
The tool renders its contents in an iframe, so parent styling is ignored. To style the tool's output, enter the URL of a CSS file here and the iframe will fetch and apply it in a <link>.
When a course has no current reserves, this message will be displayed.
This message box does take html, but you need to put it in the HTML to have it work, e.g., if you want your message to show as "please contact us at www.library.edu", your entry in the "No Reserves" message box would be
Code Block please contact us at <a href="www.library.edu">www.library.edu</a>
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