by Mary Cooch.
Hi Ian (Sorry if you were expecting an answer - I don't know!) But I will do some investigation too as I would really like to get more to grips with External tool - the documentation on it is very sparse.
Edit Well actually I am a bit nearer the solution because when you click the help file it actually says
- Pending - These tool providers came in through a package import, but have not been configured by an administrator. Teachers may still use tools from these providers if they have a consumer key and shared secret, or if none is required.
So does that mean we assume that it's not a teacher on the course who suggests them to the admin for approval, but that they have come in from elsewhere??
However the capability http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Capabilities/mod/lti:requesttooladddoes suggest that teachers can ask admins to add external tools - so the question remains....