London School of Economics and Political Science LTI API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: LSE Moodle 1.3 Platform Endpoints LTI API
  version: '2026-08-19'
  summary: The IMS LTI 1.3 / LTI Advantage platform endpoints exposed by the London School of Economics and Political Science virtual learning environment at moodle.lse.ac.uk. These are the endpoints an external tool provider integrates against when LSE registers it as an LTI tool.
  description: 'LSE runs its own Moodle instance on its own registrable domain (moodle.lse.ac.uk, A records direct to AWS eu-west-1; managed hosting is provided by Catalyst IT, a Moodle Partner, whose security.txt is served at /.well-known/security.txt). The LTI 1.3 platform identity is LSE''s own: the issuer is https://moodle.lse.ac.uk, the signing keys published at /mod/lti/certs.php are unique to this deployment, and the registered technical contact on the sibling SAML2 SP metadata is lti.support@lse.ac.uk.

    This document is DERIVED BY API EVANGELIST FROM LIVE PROBES. LSE has not published an OpenAPI description of these endpoints. It is recorded here so the institution''s genuinely institution-operated programmable surface is legible, and it must not be read as a contract LSE authored or warrants.'
  contact:
    name: LSE LTI Support
    email: lti.support@lse.ac.uk
    url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/
  termsOfService: https://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-information/terms-of-use
  license:
    name: Not stated by the operator
servers:
- url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk
  description: LSE virtual learning environment (production)
tags:
- name: LTI
  description: IMS Global Learning Tools Interoperability 1.3 / LTI Advantage platform endpoints.
paths:
  /mod/lti/certs.php:
    get:
      tags:
      - LTI
      operationId: getLtiPlatformJwks
      summary: Retrieve the LTI 1.3 platform public key set (JWKS)
      description: Returns the JSON Web Key Set holding the RSA public keys this platform uses to sign LTI 1.3 id_tokens. A tool provider fetches this to validate launch assertions issued by LSE. Observed live returning a single RS256 signing key.
      security: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The platform JSON Web Key Set.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/JsonWebKeySet'
              examples:
                observed:
                  summary: Response observed 2026-08-19
                  externalValue: ../examples/lse-lti-jwks-response.json
  /mod/lti/token.php:
    post:
      tags:
      - LTI
      operationId: issueLtiServiceToken
      summary: Exchange a signed client assertion for an LTI Advantage access token
      description: OAuth 2.0 client-credentials token endpoint (RFC 7523 JWT bearer client assertion) used by registered LTI tools to obtain access tokens for the LTI Advantage services — Names and Role Provisioning, Assignment and Grade Services, Deep Linking. Requires a tool registration held by LSE; an unregistered caller receives invalid_request.
      security: []
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ClientCredentialsRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Access token issued.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AccessTokenResponse'
        '400':
          description: 'Malformed or unregistered request. Observed body on an unsigned grant_type=client_credentials POST: {"error":"invalid_request"}.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAuthError'
  /mod/lti/auth.php:
    get:
      tags:
      - LTI
      operationId: ltiAuthorizationRedirect
      summary: OIDC third-party-initiated login authorization endpoint
      description: The OpenID Connect authorization endpoint in the LTI 1.3 third-party initiated login flow. A tool redirects the browser here; the platform responds with a signed id_token form-POSTed back to the tool's redirect URI. This is a browser redirect surface, not a JSON API.
      security: []
      parameters:
      - name: scope
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          const: openid
      - name: response_type
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          const: id_token
      - name: client_id
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: redirect_uri
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          format: uri
      - name: login_hint
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: state
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: nonce
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: lti_message_hint
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: HTML. Observed 200 with an HTML body when called without launch parameters; a valid launch produces a self-submitting form POST to the tool redirect_uri carrying the id_token.
          content:
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
components:
  schemas:
    ClientCredentialsRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - grant_type
      properties:
        grant_type:
          type: string
          const: client_credentials
        client_assertion_type:
          type: string
          const: urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer
        client_assertion:
          type: string
          description: Signed JWT proving the tool's registered identity.
        scope:
          type: string
          description: Space-delimited LTI Advantage service scopes granted to the tool registration.
    OAuthError:
      type: object
      required:
      - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: 'OAuth 2.0 error code. Observed value: invalid_request.'
        error_description:
          type: string
    JsonWebKeySet:
      $ref: ../json-schema/lse-lti-jwks-schema.json
    AccessTokenResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        access_token:
          type: string
        token_type:
          type: string
          const: Bearer
        expires_in:
          type: integer
        scope:
          type: string
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence:
  registrable-domain: lse.ac.uk
  host: moodle.lse.ac.uk
  dns: A records (no vendor CNAME) — 108.131.193.25, 54.194.193.120, 54.246.111.86
  lti-issuer: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk
  managed-hosting: Catalyst IT (Moodle Partner) — hosting only; the LTI issuer, keys and SAML SP entity are LSE's
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-08-19'
  method: derived
  source: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/mod/lti/certs.php
  derived-from-probes:
  - url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/mod/lti/certs.php
    status: 200
    content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
  - url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/mod/lti/token.php
    method: POST
    status: 400
    content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    body: '{ "error" : "invalid_request" }'
  - url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/mod/lti/auth.php
    status: 200