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EchoVideo: Creating a LTI 1.1 Integration with Blackboard

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BUILDING BLOCK END-OF-LIFE ANNOUNCEMENT

As of 30 Dec 2024, the Anthology (Blackboard) Building Block has officially reached its end of life for use with EchoVideo.

Prior to the end-of-life date of December 30th, 2024, all Building Block content must have been converted to LTI 1.1 Deep Links. For more information from Anthology, please see Convert Building Block Content to LTI.
For more information from us, please see Building Block to LTI Migration Overview and Converting Blackboard Building Block Content to LTI 1.1 Deep Links.
NOTE that while migrating to LTI 1.3 may appear to be an option within Blackboard, it has not been fully tested by us. We are only supporting migrating to LTI 1.1.

The instructions below will add EchoVideo as an LTI 1.1 Tool Provider in Blackboard. The configuration values given for the tool provider are propagated to the Placements created later.

These procedures must be performed by an LMS Administrator.

To add EchoVideo as an LTI Provider

  1. Log in to Blackboard as a system administrator.
  2. Open the Administrator Panel, then select LTI Tool Providers (located in the Integrations group).
    System Admin panel with LTI Tool Providers link identified for steps as described
  3. Select Register LTI 1.1 Provider.
    LTI Tool Providers page with navigation shown for steps as described
  4. In the Provider Domain field, enter the base EchoVideo URL for your region as follows:
    • For US users: echo360.org
    • For UK users: echo360.org.uk
    • For ANZ users: echo360.net.au
    • For CA users: echo360.ca
      Register Provider Domain form in Blackboard with fields as described
  5. In the Default Configuration section of the page, do the following: (see also the best practice note below)
    • Select Set globally.
    • For Tool Provider Key, copy and paste the Consumer Key value from the Blackboard LTI 1.1 profile in EchoVideo.
    • For Tool Provider Secret, copy and paste the Shared Secret value from the Blackboard LTI 1.1 Profile in EchoVideo.
      Register Provider Domain form in Blackboard with fields as described

      It may be more appropriate for your institution to set the Default Configuration to Set separately for each link. In this case, the Tool Provider Key and Tool Provider Secret are simply pasted into the Placement for each tool provider, rather than these fields being inherited from the tool provider as shown in our Create Course Placement instructions.

  6. In the Institution Policies section of the screen, do the following:
    • Select Send user data only over SSL.
    • Enable all three checkboxes in User Fields to Send. These are required to auto-register/auto-enroll users in EchoVideo sections:
      Register Provider Domain form in Blackboard with fields as described
      • Role in Course (may be labeled Constituency in course)
      • Name
      • Email Address
  7. Click Submit.

EchoVideo is now an LTI 1.1 Tool Provider and can now have "placements" created for adding to Blackboard courses:

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