Re-using activities with LTI - is it a good idea?

Re-using activities with LTI - is it a good idea?

by Christoph Künkel -
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we have a number of courses in moodle 4.5 that share some activities (usually books).  In our old moodle 1.9, we used import to import shared activities to new courses but that obviously was a pain.

I now thought about (actually, ChatGPT was suggesting it wink) using LTI for this. The idea is to publish the shared activities using LTI and then share it wherever needed. So this would be an intra-moodle-server LTI use.

Perhaps someone has already done so and can advise if this would be a good approach (or of course suggest a better approach).  Sharing activities using links doesn't do the trick for example, as students would then leave their course context, which would be confusing to say the least.

Thanks for any advice, 

Christoph

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Re: Re-using activities with LTI - is it a good idea?

by Brett Dalton -
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I wouldn't recommend it as it can greatly complicate trouble shooting in the system. We are currently looking at better methods of sharing and refusing content so hopefully this will be much easier over the coming version. We are in discovery now for one tactical piece and starting to develop a plan around another.
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Re: Re-using activities with LTI - is it a good idea?

by Christoph Künkel -

Thanks for the advice!

So then, we'll be using the old method for the time being.

The new plan will be addressed in 5.x I assume?

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Re: Re-using activities with LTI - is it a good idea?

by Brett Dalton -
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Its on the roadmap and in early discovery but the timeline hasn't been fully defined, but we are targeing some time before Moodle 6.0 .
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