WIMS-LTI is a gateway server that links LMSs to WIMS servers, using LTI.

Glossary: ========= - Wims is an interactive web service featuring rich dynamic exercices for students, and a framework to manage inline courses, virtual classes for teachers. Wims is a LMS, currently packaged in Debian. - the acronym LMS stands for Learning Management System. Popular Learning Management systems are Moodle, Chamilo, Claroline, etc. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system - LTI is an acronym for Learning Tools Interoperability: it is an open standard allowing one to define quickly communication channels between LMS(a) and LMS(b), for example to allow one to manage a virtual class with his students in LMS(a), and cherry pick exercises provided by LMS(b) seemlessly. ==========

A single instance of WIMS-LTI can handle a lot of LMS and WIMS servers.

WIMS-LTI allows :

- To create a WIMS class associated to a LMS' course. - To create students corresponding to that course in the WIMS class. - Students to connect to the WIMS server from a LMS. - Teachers to connect to the WIMS class as supervisor or as student from a LMS. - To send the grades of students back to the LMS (automatically and manually).

The documentation is available on readthedocs: https://wims-lti.readthedocs.io/.