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Desire2Learn LTI Advantage portal integration

How to enable the D2L LTI Advantage integration for your portal

General

Usage

The Desire2Learn/Brightspace (D2L) portal LTI Advantage integration simply allows further D2L experience level integrations, so be sure to check out our D2L experience integration article.

How to

Install Riipen in D2L with LTI Advantage

To install Riipen as a LTI Advantage application in D2L, follow all of these steps from inside of your D2L instance.

Tool Setup

From an Administrator account, complete these steps:

  1. Click on the "Admin Menu" and select "Manage Extensibility"

  2. Click on the "LTI Advantage" tab and select "Register Tool"

  3. Fill in the form with the following values:

    1. Enabled: On

    1. Name: Riipen LTIA

    2. Description: Riipen LTI 1.3 Advantage Tool

    3. Domain: https://app.riipen.com

    4. Redirect URL and Target link URI: https://app.riipen.com/ltia/launch

    5. OpenID Connect Login URL: https://app.riipen.com/ltia/oidc

    6. Keyset URL: https://app.riipen.com/ltia/jwks

    7. Extensions: Deep Linking, Names and Roles, Assignments and Grades

    8. Send Institution Role: Yes

    9. Registration: Standard

Once you complete the tool registration, D2L will provide a Client ID, Brightspace Keyset URL, OpenID Connect Authentication Endpoint, and a Brightspace OAuth2 Access Token URL; record these for later.

Create Deployment

  1. Click "New Deployment"

  2. Fill in the form with the following values:

    1. Tool: Riipen LTIA

    1. Name: Riipen

    2. Description: Riipen LTI 1.3 Advantage Tool

    3. Extensions: Deep Linking, Names and Roles, Assignments and Grades

    4. Security Settings: Enable everything except "Org Defined ID".

    5. Classlist: Ensure "Classlist including users not known to this deployment" is checked

    6. Configuration Settings: Enable "Open as External Resource".

  3. Click "Create Deployment"

D2L will then provide a Deployment ID; record this for later.

Create Launch Link

Now create a basic link for Riipen that instructors can add to their course by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to "Admin Menu > External Learning Tools > LTI Advantage",

  2. Click "Riipen"

  3. Click "View Links"

  4. Click "New Link"

  5. Enter the following:

    1. Name: Riipen

    2. URL: https://app.riipen.com/ltia/launch

    3. Description: The Riipen platform

    4. Type: Basic Launch

Create Link

Now create a link to allow instructors to create deep links directly to Riipen scored items:

  1. Navigate to "Admin Menu > External Learning Tools > LTI Advantage",

  2. Click "Riipen"

  3. Click "View Links"

  4. Click "New Link"

  5. Fill in the form with the following values:

    1. Name: Riipen deep link

    1. URL: https://app.riipen.com/ltia/launch

    2. Description: Riipen LTI 1.3 Advantage Tool

    3. Type: Deep Linking Quicklink

    4. Width: 1000

    5. Height: 800

Add Riipen API

Now register Riipen as an application that has the authority to read group information (to allow instructors to import their groups from D2L into their Riipen experience):

  1. Navigate to "Tools > Manage Extensibility > OAuth 2.0"

  2. Click "Register an app"

  3. Fill in the form with the following values:

    1. Application Name: Riipen

    1. Redirect URI: https://app.riipen.com/ltia/oauth/response

    2. Scope: core:*:* groups:*:* enrollment:*:*

    3. Access Token Lifetime: 1800

    4. Prompt for user consent: No

    5. Enable refresh tokens: No

  4. Navigate to "Tools > Manage Extensibility > OAuth 2.0"

  5. Click on "Riipen"

You should now. see your API client ID and API client secret; record these for later.

Enable D2L LTI Advantage integration in Riipen

The following steps can be completed by a portal administrator. Within your portal on Riipen:

  1. Click "Settings" below the "Portal" group in the main navigation.

  2. Select the "Integrations" tab.

  3. Select the "LTI Advantage" option under the "Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI)" section.

  4. Fill in all the fields with the appropriate values (see below)

  5. Click "Submit" to finish enabling the integration.

Field

Value

LMS Type

D2L

Client ID

The Client ID from the LTI Advantage tool you registered.

Deployment ID

The Deployment ID from the deployment you created

Brightspace Keyset URL

The Brightspace Keyset URL from the LTI Advantage tool you registered.

OpenID Connect Authentication Endpoint

The OpenID Connect Authentication Endpoint from the LTI Advantage tool you registered.

Brightspace OAuth2 Access Token URL

The Brightspace OAuth2 Access Token URL from the LTI Advantage tool you registered.

API client ID

The API client ID from the app you registered.

API client secret

The API client secret from the app you registered.

Disable the D2L LTI Advantage integration in Riipen

  1. Click "Settings" below the "Portal" group in the main navigation.

  2. Select the "Integrations" tab.

  3. Select the "LTI Advantage" option under the "Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI)" section.

  4. Click on the "Delete" button to remove the integration.

Removing the portal level D2L LTI Advantage integration will remove all D2L LTI Advantage integrations for experiences within the portal.

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