Badgr Pathways LTI App for Moodle
The Badgr Pathways LTI app allows Moodle instructors to add Badgr Pathways to courses. Instructors can view group or individual progress along the learning pathway. Students are able to see their own individual progress and are provided with a roadmap of their learning journey. Badgr Pathways can be constructed using Open Badges from any platform and/or issuer.
Prerequisites
- Ensure you are enrolled as a teacher in the Moodle course.
- Define an issuer in Badgr before creating the Badgr Pathway.
- Define the set of badges that will be used for the Pathway.
- Create and publish a Badgr Pathway.
- Create an LTI for the desired Pathway.
A single pathway can be added to multiple courses and/or multiple pathways can be added to a single course.Installing the Badgr Pathways LTI is easy!
Badgr Pathways gives teachers and students an easy-to-use view of their progress through a pathway right in their Moodle courses.
- From your issuer dashboard in Badgr Pathways, find the pathway you want to add to your course and select LTI Integrations.
- Complete the install by copying the key and secret from Pathways into Moodle. See below for details.
Step-by-Step: How to Install
- Sign in to the Badgr server of your choice and select an issuer profile or create a new one.
- Select the Manage Pathways button from the Issuer detail page. Alternatively, you may use the Apps menu in Badgr to connect to Pathways.
- A new window will open to the Pathways app. If you are prompted to log in or authorize, please do so.
- Once logged in, you will be taken to the "My Issuers" area in the Pathways app.
- Select the issuer that manages the pathway you wish to add to your course.
- Select the ellipses that correspond with the pathway you wish to add to your course.
- Choose LTI Integrations.
- From the LTI Integrations page, you can manage or add a new integration. Select Add Integration to create a new installation.
- Give your new integration a meaningful name and select the type of integration you are creating (Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle).
- In another tab, go to the desired Moodle account, sub-account, or course and Turn Editing On.
Select Add an Activity or Resource, then select External Tool.
Copy and paste the Consumer Key, Consumer Secret (Shared Secret), and Config URL presented in the Badgr Pathways dialog box into your Moodle integration. Copy the name or fill out a name you won't forget.
- Once the information is entered, select Save.
- Observe the new menu item, Pathways, in the course navigation along the left side. Click this item to view your pathway.
Students who access the Pathways menu in a course will automatically be subscribed to the Pathway.
Troubleshooting
There are a few error messages you may encounter if the LTI app is not added correctly.
1. If the config.xml URL does not work with your LMS, try using this URL instead https://pathways.badgr.io/api/lti/spg/launch
2. If the Config URL is used in the Secure Tool URL, you will see this Unexpected Server Error.
2. If the consumer key and secret are incorrect or entered in the wrong fields, "Loading Pathways..." will be displayed but will not produce any results.
Moodle Push to Backpack on Non-US servers
Moodle's push to backpack feature, which automatically uploads Moodle badges into the user's Badgr backpack, does not currently support non-US servers (Selecting a Badgr Server Location). Here are some options we currently recommend to non-US users.
- Teachers use a US Badgr account, and request that students create US server accounts using login URL https://badgr.com/auth/login.
- Students create a Badgr account in their home server (EU, AU, CA) and manually upload badges. These articles will help students with the process: Uploading non-Badgr Badges, Transferring badges to an account on a different server.
- Modify the Moodle database table to reflect your home server following the notes in this Moodle support thread link: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-66585 Note, this option may cease to work when Moodle makes a code update.
We also strongly recommend that users visit, comment, and upvote the above Moodle support article to let Moodle know you wish to see them support Badgr on non-US servers.
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