7.20.3 Learning Management System (LMS) Integration
Figure 7.28: Learning Management System (LMS) Integration
You can set up Single Sign On (SSO) by integrating ALEKS with your
school Learning Management System (LMS). This will allow instructors
and students to link from your LMS to ALEKS without having to remember
separate login names and passwords. It will also remove the need to
share Class Codes by letting the LMS feed class information directly
to ALEKS. LMS integration is available for all ALEKS Higher Ed classes.
ALEKS is a Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) 1.1 compliant Tool
Provider. Your school can integrate ALEKS with any LTI compliant
LMS. It is a two-part process, which involves Part 1 - logging into
ALEKS to obtain the LTI parameters - and Part 2 - logging into the
school's LMS to input the parameters.
Part 1 - Obtain Parameters. After logging into
ALEKS in the Advanced Instructor Module, administrators click on
the "All instructors" folder. From the Home tab, click on the "LMS
Integration" link. You will arrive at the Learning Management System
(LMS) page. To obtain the parameters for the college, use the
drop-down menu to select the LMS that the college is using or
the mode of integration. If your LMS is not listed, you can integrate
ALEKS with any LTI compliant LMS by selecting "Basic LTI/LTI 1.1"
from the list as your mode of integration.
If you wish to integrate your LMS with ALEKS using McGraw-Hill (MH)
Campus, a service that allows instructors using a LMS to have access to
McGraw-Hill educational materials within their LMS, select MH Campus
from the list.
After making a selection in the drop-down menu, the parameters for the
selected LMS or mode of integration will appear on the screen.
Enabling LMS Gradebook Integration will allow instructors
to synchronize the overall score for each student in their ALEKS
gradebook with their LMS gradebook. Review the parameters carefully
and then click on the "Save" button. This will complete the first part
of the integration.
Part 2 - Configure a School's LMS with
ALEKS. Administrators now log into their college's
LMS to configure the integration with ALEKS using the parameters
obtained from the ALEKS "LMS Integration" page. Some of the LMS
selections will show one or more "?" icons on the page. Clicking on a
"?" will open a pop-up with additional instructions.
Once the setup between the LMS and ALEKS is complete, instructors
and students can pair their LMS accounts and classes with their ALEKS
classes. For detailed instructions on institution, instructor, class,
and student pairing, please visit the ALEKS Training Center.
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