Flash Reference
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Connecting your LMS

Moodle

Add Flash Reference to Moodle as an external tool, so teachers can add decks as activities, choosing each from a list.

You'll need to be an admin in Flash Reference and a site administrator in Moodle.

Tip: Moodle 4.1 and later can connect with LTI 1.3 instead. See Moodle with LTI 1.3.

Before you start

In Flash Reference, open Settings → Production and keep these at hand:

  • Launch URL: https://flash-reference.com/lti/launch
  • Production Consumer Key and Production Secret, which are your organization's own.
The Launch URL, consumer key and secret in Settings
Moodle needs the Launch URL, the consumer key and the secret.

The Test tab has a second key and secret, for a test copy of Moodle.

Add Flash Reference to Moodle

  1. Go to Site administration → Plugins → Activity modules → External tool → Manage tools and select configure a tool manually.
  2. Enter:
    • Tool name: Flash Reference
    • Tool URL: the Launch URL
    • LTI version: LTI 1.0/1.1
    • Consumer key and Shared secret: your Production Consumer Key and Secret
    • Tool configuration usage: Show in activity chooser and as a preconfigured tool
    • Supports Deep Linking (Content-Item Message): on, with the Launch URL as the Content Selection URL
  3. Under Privacy, set Share launcher's name with tool and Share launcher's email with tool to Always.
  4. Select Save changes.

Adding decks to a course

Teachers add an activity, choose Flash Reference, and use Select content to choose one of their decks. See Adding a deck to your course.

If something looks different

These steps follow Moodle's own documentation, and menus can differ between versions and setups. If a screen doesn't match, contact us and we'll help.