For general information about LTI, see our LTI 1.3 / Advantage Tool documentation. This document only applies to integration with the Brightspace LMS.
1. Quick installation
This guide will explain how set up LTI integration with Brightspace, with these features:
- It will automatically enrol Brightspace students and instructors in Electude groups with their name and email address.
- The groups are automatically created in Electude. The name of each group will match the Course Offering Code in Brightspace.
- In Brightspace instructors will be able to add links to Electude content in a Brightspace course module via the Add Existing button, either as a deep link to a specific Electude course or module, or as a direct access link to Electude for instructors and students (if desired).
- Grades will automatically be added to the course in Brightspace if a student completes a module in Electude.
1.1. Log in to Electude and go to External access settings
- Log in to your Electude administrator account.
- Navigate to External access on the Settings tab.
- In the Edit settings form, check Allow sites in frame.
- Set Direct access to LTI 1.3.
- In the Use defaults for drop down, select Brightspace.
- Change the domain name of the platforms URLs in Electude to match your Brightspace site. The screen should now look like this:
- Keep this page open as you continue, because you need to copy settings to and from Brightspace.
1.2. Log in to Brightspace and register the tool
- Log in to your Brightspace Super Administrator account in a new browser tab.
- Click the gear icon in the top-left corner and select Manage Extensibility
- Select the LTI Advantage tab and click the Register Tool button
- Set the Name to Electude LTI.
- Set the Domain to your Electude site URL, e.g.
https://your.electude.com. - Copy the following values from Electude to Brightspace:
Electude Brightspace Launch URL (target_link_uri) Redirect URLs OIDC authorization URL OpenID Connect Login URL JWK set URL (jwks_uri) Keyset URL
- Check the following fields under Extensions:
- Assignment and Grades Services
- Deep Linking
- Click the Register button.
- Click the Connection Info button of the new tool and copy the Client ID to Electude.
1.3. Create LTI Deployment
- Click the gear icon in the top-left corner and select External Learning Tools.
- Select the LTI Advantage tab and click the New Deployment button.
- Select the Tool you just created,
Electude LTI. - Check the following fields under Security settings:
- Org Unit Information
- User information
- Link information
- Make the tool available to the placements that you wish through the Add org units button.
- Click the Create Deployment button.
- Copy the Deployment Id to Electude. The screen should now look like this:
- Save the settings by clicking ok.
1.4. Create links
- In Brightspace, open the LTI Advantage Deployment created in the previous step.
- Scroll to the bottom and click View Links
For Deep Linking:
- Click the New Link button.
- Set the Name to
Electude Quicklink Deeplink - Copy the Launch URL (target_link_uri) from Electude to the new link's URL
- Select Deep Linking Quicklink as Type
- Click Save and Close
For direct access:
- Click the New Link button again.
- Set the Name to
Electude Direct Access - Copy the Launch URL (target_link_uri) from Electude to the new link's URL
- Select Basic Launch as Type
- Click Save and Close
1.5. Configure Result Notifications
- In Electude go to the Result notifications settings.
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The setting 'Do not create line item automatically, only send grades for existing line items' allows you to determine for which modules student results are or are not passed on to your LMS. If you enable the setting, only grades of modules that have been added by teachers through the ’Select as LTI tool with line item’ will be sent to eightspace. If you disable the setting, all grades of modules with types that have been selected in the 'Module filter' will be sent to Brightspace.
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Check all types of modules for which the Electude LMS should pass grades to Brightspace. Typically you should select all types, but you can e.g. limit this to tests only. If no grades should be passed at all, you can leave all checkboxes unchecked.
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Save the settings by clicking ok.
This concludes the Electude integration with Brightspace.
Note: The following sections should only be used if you have to deviate from the default.
2. Enhanced privacy
If you do not want to populate Electude accounts with name and email addresses, you can switch this off.
Important: note that the administrator and teachers in the Electude LMS will not be able to see which person is associated with a user account.
In step 1.3. Create LTI Deployment uncheck the items (e.g. name and email) you do not want to share.
As an administrator in Electude in the Privacy settings, set Change account details to Users cannot change their account details.
