Answer
AnswerCan you add adaptive AI training to an existing LMS without replacing it?
Yes: keep the LMS as the system of record and connect an adaptive training tool to it through LTI 1.3 for launch and xAPI for results, so learners start from the LMS and their progress returns to it.
An LMS is built to host, assign and record training, and most organizations cannot replace theirs in the middle of a contract. They do not need to. Open standards let an outside tool appear as an item inside the LMS. LTI 1.3 launches the tool with the learner already signed in. xAPI sends statements about what the learner did to a learning record store. The LMS keeps assignments, deadlines and the audit record, and the adaptive tool supplies lessons the LMS cannot generate.
At a glance
- The LMS keeps
- Assignments, deadlines, completion history and the audit record.
- The adaptive tool adds
- Lessons generated per person, tutoring and skill data.
- Launch
- LTI 1.3, or a one-time login link.
- Results
- xAPI statements to your learning record store, or an API.
- People data
- User provisioning from your HR system.
What are the steps to connect adaptive training to an LMS?
Confirm what your LMS supports
Check for LTI 1.3 and xAPI in your platform’s documentation, and ask your LMS administrator which versions are switched on.
Decide what stays in the LMS
Mandatory courses, deadlines and the completion record stay where they are. The new tool is linked from the LMS, not migrated into it.
Set up launch
Register the tool in the LMS so a learner clicks an item and lands in a lesson, signed in. Test it with one course first.
Send results back
Agree which events return: lesson started, lesson completed, score or mastery. Point them at your learning record store or pull them through an API.
Provision people once
Sync users from your HR system so roles and teams are correct on both sides and a repeat sync does not create duplicates.
What are LTI 1.3 and xAPI?
LTI, Learning Tools Interoperability, is a specification from 1EdTech, formerly IMS Global, that lets a learning platform integrate remote tools and content in a standard way. Version 1.3 added a new security model. xAPI, the Experience API, is a standard for recording learning activity as statements held in a learning record store, which can stand alone or sit inside an LMS.
How does Scholé connect to an LMS?
Scholé supports LTI 1.3 launch, a token exchange that trades a platform credential for a one-time learner login link, user provisioning that does not duplicate on a repeat sync, xAPI statements to your learning record store and an analytics API.
Scholé’s integrations page names Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, D2L Brightspace, Open edX, Sakai, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Cornerstone, Docebo, TalentLMS, Litmos and 360Learning, and states that any platform that speaks LTI 1.3 or can consume xAPI will work.
Where Scholé fits
- You want generated, role-specific lessons to launch from inside the LMS you already run.
- You want learner progress returned as xAPI statements or through an API.
Where Scholé is not the answer
- You are looking for a replacement LMS. Scholé is not a system of record and does not attempt to be one.
- You need to host SCORM packages or content authored elsewhere. Your LMS does that, and Scholé does not.
- You need compliance assignment with deadlines and escalation. That stays in the LMS.
More on this site: Integrations, Scholé vs a corporate LMS.