Connecting your Riipen experience with Brightspace via LTI enables learners to use the full Riipen platform directly through a Brightspace activity / assignment. Learner accounts are automatically created when learners view Riipen in Brightspace for the first time. No sign-up required!
Enabling the Brightspace LTI integration
Administrator Setup
The following steps need to be completed inside of Brightspace.
Sign into Brightspace as an Administrator
From the Admin menu (access under the gear menu next to your name), click "External Learning Tools"
Click the "Manage Tool Providers" tab
Click "New Tool Provider", then fill out the following fields:
Launch Point | https://{subdomain}.riipen.com |
Version | 1.1 |
OAuth Signature | HMAC-SHA1 |
Tool consumer information | ✔ Check Use tool consumer information instead of default |
Key | Get one of your portal's keys "public token" in the settings -> keys tab of your portal in Riipen. Create a key if one does not exist. |
Secret | Get one of your portal's keys "secret token" in the settings -> keys tab of your portal in Riipen. Create a key if one does not exist. |
Name | Riipen |
Security Settings | Check "Send LTI user ID and LTI role list to tool provider" |
Security Settings | Check "Send user email to tool provider" |
Click "Save" to add the Riipen LTI app.
Educator Setup
The following steps need to be completed inside of Brightspace.
Open your course, then click Edit Course to get to your Course Administration page.
Click "External Learning Tools"
Click the "Manage External Tool Links" tab
Click the "New Link" button
Fill the following fields:
Title | Riipen |
URL | https://{subdomain}.riipen.com/lti/experiences/[experience_id] |
Security Settings | Select "Use tool provider security settings" |
6. Click "Save and Close"
7. Go to your course Content page
8. Open an existing module, or create a new one in the table of contents.
9. Click the "Add Existing" button, then select "External Tool Activity"
10. Select Riipen from the list of tools.
Important!
After adding Riipen to your course content, ensure the course link is set to "Open in a new tab" by selecting the three dot menu icon, then selecting Edit (see screenshot below)
