D2L LTI 1.3 Integration - Adding SL&L activities to a D2L course

Adding SL&L activities to a D2L course

The following instructions will allow you to insert a link in your D2L course that takes students and faculty to a specific activity in Student Learning & Licensure (SL&L).

Please note:

• An activity must be created in SL&L first, before it can be linked to D2L.
• Grade return does not work for Forced Submissions within SL&L. Students must access the SLL activity via the assignment link within D2L in order for a grade to be successfully sent back.

1. Log into your D2L faculty account and navigate to the Content tab for your course
2. Click Add a Module or go to an existing module

3. Click Existing Activities External Learning Tools

   

4. Scroll to the end of the LTI tool list. Click Create New LTI Link.

5. There will be three items to fill out for this step: Title, LTI URL, and Tool.

   • Start by adding a title for the new external learning tool activity. The activity link name should match the name of SL&L activity that the link will be associated with
   • Next, For the LTI URL area, Insert this link: https://sll.watermarkinsights.com/via/lti/v1p3/launch
   • Once the link is added, the tool should be associated with the SL&L tool created by your D2L admin, automatically.

   

6. Click Create and Insert once completed. Note: If an SL&L activity has been sent out across multiple course sections in SL&L, this can also be imitated within D2L. The same SL&L external tool link can be used to connect to that activity across multiple D2L course sections.
7. The external tool assignment link will be displayed in the D2L module content.
8. IF the tool has not been set to open as an external resource at the tool level, complete the following steps:

   1. Click the Actions icon to the right of the link, and click Edit Properties In-place

      

   2. Ensure that Open as External Resource is selected

   3. Check the setting Open as External Resource

      

9. Click on your module link displayed on the left side of the page to view the updated link.

   

10. Click on the LTI link

11. A new tab will open. Choose the Specific Activity option

    

12. Choose a group and activity from SL&L, and click SELECT & SAVE in the upper right corner of the page

    

13. A Success message will be displayed on the page.

    

14. Close this tab and return to your D2L tab

Adding a D2L Grade Item

NOTE: If you are using grade return, you may add a grade item for your D2L assignment. If the ‘Auto Create Grade Items' setting is enabled in the D2L LTI 1.3 set up to automatically create a grade item at the tool level a Grade Item selection SHOULD NOT BE MADE in the D2L assignments.

See the Configuration Settings in Admin Configuration guide as a reference.

1. From this page you will define the grade for your assignment by clicking Add a grade item...

2. Click + New Grade Item
3. Enter a Name of your choice
4. Select a Category or create a new Category (optional)
5. Enter a Description (optional)
6. For Maximum Points, enter the desired maximum grade value
7. Enter the Weight (%) that you want the grade item to contribute to the category or final grade. If a grade item is within a category you must specify the weight as % of the category, not the final grade. E.g. 25% of a category worth 30%.
8. For Grade Scheme, select an option Percentage. (Grade schemes let you represent users’ grades with symbols or labels. E.g. A,B,C or 4.0, 3.5, 3.0)
9. Click Create
10. Click Save

11. The assignment link is now created. Clicking the Open in New Window button will take you directly to the SL&L activity

    

Disconnecting a SL&L activity from a D2L assignment

1. Navigate to the activity in SL&L as either an instructor or administrator
2. Click the "more options" button (three dots) on the right side of the page

3. Click "Disconnect LMS Link"

   

Using Deep Linking to Bulk Create and Link D2L Assignments to SL&L Activities

Once you have enabled Deep Linking for your LTI 1.3 integration between D2L and SL&L, your D2L Course Admins and D2L Course Instructors can begin to use it to bulk create and link D2L assignments based on SL&L activities.

1. The D2L Course Admins and D2L Course Instructors can access the Deep Linking workflow from their D2L Course from the Existing Activities menu for any module in the Content area (you can reach out to your D2L Administrator to know about the title of the Deep Linking access point).
2. Once you access the Deep Linking workflow option, a pop up will be displayed where in you will be able to view a paginated list of activities (20 activities per page) from the course sections that you have access to in SL&L.

   1. If you are an administrator in SL&L, you will see a list of activities from open course sections that belong to the hierarchy nodes to which you have access.

   2. If you are an instructor in SL&L, you will see a list of activities from the open course sections for which you an the instructor.

   3. The list only includes activities that have been published, but are not linked to any LMS assignment.

3. You can filter the list of activities in the following ways:

   1. By searching based on Activity Title, Course Code, and Section Name.

   2. Using the View drop-down: This drop-down enables you to filter the list of activities based on 3 options.

      1. Activities from all sections: Selecting this option displays a list of published, but unlinked activities from all open course sections that you have access to in SL&L.

         NOTE: If you do not have access to any open course sections as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course Instructor OR if no published activities have been created in the open course sections that you have access to as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course Instructor OR if all activities from the open course that you have access to as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course are already linked to an LMS assignment, an empty state message will be displayed.

      2. Activities from matched sections: Selecting this option displays a list of published, but unlinked activities from course sections that you have access to in SL&L, which match the D2L Course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name.

         NOTE: From among the open course sections to which you have access as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course Instructor, if there are no course sections that match the D2L course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name OR if no published activities have been created in the course sections that match the D2L course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name OR if all published activities from the course sections that match the D2L course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name are already linked to an LMS assignment, an empty state message will be displayed if you select the Activities from matched sections option.

      3. Selected Activities: Selecting this option displays a list of activities that you have selected after accessing the Deep Linking workflow page.

         NOTE: If you have not made any selections on the Deep Linking workflow page, an empty state message will be displayed if you select the Selected Activities option.

4. Search and select the activities that you would like to create and link as D2L Assignments.
5. Click the Add Activities button.