External tools

The external tool activity in Totara lets you incorporate content from external LTI tool providers. LTI stands for Learning Tools Interoperability, which is a standard for developing and integrating external learning applications with a learning pla...

Instead of just adding an external tool to a course , you may want to add a tool at the site level to make it available for other users to use elsewhere on the site. Totara supports LTI 1.0, LTI 1.1, LTI 1.3, LTI 2.0 and the LTI Advantage extens...

Managing external tools As a Site Administrator you can add and manage site-wide external tools, that is tools that will be made available for everyone to use. To access these settings from the quick-access menu go to  Plugins > Activity modules > ...

When adding an external tool to a course you can configure the following settings and custom parameters. External tool settings Custom parameters As an example you could have three parameters like this: acme_tool_user_fullname = $Person....