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Understanding Remote Plugin Services
Remote Plugins use the LTI standard connection framework to integrate with third-party services or tool providers to add additional media-rich function to the learning management system. D2L also supports Content-Item Message services. Content-Item message (CIM) is an LTI extension for exchanging content between tool…
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Configure Learning Tool Interoperability (Legacy LTI 1.1) support
Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is a proposed standard for passing user, organization, and course information between learning management systems (tool consumers) and learning tools and tool providers, such as wikis, simulations, assessment tools, protected content, and so on. Brightspace supports LTI 1.0 and 1.1.…
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Understanding LTI Custom Parameter Substitute Variables
The LTI service, Content-Item Message (1.0), allows instructors to insert third party content into Brightspace once you have created the standard integration for that third party tool using the existing remote plugin work flow. Custom parameter substitution variables allow specific values to be dynamically substituted for…
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Set up integration with a tool provider that is restricted to a specific org unit and its child org units
Set up integration with a tool provider that is restricted to a specific org unit and its child org units In the Admin Tools menu, click External Learning Tools. On the Manage External Learning Tool Links page, click Settings. Update the org unit ID (default value is the org unit ID), title (default value is the course…
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Adding a Content-Item Message certified third-party tool
From the Admin Tools menu, click Remote Plugins. On the Manage Remote Plugins page, click New Remote Plugin. From the Plugin Type drop-down list, do one of the following:* If you want to add the third-party tool as a source of content when using Insert Quicklink or when creating content topics from Content, select…
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Set your organization's default tool consumer information
Set your organization's default tool consumer information From the Admin Tools menu, click External Learning Tools. Click Settings. In the Configure Tool Consumer Information section, complete the fields that appear. Click Save and Close.
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Removing a Content-Item Message certified third-party tool
From the Admin Tools menu, click Remote Plugins. From the title drop-down menu of the third party tool you want to remove, select Delete. The third party tool is removed from the table on the Manage Remote Plugins page and from the menus it was added to in Brightspace. Note: Content added using the third party tool is not…
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Set up customization options for a tool provider
Set up a link to a tool provider From the Admin Tools menu, click External Learning Tools. In the Manage External Learning Tool Links tab, click New Link. In the Title field, enter a title for the tool provider that will appear in the Quicklinks tool. In the URL field, enter the complete URL supplied by the tool provider…
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Set up integration with a tool provider
The LTI service, Content-Item Message (1.0), allows instructors to insert third party content into Brightspace once you have created the standard integration for that third party tool using the existing remote plugin work flow. Similar to configuring tool providers at the org level, configuring tool providers at the org…
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Map roles and org units in your organization to standard IMS roles and context types
From the Admin Tools menu, click IMS Configuration. Do either of the following:* To map roles, click the Roles tab. Select the check boxes for the roles you want to map. * To map org unit types, click the Org Unit Types tab. Select the check boxes for the types you want to map. Click Save.