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Using My Tools in the Administrator Tools

Explore My Tools to manage resources, classes, and instructional workflows.

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This feature allows administrators to create custom links which serve as a launch point to other McGraw Hill programs or third-party content providers. For districts that use ALEKS, Redbird, and StudySync® on the Open Learning Platform, links to the administrator role in these programs are automatically configured for you.

Only Organization Administrators can create My Tools links at the organization level, although they will be available to any type of administrator (Organization, Reporting, and Curriculum) on the My Tools page in their account. Access to links within My Tools depends on your own affiliations as an Organization Administrator. Links created by Organization Administrators at the district level will appear on the My Tools page for all administrators in the district. If an Organization Administrator affiliated with one or more schools creates a My Tools link, the link will only appear for administrators at those schools.

Teachers have the ability to create My Tools at the class level. To learn how teachers create My Tools to share with students, see the article: Open Learning Platform - Create and Share My Tools.

In order to create a custom link, the content provider must be LTI® 1.1 compatible and must be a tool (tool provider) and not a platform (tool consumer).

Create a Custom Link 

  1. Select My Tools from the left side menu. 
     

  1. Select the Create LTI Tool button.
     
     

  1. Complete the following required fields: 

  • Name - Provide a name for your link. 

  • Endpoint - The URL where the tool provider is launched from. 

  • Consumer Key - You will need to obtain this from the tool provider. This is the unique identifier used to identify who is launching the tool. 

  • Shared Secret - This value is paired with the consumer key and is used to verify the key is being used by the correct individual.  

  • Third Party App Installation Warning – You must confirm that McGraw Hill is authorized to send user data to the app provider in order to create the link. 

  1. Complete any desired optional fields: 

  • Icon - You can upload an image to identify the content provider, if desired. 

  • Custom Parameters - These are values sent to the tool provider when the tool is launched. The tool provider may require some of these parameters in order to handle its business logic.  

  • Privacy Settings - You can dictate what type of user data is sent to the app provider by McGraw Hill.  

  1. Click the Create button to create your custom link. 
     
     

Once saved, your link will appear as a tile on the My Tools page for any administrator(s) affiliated with your organization(s).  

You can favorite a tool by clicking the bookmark icon in the top right of the specific tool.

All favorited LTI Tools will show up at the bottom of the Admin Tools menu underneath My Tools for any administrator(s) affiliated with your organization(s). 
 

To launch the new tool, you can click on the tile in My Tools, or if you have favorited the tool, you can click on the menu option in the left menu. The tool will launch in a new tab.
 
Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) is a trademark of IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. (www.imsglobal.org).
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