First, a bit of a history lesson. A long time ago in a release far away, basic LTI was added to Sakai and it appeared in Lessons under “Add External Tool”. The Content Item Launch was added and added to so LTI tools were either directly placeable or were a source of possibly many directly placeable tools. These all showed up under Add External Tool in Lessons. Then when Dayton really started to use Tsugi heavily they wanted to put the Content Item launch tools into their own “Add Learning App” and these were then removed from “Add External Tool”. It was fine for a while, but as more and more LTI tools were integrated, a tool might appear one or the other of these areas in the Lessons menu with no real reason that made sense to the users.

Other LMS’s did not make users figure out which of the nearly two identical UI locations they might find a tool. Instead they just listed all the tools and those that were sources of multiple tools had a little search icon so as to distinguish them without requiring two separate UI locations.

Sakai and other LMS’s had unnecessarily different UI’s when selecting LTI tools in the Rich Text Editor and Assignments.

The goal of this Jira is to produce “one true way” to choose LTI tools across Assignments, Lessons, and the Rich Text Editor and make it all more attractive and easier to use for the user.

This coupled with will lead to a very consistent UI across the various placements of External Tools in Sakai.