If your school does not currently have an integration agreement with SimBio, please start by reading Initiate a Canvas Integration with SimBio Active Learning System.
Once the approval process has been completed, the next steps toward successfully integrating the SimBio Active Learning System with your Canvas course need to be completed by someone that has a Canvas Admin account. (Likely the IT person for your department can steer you in the right direction).
Admin Instructions
- Log into your Canvas Admin Account.
- Click on Developer Keys in the left-hand menu.
- Click the + Developer Key button on the right-hand side of the window and click +LTI Key in the drop-down menu.
- On the Key Settings page underneath Configure, click in the method box and select Paste Json.
- Paste the custom URL that you received from your SimBio Customer Relations specialist in the box labelled LTI 1.3 Configuration.
- In the Key Name field on the left, enter "SimBio Active Learning System," and in the Owner Email field, enter support@simbio.com.
- Click the Save button in the lower right-hand corner.
- On the Developer Keys page, change the state of the new key that you just created from off to on by clicking on the "x" in the State column and click OK in the confirmation message.
- Copy and save the Client Id which is the number above the Show Key button as shown in the screenshot below for use in adding the app to a particular Course and/or Sub-Account. You (or the instructor) will need to send the Client Id (along with other info) back to support@simbio.com so that we can complete the integration.
- The next step is to install the SimBio Active Learning System app where you would like it to reside in your system. It can be installed at the Admin, Sub-Account, or Course level.
- Navigate to the Account where you would like the app to reside. (This example will demonstrate adding the app to the Cell Biology Sub-Account at SimBio University.) Click the Settings option in the sidebar, click the Apps tab towards the top of the screen, and click the View App Configuration button.
- Click the +App button.
- Click the Configuration Type drop-down menu and select By Client ID.
- Paste the client id that you created and copied in Step 9 and click Submit.
- Click Install.
- In the list of apps, scroll until you see SimBio Active Learning System. Click on the gear drop-down menu and select Deployment ID.
- Copy the Deployment id that pops up in the next overlay.
- In order for the app to be fully configured, you need to send an email with the following information to julia@simbio.com:
- Client id (from Step 9)
- Deployment id (from Step 17)
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Canvas Domain/URL (To find this information - log into your Canvas Account and from the Dashboard, copy the website URL)
- The SimBio Active Learning System application is now installed in your instance of Canvas. Each professor who would like to use this integration will receive a unique SimUText Key for their course and will use that to connect the application to their SimUText. (Note: If you would like to install the app in multiple sub-accounts, use the same client id but make sure to send all of the different Deployment ID's to SimBio).
- The next step may be done either by the Canvas administrator or the professor. Log into the Canvas Course that will be using that SimUText and from the Settings option in the Course Menu, open the Course Details tab.
- Paste the SimUText Key in the Course Code field.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Update Course Details button.
- Go to Adding the SimBio Active Learning System to an Assignment for next steps.