After12 months of refinement and testing, the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Advantage was realised to the public in April 2019. The LTI Advantage standard prescribes a way to easily and securely connect learning applications and tools with platforms like learning management systems (LMS), portals and learning object repositories on your premise or in the cloud, in a secure and standard manner and without the need for expensive custom programming. LTI Advantage is a package of key LTI extensions that build on LTI v1.3 to implement features that support teaching and learning activities, such as the provisioning of users and roles so a tool can intelligently address the learner on launch, and the sharing of assignments from a platform to an assessment tool and the subsequent scores back to a central gradebook.
James, Software Standards Architect at IMS and responsible for many of the technical aspects of the LTI Advantage specification, will give a beginners guide to LTI Advantage. This is an excellent opportunity to learn the basics of LTI Advantage and to gain an awareness of the extensive toolkit support that IMS provides for those wishing to adopt this new version.
