LTI Keys and URLs

This page provides an overview of some of the key settings allowing for LTI integration. For more specific directions, access your LMS under system-specific directions.

LTI Constant URLs

Enabling this setting enables constant URL for course assignments, course detection will be done based on the custom parameter your LMS should pass.

Constant URL’s allows the transfer of learning content without modifying LTI links and they are also required if you wish to copy Codio courses and LMS Courses. See LTI Course Copy for more on this.

LTI Keys

LTI Keys are used to integrate your LMS to Codio. Your LMS administrator will use these keys once to integrate Codio as an LTI provider in your system. Once Codio has been added as an LTI provider, you will not need them again and the remaining actions can be completed by LMS users who have Teacher/Instructor permissions. LTI keys are accessible to Codio Organization Owners only.

To find these keys:

  1. Go to your organization account settings by clicking on your user name in the bottom left of your dashboard and then selecting your organization within Organizations.

  2. Select the LTI Integrations tab.

  3. Scroll down to the LTI Integration 1.0 section. You should see the following fields.
lti-keys

Course LMS URL

The Course LMS URL is used to map a LMS course to a Codio course. This ensures that students are automatically redirected to the correct course when they access it through the Codio dashboard.

Note: The LMS user who carries out these steps does not need to be a system administrator but must have suitable privileges to edit courses and assignments.

  1. In Codio, go to the LTI/LMS section.

  2. At the top is a switch Enable LTI which you should enable.

  3. Below this is an empty field Course LMS URL. Switch back to your LMS and make sure you are on the Home page of the course. Copy the url in the address bar of your browser to the clipboard and paste it into the above mentioned field in Codio.

  4. Save your changes.
lti-class-url

LTI Integration Assignment URLs

The Assignment URL is needed to map each individual assignment within your Codio course to the corresponding assignment in your LMS. It directs a student to the correct Codio assignment and will automatically open the Codio assignment.

  1. On the main course screen, click the icon with 3 blue dots for each of the assignments you wish to map and select LTI Integration URL.

  2. You should copy the LTI integration url to the clipboard by clicking on the field (it will auto copy).

Assigment URL

Note

The LTI integration URLs for the assignments in a course can be exported, see instructions below.

Export LTI Settings

The LTI integration URLs for the assignments in a course can be exported.

  • Select the course, go to the LTI/LMS area and then press the Assignment URLs button.

    Export LTI settings

LTI Enroll to Course Only

LTI Enrollment provides single sign-on access to an entire course without linking each assignment. It does not allow for automatic grade passback.

To use this feature, first generate a link from your Codio course and then add it to your LMS course as an External Tool in an assignment or module. When students click the link, they are enrolled in the Codio course and redirected to the Codio dashboard. On there dashboards they will see all the assignments for the course. Students do not need to begin each assignment using the LMS system.

To generate an LTI Enroll Link, follow the steps below:

Export LTI settings

  1. Navigate to the Courses page and select the course you wish to connect.

  2. Click LTI/LMS tab and turn ON the Enable LTI setting from LTI/LMS Setting area.

  3. Enable the Enroll to course only setting to generate the link.

  4. Copy the link and paste it as an External Tool in your LMS system.


Note

With the Enroll to course only setting, grades are not passed back to the LMS. Refer to Webhook for more information about passing grades back.

Common Cartridge

Allows you to export the Common Cartridge 1.3 data for the course to then use within your LMS system to import details of the assignments in your Codio courses.

  1. Navigate to the Courses page and select the course to open it.

  2. Click the LTI/LMS tab and then in the LTI/LMS Connections area, click to Common Cartridge the common cartridge information.

    Common Cartridge Export

Important

If working with Canvas, each assignment within your LMS still needs to be configured. Refer to the system specific instructions for your LMS system.