LTI's integrate learning applications used by instructors into their courses. Below you will find the procedure for requesting 3rd Part/LTI integrations into Blackboard. Each 3rd Party tool will function differently within Blackboard, because of this, the instructor must provide support for their students. 

Edison State Community College Third-Party Tool (LTI) Procedure

In effort to maintain a secure and optimal performance of ESCC’s Blackboard LMS as well as ensure all third-party tool requests are completed in a consistent and timely fashion, the following process has been developed.

1. Requester (faculty or academic staff member) completes the request form and sends to IT staff via support@edisonohio.edu.
2. The request form is received by the Blackboard Admin for review. The Blackboard Admin will contact the vendor and/or the requester if there is a need for more information.
3. Blackboard Admin will perform technical testing on LMS test environment in order to confirm the tool is working and not causing any performance issues.
4. A decision about the tool is made by the Blackboard Admin and IT staff and the requester will be notified.
   1. If approved: The tool will be integrated into the Production environment of the LMS.
   2. If rejected: The rational is documented and communicated back to the requester.
      1. Potential reasons for rejection:
         1. Significant Costs involved or no funding decision was agreed upon
         2. Significant downtime is involved
         3. Significant data security issue
         4. Significant impact on LMS performance
      2. Timeline:
         1. Tools that are approved and do not require down time will be installed to the LMS within 2 weeks from the final approval.
         2. Requests for Third-Party tools must be completed by the following: