D2L LTI 1.3 Integration - Administrator Setup

Admin Setup Instructions

  1. Log into a LiveText administrator account
  2. Click Admin
  3. Click LTI 1.3 on the right side of the page
  4. Select D2L from the LMS dropdown and enter the URL for your D2L environment in the LMS URL field
  5. Log into a D2L administrator account
  6. Go to Admin Tools Manage Extensibility
  7. Go to the LTI Advantage Tab and click on Register Tool
  8. Select Standard
  9. Enter the following information create the tool:
    • Enter a Name
    • Enter a Description
    • Enter the Domain: https://www.livetext.com
    • Copy the Initiate Login URL from LiveText and paste it into the OpenID Connect Login URL field in D2L
    • Copy the Redirection URL from LiveText and paste it into the Redirect URLs field in D2L
    • Copy the Public Keyset URL from LiveText and paste it into the Keyset URL field in D2L
  10. Under Extensions, select all three options:
    • Assignment and Grade Services
    • Deep Linking
    • Names and Role Provisioning Services
  11. Make sure the checkbox to Send Institution Role is unchecked
  12. Click Register
  13. Once the new LTI 1.3 tool is registered, the Brightspace Registration Details will be displayed (Note: these details can also be seen by clicking on the LTI Advantage Tool). Copy the Client ID and paste it into the Client ID field in LiveText
  14. Copy the Brightspace Keyset URL and paste it into the Public keyset URL field in LiveText
  15. Copy the Brightspace OAuth2 Access Token URL and paste it into the Access token URL field in LiveText
  16. Copy the Issuer and paste it into the Issuer field in LiveText

Tool Deployment

Next, create a Deployment for the new tool that was just created, either from the Creation screen or the
Edit Tool screen.

Introduction: Deployments allow sharing of registered tools in D2L to specific org units or descendants
of parent org units.

Registered tools can have multiple deployments. Each individual deployment can be unique, supporting
the ability for different LTI extensions and Security Settings per deployment. Links can be created for use
in the org unit(s) from the Deployment, or users with permissions can create individual links at the org
level that link to the deployment.

  1. Log into a D2L administrator account
  2. Go to Admin Tools External Learning Tools
  3. Go to the LTI Advantage tab
  4. Click on the New Deployment button
  5. 5. Select the LTI 1.3 tool that you created
  6. Enter a Name
  7. Enter a Description
  8. Ensure the following Extensions are selected:
    • Assignment and Grade Services
    • Deep Linking
    • Names and Role Provisioning Services
  9. Ensure the following settings are selected:
    • Org Unit Information
    • User Information
      • Name
        • First Name
        • Middle Name
        • Last Name
      • Email
      • User ID
      • Username
      • Org Defined ID
    • Link Information
      • Title
      • Description
    • Classlist including users not known to this deployment
  10. Click the Add Org Units button. Search for the topmost unit and enable “This org unit and all descendants”. This will allow the tool to be available at the course. It will allow faculty to create unique individual external tools from within a course.
    NOTE: This will allow faculty to create unique individual external tools from within a course. The external tool created by faculty members will be automatically associated with the SL&L external tool.
  11. Click Create Deployment
  12. After a successful Deployment creation, D2L will display the Deployment ID. Copy this ID and paste it into the Deployment ID field in LiveText
  13. Click Save
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