How to Work a LTIHub Assignment

Your professor has assigned to you one or more assignments in your learning management system that are managed by the LTIHub server.

Each assignment has a number of problems. The LTIHub server saves your work. When you are all done, you click a button to send a score to the learning management system.

What's the point? Unfortunately, your learning management system is not built to handle the kind of problems that are most useful for learning complex topics. It can administer multiple choice or fill-in-the blank quizzes, but when it comes to anything more sophisticated, it relies on “external tools”. And it treats each “external tool” as a separate assignment. That makes no sense. You don't want a separate entry in the gradebook for each problem—there would be dozens or hundreds in a semester. You just want one grade for each assignment. That's what LTIHub does. It groups together multiple problems that are beyond the capabilities of your learning management system into a single assignment.

LTIHub provides another benefit. You can leave your work at any time and come back to it later. LTIHub will restore your work.

It's good for you to know how LTIHub works so that you can double-check that it does the right thing, and report issues if something is gummed up.

• Once every minute or so, the web page with the assignment sends updates to LTIHub. You'll see above each problem when the last update was sent. The problem scores that you see are safely stored by the LTIHub server.
• When you click the “Record my score” button, your combined score for all problems is sent to your learning management system. You can click the button as often as you like (unless your professor told you otherwise). You can see the updated score in your gradebook. Be sure to click the button at least once after you are all done with an assignment.
• Your learning management system can only handle a score between 0% and 100%. LTIHub combines the scores from all problems and sends the combined percentage. Your professor will have assigned some maximum number of points for the assignment. In the gradebook, you will see a fraction of that maximum number. Suppose, for example, you have an assignment with two problems. The entire assignment is worth 10 points. You got 50% of the first problem and 100% of the second problem. Your gradebook should show 7.5 points (or maybe 8 points if the learning management system rounds up to whole points).
• LTIHub does not store your personal information. It only knows you by a user ID. That user ID is displayed at the top of the assignment. If there is any issue, please give the ID to your professor.