External tool activity in Moodle (video)

You can link external sites to your Moodle, Sites which allow connection to Moodle in this way are known as LTI compliant and are called Tool provider. Here is a list of that sites

In a Moodle course, when clinking in 'Add an activity or resource' you can add an 'External tool' activity.


An administrator can configure external tools in Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Manage Activities. Once there click in 'Settings' in the 'External tools' row so that they are available across the site.

There you can see an interface and clicking int the help icon you can read as follows...

External tools allow Moodle users to seamlessly interact with learning resources hosted remotely. Through a special launch protocol, the remote tool will have access to some general information about the launching user. For example, the institution name, course id, user id, and other information such as the user's name or e-mail address.

Tool types listed on this page are separated into three categories:

Active - These tool providers have been approved and configured by an administrator. They can be used from within any course on this Moodle instance. If a consumer key and shared secret are entered, a trust relationship is established between this Moodle instance and the remote tool, providing a secure communication channel.
Pending - These tool providers came in through a package import, but have not been configured by an administrator. Teachers may still use tools from these providers if they have a consumer key and shared secret, or if none is required.
Rejected - These tools providers are flagged as ones which an administrator has no intention of making available to the entire Moodle instance. Teachers may still use tools from these providers if they have a consumer key and shared secret, or if none is required.

After the external tools are configured in teh above section, if you go to a course and click in 'Add an activity or resource' you can add an 'External tool' activity as in the following video...

To add an  external tool will be very useful in order to  take advance of the huge amount of external resources online.

More information in the Moodle comunity...
External tool settings
Using External tool


Used Moodle 2.7

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