Admins and Teachers: How to set up our app with D2L Brightspace

Admins and Teachers: How to set up our app with D2L Brightspace

Our application integrates with many learning management systems via the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard. This article will help with the setup and use of our LTI app with the D2L Brightspace for administrators and teachers.

Copy Your Consumer Key and Secret from ScreenPal

In order for users on your team to access the features of your plan, an Account Owner or Administrator must configure the LTI app with a private consumer key and secret. To do this, complete the steps below:

1. Log into your account as an Owner or Administrator.
2. Click your user icon () and then click Settings.
3. From the sidebar on the left, click Integrations.
4. Make sure the LTI Plugin toggle is in the ON position.



5. Find the Key and Secret values in their respective fields. Copy these values into an application like Notepad, so you can use them back in the Brightspace application.
Note: These values are unique to your Team account and should not be shared with anyone outside of your team.

Add the free LTI app as a D2L Brightspace admin

1. Log into Brightspace as an administrator.
2. Click External Learning Tools (LTI)



3. From the Manage Tool Links tab, click the New Link button ().
This opens the New Link page.
4. In the Properties section, for Title, enter Screenpal.
5. For URL, enter https://screepal.com/lti/xml.
6. You can use the Description field to add a description for the link, or leave it blank. For example, enter Screen recorder, video editor, and video hosting.
Note: You will see Key and Secret fields below the Description box but you do not need to add that information here.
7. Scroll down to Security Settings, select Use link security settings, and then and make sure that the following items are selected:



8. Under Make link available to, click the Add Org Units button. This opens the Add Org Units dialog.
9. Select the courses where you want the LTI app to be available for use and then click Insert.  The Add Org Units dialog closes.
10. Click Save and Close.

That's it!  Teachers can follow the same process within a specific course when they are logged in. Teachers will need to repeat the process to add the LTI app for each course.

Enable Team Plans with the Consumer Key and Shared Secret

You can use the LTI app for your team to access your Team Plan tools, as well as the additional features provided in a Team Plan (quizzes, embedding a video in a channel, adding a screen recorder button for student assignments, adding a video to an assignment, and so forth).

1. Open a new window or tab in your browser and log into your Brightspace account.
2. Click External Learning Tools (LTI) from the top of the page.


3. Click the Manage Tool Providers tab, and then click the New Tool Provider button.
 

This opens the New Tool Provider dialog.

4. For Launch Point, enter https://screencpal.com/lti/xml.
5. For OAuth Signature Method, select HMAC-SHA1.
6. For Secret, copy and paste the Secret value you copied from the ScreenPal Integrations page
in step 5 of the Copy Your Consumer Key and Secret from ScreenPal section (above).
7. Select the Use custom tool consumer information instead of default check box.
8. For Key, copy and paste the Key value you copied from the ScreenPal Integrations page
in step 5 of the Copy Your Consumer Key and Secret from ScreenPal section (above)
9. For Name, enter ScreenPal.
10. Under Security Settings, select the following items:


11. Scroll down and click Add Org Units to open the Add Org Units dialog.
12. Select the checkbox next to your main Organizational Unit (or the one for which you want to make ScreenPal available).
13. To make the link available for all descendants of the main unit, select the radio button next to All descendants.


14. Click Insert to enter this change into the Tool Provider form.
15. Click Save and Close.

Add ScreenPal to your course as a Teacher

To add ScreenPal to a D2L Brightspace course or assignment, the ScreenPal LTI app must already have been configured by your Team Owner or Administrator.

You can add our app as an activity in any Brightspace course module by completing these steps:

1. From the menu at the top of the course, click Content.



2. From the Table of Contents on the left, select an existing module, or create a new one.
3. Within the module, click the Existing Activities drop-down list. Select External Learning Tools.



Result: The Add Activity dialog opens.

4. Click ScreenPal to add the app as an activity.



5. Back on the course page, click the drop-down arrow next to ScreenPal and select Edit Properties in Place



6. Enter a title, due date, and description for the activity.
7. Open the activity you just created by clicking the drop-down arrow next to the title and selecting View Topic.
8. Click the Channel tab.


9. Select the channel that you'd like your students to be able to view and then click Embed Channel.



When your students access this activity, only the selected video channel will be available for viewing.

10. To add the recorder for student assignments, click the Channel Recorder tab, and then select the channel where you want your students' videos to be uploaded.



11. Click Embed Channel Recorder.
That's it! Students can now access this activity and create their own videos for the assignment. The videos they create can only be uploaded to the channel you selected.

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