Brightspace LTI integration

How to enable the Brightspace LTI integration for your experience on Riipen

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Written by Arnaud Z
Updated over a week ago

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.

  1. Sign into Brightspace as an Administrator

  2. From the Admin menu (access under the gear menu next to your name), click "External Learning Tools"

  3. Click the "Manage Tool Providers" tab

  4. 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.

  1. Open your course, then click Edit Course to get to your Course Administration page.

  2. Click "External Learning Tools"

  3. Click the "Manage External Tool Links" tab

  4. Click the "New Link" button

  5. 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)

Brightspace Edit Course Link Screen

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