Gallery

Think about the following concepts to ease the process of setting up the tool in your course:

• Meta Tags - Consider how you want students to label their work. The tool allows you to create up to two lists of meta tags. For example, a writing assignment gallery might have meta tag lists for “genre” and “theme”.

• Description Instructions - When students upload their work, they must enter a short description of it. What instructions might you give them for writing a good description for this assignment?

Categories and topics are essentially the same thing: lists of meta tags. If you include two or more category/topic options, students will be able to tag their work with terms from those lists during the upload process. In addition to specifying the terms, you can also replace the words “Category” and “Topic” with more appropriate text, such as “Genre” for a list of genre tags.

Watch this video for a demonstration of how to set them up.

Yes! The Gallery Tool is capable of passing back a 0 to 1 value to your LMS, as long as it supports LTI v1.1.

“LTI” stands for “Learning Tools Interoperability” and it is the underlying technology that allows you and your students to authenticate into the tool without having to create a separate account. Instead it uses your login credentials from the LMS. Starting with version 1.1, LTI enabled support for graded assignments. With this version of LTI, the Gallery Tool can pass back a 0 to 1.0 value to your LMS when a user uploads a submission.

As of May 2020, Canvas, Coursera and edX support LTI v1.1 while FutureLearn does not.

No, in order for anyone to authenticate into the tool they must come from an LTI item within an LMS. For that reason, there is no public-facing component to any Gamut Tool.

• Inside your Canvas course, choose or create the module that will contain the link to the tool.

• Add a new “item”, and choose the “External Tool” type.

• Scroll through the list of tools until you see Gamut Gallery and click the link.

• In the Page Name field, enter your desired name for the gallery.

• For the best tool experience, check the box “Load in a new tab”.

• Add/save the item.

• Launch the tool as an instructor and complete the internal setup process, such as adding category/topic options, on the Gallery Configuration page.

• Please submit a request for the LTI Credentials to receive your key and secret, and someone from our team will respond shortly with that information.

• Inside the course shell, add a new LTI item (found under “More”)

• Inside the new LTI item, provide a title and description.

• If this LTI item is for a graded assignment, select “Version 1.3” for the Version field.

• In the Launch URL field, enter: https://gallery-tool.ai.umich.edu/gallery/launch/

• Enter the provided values provided by our team for the consumer key and secret fields.

• In the Learner Privacy field, select “Share learner ID, full name, and email address” 

• In the Outcome Callback field, select “yes” for graded items and “no” for ungraded assignments.

• Launch the tool as an instructor and complete the final configuration steps (such as adding category/topic choices), and click "Submit". Then you can launch the tool as a learner or instructor from that point forward.

Step 1: Submit the LTI Exercise Step Submission Form ASAP

FutureLearn's setup process requires more time than the other platforms' (they request advanced notice of 30 days prior to launch), due to their review/QA process. If you know you want to use a Gamut tool in a FutureLearn course, we recommend taking the following steps as soon as possible.

1. Create a new "exercise step". Customize the title and body text to meet the needs of your use case. For the "URL" field, enter: "https://gallery-tool.ai.umich.edu/gallery/launch/".

2. Next, FutureLearn must review the tool and enable LTI for your course. Begin this process by visiting this help article. Scroll down to the Exercise Step Submission Form and provide the requested information. Below are answers to the security and accessibility questions:

• • Is all content served over SSL/HTTPS? Yes

  • Can you navigate through all of the content using only the keyboard? Yes

  • Is the currently focussed element clearly highlighted? Yes

  • Can you view or scroll to all of the content on: Check all

  • Are all hit areas on mobile larger than 7-10mm? Yes

  • Is all text presented at a font-size of 14px or above? Yes

  • Have you provided a text-only or other fallback measure for unsupported browsers? No, unless your course team creates a hardcopy equivalent of the exercise/activity for learners to complete.

  • Have you explained any fallback measures in the step content?(e.g., if JavaScript or a modern browser is required it must be stated up front) Yes. When creating the instructions for the step in FutureLearn, we also recommend prompting users to use Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. Safari is less well-supported and Internet Explorer is not supported.

  • Have you implemented scrolling if you need it? Not applicable

  • Have you made sure not to use any framebusting code? Yes

3. Submit the form and notify your FL course representative that you have done so. Share with them that the tool will only work properly once it has been launched and configured by someone with instructor permissions. When testing it, they MUST launch the tool as an instructor first and set it up before anyone can launch it as a learner.

Step 2: Request that LTI Be Enabled and Get Your Credentials from Gamut

Once the tool has been approved, also be sure to request that LTI be enabled for the course by emailing partnersupport@futurelearn.com. Provide them with a link to the exercise and ask them to enable LTI. Once they have done so, request LTI credential access for the Gallery Tool if you don't already have it.

After you receive the LTI key and secret, enter those pieces of information into the corresponding LTI launch option fields in the exercise step (which will be visible once LTI is enabled by FL).

Step 3: Launch as an Instructor and Complete the Internal Configuration Steps

Launch the tool as an instructor and complete the configuration steps inside the tool. The bare minimum required to configure the tool is setting one category and one topic, each. Save the configuration and the tool will be accessible to learners.

We’re sorry to hear you’re encountering issues with the tool. Please submit a support request and we'll be with as soon as possible.