LTI Custom Fields to Prevent Role Based Access

[mbra2]

Hey everyone,

Looking to add an external tool link that would be unpublished in our modules for instructor resources.  The potential issue is that in the event of an accidental publication of this link, students could access sensitive course information. Hasn't happened but I would like to put an extra layer of protection on this.  Asked the vendor and they are unwilling to do role-based access for the item.  Wanted to check to see if it is possible to add this through the custom fields section when adding the LTI or if there was a better way to prevent this one item from being accidentally published.

Any resource page or any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[mzimmerman]

Hi @mbra2 

To set an LTI so that it is visible only to instructors and not students, the necessary setting is "visibility":"admins", but I'm not sure you can simply add it in the Custom Fields area, or if you need to set up the LTI by pasting XML and including the it in the Course Navigation settings part of the XML, like

<lticm:options name="course_navigation">
<lticm:property name="default">enabled</lticm:property>
<lticm:property name="text">Tool</lticm:property>
<lticm:property name="url">https://toolurl.com</lticm:property>
<lticm:property name="visibility">admins</lticm:property>
</lticm:options>