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The Blackboard integration

Angela Konijn
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Ans supports Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI). LTI integrations can be used to connect your Learning Management System (LMS) with Ans. Ans currently supports LTI 1.3. Within this version of LTI, the following actions can be supported when the integration is made:

  • Within your LMS, you can make a connection to a test in Ans. After the students sign in to the LMS and open the test, then the test will be opened in a new tab and students will be redirected to their test in Ans without having to sign in again.
  • The results can be sent back to the LMS, after the students have successfully submitted their test in Ans.

If you are ready to start with the Blackboard integration through LTI 1.3, you will need to activate the integration on school level in Ans. You will need to set up the integration both in Ans and Blackboard.

The steps below will take you through this process, which is divided into different sections. First, you will need to prepare the set-up of the integration in Ans, after which you will need to prepare the integration in Blackboard Developer. You can then register the application in Blackboard, after which you can finish setting up the integration in Ans. Then you will need to set up a Developer Key in Blackboard, so you can finalise the set-up in Blackboard.  

Prepare the integration in Ans - part 1 

  1. Click the domain School name in the menu on the left.
  2. Click Settings in the menu at the top.
  3. Click Integrations in the menu on the left. 
  4. Click Configure in the Blackboard-section

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A pop-up will appear containing three personal links, which you will need to create the Developer Key in Blackboard in the next section. You can identify the different links by the word they end on: logins, launches or lti/keys. Keep these links handy for the next section. You will be filling in the open fields in this pop-up after you are done setting up the integration in Blackboard. 

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Prepare the integration in Blackboard Developer

You will need to navigate to the Blackboard Developer Portal to create a new registration for your LTI integration. This needs to be done for every integration, you can create multiple registrations on the same Ans environment as well as on the separate environments. 

  1. Sign in to the Blackboard Developer Portal.
  2. Click Register a new application. 
  3. Fill in the information as shown below. 
  4. Enable My integration supports LTI 1.3. 
  5. Click Register Application.

 

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A new page will open up with the information you will need to finish setting up the integration in Ans by getting the Developer Key from Blackboard. On this page you will see multiple links and codes. You will need to copy the Application ID to use in Blackboard, which is where it will be called the ClientID.

The information on this page will also be needed to set up the integration in Ans. 

Prepare the integration in Ans - part 2

  1. Open Ans again. 
  2. Fill in the information as shown below. 
  3. Wait with clicking on Activate until you have finished the steps in the next section. 

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Create the Developer Key in Blackboard

  1. Open a new tab in your browser and sign into Blackboard
  2. Navigate to System admin in the top right corner. 
  3. Click LTI Tool Providers under the Integrations section. 
  4. Click Register LTI 1.3/Advantage Tool. 
  5. Fill in the Client ID (also know as the Application ID). 
  6. Click Submit. 
  7. Copy the Deployment ID and fill it into Ans. Click Activate in Ans. 
  8. Fill in the information as shown below. 
  9. Click Submit. 

 

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Finalise the setup in Blackboard

  1. Navigate to System admin.
  2. Click Course Settings under the Courses-section. 
  3. Click Course Tools.
  4. Scroll down to LTI and enable it on. 
  5. Choose to apply the changes to either only new or both new and existing courses. 
  6. Click Submit. 
  7. Navigate back to System admin.
  8. Click LTI Tool Providers under the Integrations section.
  9. Click on the Tool Provider for Ans.
  10. Click Create placement.
  11. Fill in the information as shown below.
    • To send results from Ans to Blackboard, you must enable 'Deep Linking content tool' instead of 'Course content tool'.
    • Make sure to check the box for 'Launch in New Window'.
  12. Click Submit

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What’s next
Once the Blackboard integration is set up, you can create a LTI-link for an assignment.

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