First, a Canvas Connection needs to be setup in Mathspace to connect with the school’s Canvas site
This requires liaising between Mathspace support staff and the Canvas administrator at the school. See the setup process below.
The teacher needs to launch Mathspace from their course's modules
When the link is followed by a teacher or student, the course will be setup in Mathspace
That one course and its members will be copied into Mathspace, as class and user accounts. See following diagram.
The user will then be automatically logged into Mathspace
Students will login to their Student Dashboard page to see upcoming tasks and access features such as our textbook content, worksheets and practice questions.
Teachers will login to the Teacher Planner page for the class they came from.
Once per day, Mathspace will update each class and user to match the Canvas data
This will only occur for courses that were initiated by teachers via the previous step.
This is to prevent non-maths classes and users turning up in Mathspace.
Setup process
The Canvas administrator at the school will need to add a developer key:
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Go to Admin
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Choose the root account
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Click Developer Keys
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Click +Developer Key → +LTI Key
Fill out with these fields:
Click Save
Activate the developer key:
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In Developer Keys, look for the Mathspace LTI Link key and set its State to enabled
In Developer Keys, look for the Mathspace LTI Link key and set its State to enabled
Set the correct privacy level on the developer key:
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In Developer Keys, look for the Mathspace LTI Link key and click the Pencil icon to edit it
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Expand the Additional Settings section
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Ensure that Privacy Level is set to Public
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Click Save
Share these details with your Mathspace school consultant or support at support.team@mathspace.co
Mathspace will process the LTI link details and confirm when it is done
When confirmed, we can continue to the next step.
The Canvas administrator installs the LTI app
When logged into the Canvas site as an administrator:
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Go to Admin
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Choose the root account
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Click Settings → Apps → View App Configurations
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Click +App
Fill out with these fields:
The Canvas administrator installs the LTI link in each math course, blueprint course or course template
When logged into the Canvas site as an administrator:
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Navigate to the course. (To make this change to many courses, it would be best to use a blueprint course or course template)
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Go to the Modules page
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Click the + icon in one of the module sections to add an item
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Fill out with these fields:
The Canvas administrator can test the LTI link and verify it works correctly
Click the newly added Mathspace link in the Modules page to verify that it works correctly. It is also possible to impersonate a student or teacher on the Canvas site, and follow the Mathspace link to test that user's login into Mathspace.