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The Canvas 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 Canvas 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 Canvas. 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 create the developer key in Canvas with which you can create the app in Canvas. Once you have completed these steps, you are able to configure the integration in Ans as the final step. 

Prepare the integration in Ans 

  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 Canvas-section.
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A pop-up will show up containing three personal links, which you will need to create the Developer Key in Canvas 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 Canvas. 

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Create the Developer Key in Canvas

  1. Open a new tab in your browser and sign into Canvas.
  2. Click on Admin in the menu on the left and select the relevant account.
  3. Click on Developer Keys and then on the '+ Developer Key' button.
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  4. Select the 'LTI Key' option.
  5. Fill in the information with the links provided by Ans in the previous steps. This is what the page should look like filled in: 
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  6. Make sure to check the following settings under LTI Advantage Services:

  7. Make sure to open the tab Additional Settings and switch the Privacy Level to Public.
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  8. Under Placements, select locations in Canvas where you want the tool to be visible.

    We strongly encourage using placements that support LTI Deep Linking to ensure a correct and stable integration between Ans and Canvas. You can verify this by selecting a placement and opening its options—if LtiDeepLinkingRequest appears as a selectable option, it means the placement supports Deep Linking.
  9. After filling in the information click Save.
  10. You will be redirected to the overview of the Developer keys.
  11. Enable the tool to ON in the State column.
  12. Copy the ClientID displayed in the Details column.

 

Create the App in Canvas

  1. Click Admin in the menu on the left and select the relevant account.
  2. Click Settings in the bottom left. 
  3. Click Apps in the top menu and click on View App Configurations button.
  4. On the next page, click on the blue '+ App' button.
  5. Set the Configuration Type to By ClientID.
  6. Fill in the ClientID you copied in the last step of the previous section.
  7. Click Submit and then on Install.
  8. After installation, you'll be taken back to External Apps screen. Find your freshly installed app and click on the cogwheel on the right. A pop-up will open which includes the Deployment ID. This is what you will need to finish setting up the integration in Ans.

 

Setup the integration in Ans

  1. Navigate back to the Ans page.
  2. Fill in the information in the pop-up.
  3. Click on Activate when you have filled in the necessary information.image_4.png

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

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