Connect Canvas

Link your Canvas to Taktyl in two steps, so teachers can add activities to their courses and marks go to the gradebook.

Connecting Canvas lets teachers add Taktyl activities to their courses. Students open them inside Canvas, and marks can go to the Canvas gradebook. You need to be an organisation admin in Taktyl, and you need someone who can open the Admin settings in Canvas.

Keep Canvas open in another tab while you work.

There are two ways. The steps below make a configuration address and ask for the Client ID. Or Canvas can register Taktyl itself from one address: see Connect your LMS with a registration address.

Start the connection in Taktyl

Go to Organisation › Integrations.
Press Connect Canvas.
Give it a Name if you like, such as "Canvas production". This is only for you.
Press Start the connection.

The connection now shows "Waiting for its Client ID". Its card has two values, each with a Copy button: the Configuration address and Redirect URIs.

Make a Developer Key in Canvas

In Canvas, go to Admin › Developer Keys › + Developer Key › LTI Key.
Set Configure Method to Enter URL and paste the Configuration address.
Paste the Redirect URIs value into its own box. It must be exactly this address.
Save the key and switch it On.
Copy its Client ID. It is the number in the Details column.

Finish in Taktyl, then in Canvas

Back on Organisation › Integrations, paste the number into Client ID on the connection's card.
Press Save and connect. The card now says "Connected".
In Canvas, go to Settings › Apps and add the app By Client ID with the same number, so courses can use it.

Teachers can now add a Taktyl activity from a Canvas module or assignment. The card shows when Taktyl was last opened from this Canvas.

If you ever need to change the number, paste the new one and press Save Client ID.