Canvas Admin - Enable the SoftChalk Link Selector App

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 (see the steps below).

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

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4. At the bottom left, click Settings (see below).

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5. Select Apps tab and then select View App Configurations. Then select Add App (see below).
   
   

6. Fill in the information on this screen (see the next page) 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. IMPORTANT- Make sure to delete the extra space picked up at the 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. Click Submit.
   
   https://softchalk.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/272826374/SoftChalk_Link_Selector_XMLconfig.txt?version=3&modificationDate=1572990332832&cacheVersion=1&api=v2&download=true
   
   Be sure to click Submit once you have entered your information.
   
   

    

7. The SoftChalk Link Selector will then be listed under External Apps. Click on the Gear icon to the right of the SoftChalk Link Selector listed.

    

8. Choose Edit.

9. Enter http://softchalkcloud.com in the Domain field.

10. Click Submit.

11. Test an LTI Link to see that grades go into the Canvas gradebook.

IMPORTANT: As previously mentioned, be sure to LOG OUT of your SoftChalk Cloud account when you are taking your lesson as a student to test the ScoreCenter feature. (If you are logged into your SoftChalk Cloud account while logged into Canvas and taking a lesson, then the scores won’t be recorded.)