Moodle : Using Digital Samba as an LTI external tool

Adding Digital Samba as an external tool

On your Digital Samba Dashboard :

• The LTI external tool will use your default room settings.

• You should set available roles to Teachers & Students & make Students default role.

Digital Samba default room settings

• You can configure the rest of your default room settings to suit your requirements.

On Moodle :

• Log into your Moodle LMS instance as an Admin.

• Navigate to Site Administration > Plug-ins > Activity modules > External Tool > Manage tools

• In the Add tool area – enter https://lti.digitalsamba.com/lti/1.3/register and click the Add LTI Advantage button.

• This will dynamically register Digital Samba as an LTI external tool on your LMS.

• Once this is done – you will see the Digital Samba tool in a pending state.

• Click on the three lines ( Tool Configuration details ) and send this information back to us so that we can enable your LMS on our side.

Moodle tool configuration details

• Once you have confirmation back from us that your LMS is enabled, click the Activate button.

• You may want to adjust a couple of settings within the tool to make best use of it.

• To access these click the Settings cog :

1. Make the Digital Samba tool available in the moodle Activity chooser :

   • For Tool configuration usage > Select the ‘Show as preconfigured tool when adding an external tool’ option.

   

   Tool configuration usage

2. Use LMS users names in Digital Samba rooms

   • In the Privacy section :

   • For Share launcher's name with tool select Always

   

   Share LMS name in external tool

Congratulations! You are now ready to use Digital Samba rooms in your LMS course!

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Using Digital Samba as an external tool in an LMS course

• Go to My courses.

• Enter ‘Edit Mode’ and click on the three dots to create a new course.

New course

• Fill in Course details as per your usual process and click Save and display.

• In desired section of your couse click on the Add an Activity or resource button.

Add activity or resource

• Select Digital Samba from the activity/resource chooser

Activity and resource chooser

• Give the Activity a name and fill out any other settings as per your normal processes.

• Click Save and return to course.

• You can then enroll users in the course.

• Roles assigned here will be reflected in the room with the permissions assigned to the Student and Teacher roles in your Digital Samba Dashboard.

Enroll users in course

• Your teachers and students will then be able to join the room whenever it is time for class!

Join the Digital Samba class