Moodle - Coursera Granular Grade Sync Integration over LTI

Coursera course(s) or gradable item(s) that constitute a Coursera course can be integrated into Moodle using LTI 1.3 technology. Once a Coursera course(s) or gradable item(s) is enabled in Moodle environment, following the instructions in this document, users will be able to Single Sign-On to Coursera course(s) or gradable item(s) right from the Moodle learning management system (LMS) and learning results (LTI 1.3 compliant Score objects) can be synced in the form of an aggregate score for a Coursera course(s) or at the level of the gradable item(s) to Moodle LMS.

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General Integration Overview Video

Grade Sync Options Overview Video

LTI Setup for Granular Grade Sync Instructions

General Integration Overview Video

Grade Sync Options Overview Video

LTI Setup for Granular Grade Sync Instructions

Configuring granular grade syncing, School Passport supports two options for a granular sync:

Option A. LMS Instructor is responsible for creating Moodle activities that are LTI deep-linked to the gradable item(s) that constitute a Coursera course. LMS gradebook will be populated with the entry for each deep-linked Moodle activity that corresponds to a gradable item of the Coursera course.

Option B. LMS Instructor will create a single Moodle activity that represents the entire Coursera course. School Passport will populate the LMS gradebook with entries for all gradable item(s) that constitute a given Coursera course.

The integration setup steps are the following:

1. Configure Coursera course as an LTI tool;
2. Publish Coursera courses in your LMS;
3. Access Coursera courses from Moodle;
4. Sync learning results from Coursera to Moodle.

The detailed instructions are given below.

Configuring Coursera Course as an LTI tool

1. Log in to your Moodle website as an Administrator;
2. In the Admin Menu, select Site administration;
3. Navigate to the Plugins tab;
4. Click on the Manage Tools link in the Activity modules section;
5. In the Manage tools window, click on the configure a tool manually link;
   
6. In the External tool configuration section, click on EXPAND ALL to display all settings.
   
7. Enter the following information in the External tool configuration section:
   

• Tool name – Coursera
• Tool URL - https://coursera.gg4l.com/auth/lti/SSO 
• LTI Version: LTI 1.3
• Public key type: Keyset URL
• Public key: https://coursera.gg4l.com/ims/lti/.well-known/jwks.json 
• Initiate login URL: https://coursera.gg4l.com/lti/tools/login_initiations
• Redirection URL(s):
  
  

  if you want to use Option A for granular grade syncing	if you want to use Option B for granular grade syncing
  https://coursera.gg4l.com/auth/lti13/SSO https://api.gg4l.com/datahub/services/ims/lti/v1p3/line_items/deep_link	https://coursera.gg4l.com/auth/lti13/SSO https://api.gg4l.com/datahub/services/ims/lti/v1p3/deep_link

• Tool configuration usage – Show as a preconfigured tool when adding an external tool
• Default launch container - New Window
• Content-Item Message or Supports Deeplinking (Content-Item Message) (click SHOW MORE if this configuration item is not displayed) - Yes
  OR
  
• Content Selection URL:
  
  

  if you want to use Option A for granular grade syncing	if you want to use Option B for granular grade syncing
  https://api.gg4l.com/datahub/services/ims/lti/v1p3/line_items/deep_link	https://api.gg4l.com/datahub/services/ims/lti/v1p3/deep_link

Navigate to the Services section

• IMS LTI Assignment and Grade Services: Use this service for grade sync and column management
• IMS LTI Membership: Use this service to retrieve members’ information as per privacy settings 
• Tool Settings: choose “use this service”.

Navigate to Privacy:

• Share launcher's name with tool: Always
• Share launcher's email with tool: Always
• Accept grades from the tool: Always
• Check Force SSL
  

The Coursera LTI tool is now set up.

Click on VIEW CONFIGURATION DETAILS: Copy and save “Tool configuration details” which are needed for GG4L School Passport configuration. Please, send the values to the GG4L Customer Support before publishing the courses.

Publishing Coursera courses in your LMS

This section describes publishing Coursera Course(s) into a Moodle course.

1. Log in to Moodle as an Instructor/Administrator;
2. Open the course or create a new one;
3. In the dropdown menu select the Turn editing on option:
   
   
4. In the Add an activity or resource window, select External tool, and click ADD:
   
   
5. Click EXPAND ALL;
6. Click on the SHOW MORE button in the General section;
7. Fill in the following fields
   Activity name: Coursera course name
   Activity description: Provide a description
   Display description on the course page: Yes
   Display activity name when launched: Yes
   Display activity description when launched: Yes
   Preconfigured tool: Tool that was created in the "Configuring Coursera Course as an LTI tool" section
   Click the SELECT CONTENT button:
   When Option A is selected. For creating activities that are LTI deep-linked to the gradable item(s) that constitute a Coursera course - choose the Course then choose the line item and click the SUBMIT button.
   
   When Option B is selected. For creating a single activity that represents the entire Coursera course - choose the Coursera program -> course and click the SUBMIT button.
   
   
   Launch container: New window
8. Click on the SAVE AND RETURN TO COURSE button;
9. The Coursera link is displayed in the course.
   
10. Repeat the steps to add the rest of the available Coursera courses.

Accessing Coursera Course(s) or gradable items that constitute a Coursera Course from Moodle

To access the Coursera course an LMS learner/instructor would navigate to a Moodle course and click on the hyperlink that is associated with the corresponding Coursera course.

Once the user is redirected to Coursera for the first time, the user is prompted to complete enrollment:

There are 2 scenarios at this stage:

1. The user already has a Coursera account: the system will ask the user to provide an email address and a password for the existing account:

2. The user is new to Coursera: the system will prompt the user to create a password:

Once the user establishes an association with the Coursera program, they will be navigated to a respective Coursera course page and need to click "Enroll":

 

Syncing learning results from Coursera to Moodle

To examine the learning results from Coursera for learners, who are enrolled in the Moodle course, LMS Instructor needs to use the Grades submenu of the respective LMS course.

Option A

Grades are shown in Moodle when a learner completes the respective course or gradable item in Coursera.

Option B