The UCF LTI Installation Process for Webcourses Instructors

Many instructors have adopted materials for their classes that have non-UCF web components. These materials add a richness of content to a course and learning activities for students. Oftentimes these course materials adopted from vendors have an integration available that will work with Webcourses online class. Webcourses supports the industry standard called “Learning Technologies Interoperability (LTI) integrations.”

An LTI can bring some enhanced fucntionality to your Webcourses@UCF course. This functionality may include single sign-on (SSO), grade passback and deep linking.

• Single Sign-on
  • Allows users (instructors and students) to seamlessly and automatically pass from Webcourses into the vendor’s system.
  • Eliminates the need for users to remember a separate set of login credentials.
• Gradepassback
  • Grades for assignments completed by students in the vendor system automatically transfer into the Webcourses gradebook for your course in a secure, FERPA compliant manner.
  • Eliminates the need to either manually transfer grades or to download a grade file and upload it into Webcourses.
• Deep linking of materials into your Webcourses@UCF course
  • Allows instructors to link students to specific sections of content in the vendor system.

(Please note: Actual functionality will vary from vendor to vendor.)

You will need to contact your vendor representative (or the vendor support email address or phone number) to see if there is an LTI integration available.

Your vendor might be able to help you install the LTI integration directly into your course by yourself.

If you need more assistance, you can contact Webcourses@UCF Support for questions. If you are ready to proceed with an LTI integration request with assistance of CDL, you can open a Support Ticket. Working with CDL to install this type of integration requires some information to be provided to Support.

We’ll need the following information:

1. Name of the vendor
2. Name of the tool / product to be integrated
3. Contact information for the vendor
   including any vendor representatives you might be working with
4. Any other information you have about the tool

CDL works with the UCF Information Security Office (ISO) and the Privacy Office to vet vendors and the tools for FERPA and security considerations (called the VRM process). There is some paperwork involved in this vetting process. Specifically, UCF requires vendors to complete the Secure Handling of UCF Data agreement.
If students pay the vendor directly by credit card for the products / materials, the ISO also requires a PCI Addendum to be provided from the vendor from their credit card processing service.

There is some other, optional documentation that vendors might be able to provide to UCF. This information might include a privacy statement, security policy statement, a HECVAT security self evaluation, etc.

This vetting process takes time. At a minimum you should allow one month to complete this process before we can install the integration. This process can take longer, depending on the timeliness of the responses from the vendor, and any concerns from the ISO and Privacy offices needing to be resolved.

Additionally, please understand that some times during the semester are busier than others and processing can be delayed due to semester start up activities or final exams.

If you have any questions about this process, please contact Webcourses@UCF Support.

Visit https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/webcourses
Open a Webcourses@UCF Support Ticket
Email webcourses@ucf.edu
Call 407-823-0407