What are the differences in how Crowdmark works using the LTI 1.3 Standard workflow vs. the LTI legacy workflow?
Crowdmark provides two ways to integrate with LMS system when using the LTI 1.3 integration:
- A legacy workflow based off the old LTI 1.2 integration
- A newer standard workflow based off our older API integrations
This document will highlight the differences in workflow between the two integration types.
Integrations provide many benefits, including synchronization of information to make assessment administration more efficient. Crowdmark uses integrations to share the following information with LMS systems:
- Courses
- Student roster
- Team members, including their associated roles
- Grades to the LMS gradebook
With both integration types students can sign in to Crowdmark with an email and password here: https://app.crowdmark.com/sign-in.
With the Legacy LTI workflow, students can use their LMS to access Crowdmark via:
- Logging into their school's LMS
- Clicking a LTI link to a Crowdmark assessment
- The student will be logged in to Crowdmark and redirected to the assessment within Crowdmark
With the Standard LTI workflow, the student accesses their Crowdmark course directly from their LMS via an LTI link
- Logging into their school's LMS
- Clicking a LTI link to a Crowdmark
- The student will be logged in to Crowdmark and redirected to the Crowdmark course page
- The student can access their Crowdmark assessments from the Crowdmark course page
Course are created on demand in Crowdmark via an LTI link that is placed in the course in the LMS. THe link will be for a Crowdmark assessment.
Once the assessment link has been added you your course, clicking the link will create a corresponding course in Crowdmark, as well as a Crowdmark account (if you do not already have one). After the course is created on Crowdmark you will be redirected to fill in the details for the assessment.
Course are created on demand in Crowdmark via an LTI link that is placed in the course in the LMS.
Once the link has been added you your course, clicking the link will create a corresponding course in Crowdmark, as well as a Crowdmark account (if you do not already have one). After the course is created on Crowdmark you will be redirected to the course’s page where you can enroll students, add team members, and create an assessment.
Assessment creating begins in the LMS. A LTI link muct be created for each assessment in the LMS, then that link must be clicked to initiate assessment creation in Crowdmark. If the LTI link is ever deleted, a new LTI link must be created for the assessment, and a support request must be made to Crowdmark to re-link the assessment in order for things like grade syncronization to work.
Assessment create begins in Crowdamrk. Assessments are created by visiting the Crowdmark course page and clicking the + Create Assessment button. There is no need to explictly link Crowdmark assessments to the LMS in any way.
Duplicating assessments is useful if you wish to reuse assessments from previous courses, or create multiple versions of an existing assessment.
Assessment duplication is not possible in this workflow
This can be done the same as any non-LMS integrated assessment in Crowdmark. See: https://crowdmark.com/help/managing-sections-or-multiple-versions-of-an-exam/ and https://crowdmark.com/help/managing-sections-or-multiple-versions-of-an-assigned-assessment/
There are no changes in workflow in importing students between Legacy and Standard workflows
There are no changes in workflow in importing team members between Legacy and Standard workflows
There are no changes in workflow in exporting grades to the LMS gradebook between Legacy and Standard workflows, however in Legacy workflows grade exports can fail if the assessment LTI link is removed from the LMS. This is never an issue with the Standard workflow