Hire an LTI Consultant/Freelancer?

I'm looking for someone that I can hire to walk me through the basics of building a basic LTI.

I've built a bunch of ideas for my school's own installation of Canvas. However, I would like to get to the point where I can share these ideas with the community and they can use them in their own installations.

Here's a few of the features I have built:

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Canvas Scrolling Side Menu

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Maybe the first "Toy" LTI app that we could create together is getting this interactive triple beam balance that I created for my physics teacher to be an LTI that others could easily plop into their own lessons with a click of a button.

Triple Beam Balance

I work mostly with a Javascript/node/express stack if that matters. If you feel like this is something that you could help with, please feel free to message me.

Best Regards,

Jeremy Bell

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pklove

Hi Jeremy,

There is a nice node.js module that does all the basic LTI heavy lifting: ims-lti - npm

Using this module its quite easy to get a basic LTI up quickly, so you might not need to hire someone in the first instance.

There is a really simple example running at the moment on node at https://lti.kno.nz:8443. You can add this as an LTI using Key/Secret: myschool.edu/letmein

If launched as a basic LTI It just shows the user's name and role. If you launch it as an external assignment it will also post a random score back to the gradebook. I'm happy to share the code if that would help you get started.

I'm wondering if you might be more interested in/need the ContentItem message. The ims-lti module also supports this, although I haven't used it.

Cheers,

Peter

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When building an LTI I always use C#. There are several Nuget packages that people have created to make the process simpler. This is a sample of validating a user. I use the LtiLibrary.AspnetCore Nuget package by andyfmiller.

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UCF has made a few Open Source LTI templates available for everyone at https://github.com/ucfopen so that you can jump right into LTI development.

We have templates available for Python, Ruby, and PHP.

Let me know if you have any questions about getting started with these.

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