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LTI 1.3 with Canvas

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Introduction

These instructions describe how to install Auralia / Musition as an LTI 1.3 tool in the Canvas LMS (learning management system) and create assignments.

Tool registration

  1. In Canvas, click Admin → Apps and click Install a New App.
  2. Use these settings:
  3. All other settings may be left unchanged. Continue through the installation wizard until you reach the end.

Now send the client ID, deployment ID and your Canvas URL to [email protected] for your Canvas to be linked to your Auralia / Musition cloud service. Use the Copy Client ID button to get the client ID.

Tool deployment

Now that the tool is installed, you need to make it available to courses for use.

To make Auralia / Musition available to all courses:

  1. In Admin → Apps, select the new tool and then the Availability and Exceptions tab.
  2. Edit the availability (next to the Add Exception button).
  3. Select Available from the drop-down.
  4. Save.

To make Auralia / Musition available to individual courses:

  1. In Admin → Apps, select the new tool and then the Availability and Exceptions tab.
  2. Click Add Exception
  3. Select a course or courses to allow.
  4. Select Available from the drop-down.
  5. Save.

Creating assignments

You can add links to Auralia and Musition from both the assignments and the modules sections in your courses. Modules would be a good place to place Auralia and Musition practice links. Assignments have scores associated with them that will be recorded in the grade book, so use Auralia and Musition task links for assignments.

To add to modules:

  1. Open a course then click the Modules link in the Course Navigation.
  2. In the Module where you’d like to add the link, click the + button.
  3. In the Add [Item Type] To: drop-down menu, select External Tool.
  4. Find the Auralia / Musition external tool, click it, and then select from the choices shown: Auralia Practice or Musition Practice. Set a name for the new link (you can edit it later in Canvas).
  5. Save the new item.

To create an assignment:

  1. Open a course then click the Assignments link in the Course Navigation.
  2. Click the + button to create a new assignment, then More Options to see the full assignment settings.
  3. Set a name, description, and maximum points for your assignment. You must set the maximum points in order to receive scores from the tool.
  4. Set the submisison type to External Tool.
  5. Find the Auralia / Musition external tool, click it, and then select from the choices shown: Auralia Task or Musition Task. Set a name for the new link (you can edit it later in Canvas).
  6. Save the new item.
  7. Canvas should open the new assignment automatically and Auralia / Musition will launch.
  8. Select an existing Auralia or Musition test or course to use or create a new one, then click Attach to associate this with your Canvas assignment.

Migration from LTI 1.1

In order to migrate from LTI 1.1 to 1.3 without affecting existing links and assignments, you will need to register a new LTI tool for each of the LTI 1.1 tools registered previously, as below. This will allow the existing Canvas launch links to work as a LTI 1.3 launch.

Typically you would have four LTI 1.1 tools registered if you are using both Auralia and Musition.  Register the additional tools using the method above, with the configuration URLs as follows:

Then make each tool available to all courses or add exceptions to for individual courses as above. Then send the client ID and deployment IDs for each tool to [email protected] in order for us to link them to your Auralia / Musition cloud service.

Once the new tools have been linked on both sides, you can remove the LTI 1.1 registrations from the course.

Note that you can simply install the LTI 1.3 tool and keep existing links as LTI 1.1 and remove them later - both can be installed simultaneously.