Canvas SoftChalk Link Selector App set up

The steps below are for your Canvas administrator to enable the LTI/ScoreCenter feature for your Canvas server. For details on the LTI/ScoreCenter feature, see the section Scored Lessons (Cloud Users).

As a Canvas administrator to use the ScoreCenter feature, you need to register with SoftChalk and configure the ScoreCenter for your system.

  1. Please contact help@softchalk.com and provide the following information to register with SoftChalk and receive authentication credentials (i.e. an OAuth Consumer Key and an OAuth Consumer Secret). If you have a test server and a production server, you may send us two LMS URLs and we will register both of them. (You will receive a separate email with a unique key and secret for each registered URL.)

a.  Your institution name

b.   LMS URL

c.   First Name (optional) of the person registering with us

d.   Last Name (optional) of the person registering with us

e.   Email for this registration (the email can be a specific person's email or a generic email such as lmsadmin@myinstitution.edu)

2. After registering, you will receive an email from SoftChalk with information to enter into your Canvas system

3. Log into your Canvas administrator account. Under the Admin menu and click on the name of your institution

4. At the bottom left, click Settings

5. Select Apps tab and then select View App Configurations. Then select Add App

6. Fill in the information on this screen by copying the information from the email you received from SoftChalk after you registered.

a.    Choose Paste XML as the Configuration Type.

b.    Enter SoftChalk Link Selector for the Tool Name.

c.    Enter both the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret. Consumer Secret in the email is the same as Shared Secret on this screen.

Make sure to delete any extra space picked up at the beginning or end of the key and secret after you copy paste that information from the SoftChalk email.


d.    Click on the link below to download the XML file. Copy/Paste the XML into the text entry field in Canvas when setting up the tool.

https://softchalk.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/272826374/SoftChalk_Link_Selector_XMLconfig.txt?version=3&modificationDate=1572990332832&cacheVersion=1&api=v2&download=true

7. Click Submit.

The SoftChalk Link Selector will then be listed under External Apps.

8. Click on the Gear icon to the right of the SoftChalk Link Selector listed.

9. Choose Edit.

10. Enter softchalkcloud.com in the Domain field.

11. Click Submit.

Congratulations! You have successfully set up SoftChalk to work with your Canvas environment.
Please contact SoftChalk Support with any questions.

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