Connecting Riipen with Canvas through LTI Advantage makes it simple for learners to move seamlessly from a Canvas course to the linked Riipen experience.

General

Roster Sync

Roster syncs are used to synchronize the roster from your LMS course into your Riipen experience. Any learners that have added to your LMS course will be added to your Riipen experience (under the Learners tab), and any that have unenrolled will be removed from the experience.

Grade Sync

Educators have the opportunity to manage how grade book columns in the LMS are created. Educators can allow Riipen to automatically create LMS grade book columns for each scored Riipen entity such as surveys, milestones, or final deliverables, or they can manually create deep links to individual assignments in the LMS. Once scores on Riipen become finalized, they are released back to the LMS automatically.

Educators can also choose to sync the total score rather than individual scores back to the LMS grade book. A learner’s total score is each individual entity's score summed.

Deep Links

Deep Linking is a method that allows for direct linking to items in your Riipen experience such as surveys, milestones, etc to a grade book column, or can be used to simply guide users to specific points within Riipen without impacting learners' grades.

Some educators prefer to use deep links over auto-generated grade book columns in order to have more control of how learners access content in Riipen. Deep links may also be useful if you prefer to stagger the visibility of assignments within your LMS.

How to

Enable the Canvas LTI Advantage integration

After Ripen has been installed by your administrator, educators can follow these steps to set up your Canvas-linked Riipen experience.

Ensure your experience within Riipen already exists
In your Canvas course, click "Settings"
Click "Navigation"
Locate Riipen (it may be towards the bottom of the list) and click three dots beside Riipen, and click "Enable", or click and drag it to the list of active navigation options
Click "Save"
Click on "Riipen" in the left navigation. You may need to refresh your page for the link to appear.
You will be redirected to Riipen
Find your experience you would like to link to your Canvas course to and click it
Click the "Settings" tab
Click the "Integrations" tab i n the "Advanced" tab group
Click "LTI Advantage" in the "Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI)" group
Click "Create link"

Synchronize rosters

Navigate to your experience.
Click the "Settings" tab.
Select the "Integrations" tab.
Select the "Canvas LTI Advantage" option under the data source section.
Click "Synchronize roster"

Synchronizing the roster happens in the background and may take a few minutes to complete.

Set up grade synchronization

Navigate to your experience.
Click the "Settings" tab.
Select the "Integrations" tab.
Click "LTI Advantage" in the "Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI)" group
Select the synchronization option from "LMS Grade Book Sync"
Select the grade book column option from "LMS Grade Book Columns
Click "Save"

Create a graded deep link

Follow these steps to create graded deep links in your Canvas course:

Create your scored entity in Riipen first.
Navigate to your Canvas Assignments page
Click "Add assignment"
Scroll down to "Submission Type", and select "External tool".
Click "Find", and then click "Riipen" from the list.
Select the rubric from your Riipen experience you want to link
Click "Deep link this rubric"
Click "Select"
Enable "Load This Tool In A New Tab"
Click "Save & Publish"

Create an ungraded deep link

If you'd like to create deep links to anywhere in your Riipen experience but do not want to have a grade associated with it in your Canvas grade book, follow these steps: