Canvas LTI Management

Question

If you are an instructional designer at a small private university, and there are four or less instructional designers at the institution, who manages your LTIs (TurnItIn, etc.)? Do you, or does the IT department?

Kerry_Whitehead · Accepted Answer

I am the only Instructional Designer in our department.  We have an LMS administrator that takes care of the heavy-lifting of Canvas.  She takes care of all the courses, student enrollment, LTIs, etc.

DanielLauder · Accepted Answer

I am the only instructional designer at a small community college, I am also the LMS administrator. I work out of the Office of Online Learning. In our office we also have an instructional assistant. The LTI's go through us.

dbrace · Accepted Answer

Hi @jaimie_admin,

I know that you are looking for the perspective of a small private university but I work at a relatively small public two-year community college. I am the main system administrator for Canvas (and a few other systems that we oversee) and work in our Department of Online Learning. I am the main person for fielding technical support issues that arise with Canvas and assist with unstructured (in the moment requests that are not actually "problems") and some structured training opportunities that we have. We also have one instructional designer who is the primary trainer for my Department's sponsored opportunities and leads our Canvas (and online learning) certification process (along with other badges that we offer).

My Department (primary myself) manages our LTIs (a large percentage of them are associated with textbook publishers) but we collaboration with other areas of the institution if they are the area that oversees something: As examples:

* our IT Department manages our web conference platform
* our Educational Support Services Department manages an online tutoring resource
* our Career Development Center manages our portfolio system
* our Bookstore (and third-party store) manages our inclusive textbook access

In short, it is a team effort because of who is responsible for the resource that is external to Canvas.  I hope that you find those examples helpful.

-Doug