Connect your LMS with a registration address
Paste one address into Canvas, Moodle, Brightspace or another LMS, and it registers Taktyl itself.
Most LMSs can register Taktyl themselves. You copy one address from Taktyl and paste it into your LMS, and the LMS does the rest: there is nothing to type back into Taktyl. This is called dynamic registration. It works with Canvas, Moodle, D2L Brightspace and most other LMSs that support LTI 1.3.
You need to be an organisation admin in Taktyl, and you need someone who can open the admin settings of your LMS. Your plan must include LMS integrations.
Copy the address from Taktyl
- Go to Organisation › Integrations and open LMS connections.
- Press Register from your LMS.
- Choose your LMS from the list. The steps under the address change to match it.
- Press Copy beside Registration address.
The address is made for your organisation and that LMS only. It works for 24 hours. If it runs out, open the page again and copy a new one.
Paste it into your LMS
Canvas
- Go to Admin, choose your account and open Developer Keys.
- Press + Developer Key, choose LTI Registration, and paste the address where Canvas asks for it.
- Finish Canvas's own steps. A small window says "Taktyl is connected".
- Back in Developer Keys, switch the new Taktyl key On. Canvas makes every new key Off.
- In Admin or a course's Settings, open Apps, press + App, choose By Client ID and paste the key's Client ID, so courses can use it.
Moodle
- Go to Site administration, then Plugins › Activity modules › External tool › Manage tools.
- Paste the address into Tool URL and press Add LTI Advantage.
- Press Activate on the new Taktyl tool, so teachers can add it to a course.
D2L Brightspace
- Open Admin Tools › Manage Extensibility, then the LTI Advantage tab, and press Register Tool.
- Choose Dynamic, paste the address as the tool initiation registration endpoint, tick Configure Deployment and press Register.
- Open the new deployment and choose the org units that may use Taktyl.
Another LMS
Look for an LTI 1.3 registration screen that takes a URL. Some LMSs call it LTI Advantage or dynamic registration. Paste the address there.
When it is done
The connection appears under LMS connections in Taktyl, with your LMS's issuer, Client ID and deployment. Teachers can now add Taktyl activities from their courses, and marks can go to the gradebook.
Taktyl asks your LMS for only what it uses: the gradebook, and each student's own opening and closing dates for an activity. It does not ask for your class lists.
Registering again from the same LMS keeps the same connection and adds the new deployment to it.
If it does not finish
The small window says why. The usual reasons:
- The address has expired. Copy a new one and paste it again.
- Your plan no longer includes LMS integrations. See Organisation › Billing.
- The LMS is already connected to another organisation in Taktyl. Ask your LMS administrator for a separate deployment.
- Blackboard Learn. Not every Blackboard finishes this. Use Connect another LMS instead, with your deployment ID. See Connect Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace or another LMS.
For Canvas you can also use Connect Canvas, which makes a configuration address and asks for the Client ID. See Connect Canvas.