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Brightspace integration

LTI 1.3 (recommended)

Please contact us at instructors@accepi.com if you have any questions.

You need to have Brightspace administrator privileges to add Accepi as an external tool to Brightspace. Please ask your Brightspace administrator to complete the steps below:

  1. Register an external learning tool for LTI Advantage following these instructions:
    • Log in to Brightspace as an administrator.
    • Ensure the Manage LTI Advantage Tool Registrations and Manage LTI Advantage Tool Deployments permissions are set at the organization level.
    • From the Admin Tools menu, click Manage Extensibility.
    • In the LTI Advantage tab, click Register Tool.
    • Choose Standard registration, click Register.
    • Enter the following information:
      • Name: Accepi
      • Description: Online homework, quizzes and exams (or skip this)
      • Domain: https://accepi.com
      • Redirect URLs (click + Add Redirect URL to add the second URL): https://accepi.com/ltiLaunch, https://accepi.com/ltiSelection
      • OpenID Connect Login URL: https://accepi.com/oidcLogin
      • Target Link URI: https://accepi.com/ltiLaunch
      • Keyset URL: https://accepi.com/.well-known/jwks.json
    • Enable the following extensions:
      • Assignment and Grade Services
      • Deep Linking
    • Under Roles, check the Send Institution Role checkbox.
    • Click Register.
    • After registering the tool, a pop-up message confirms your new learning tool details. Click on the View Deployments button, and record the following fields:
      • Client Id
      • Brightspace Keyset URL
      • Brightspace OAuth2 Access Token URL
      • OpenId Connect Authentication Endpoint
      • Brightspace OAuth 2 Audience
      • Issuer
    • Use the Save button to complete this stage of your registration.
  2. Deploy the Accepi tool to Brightspace following these instructions:
    • From the Admin Tools menu, click External Learning Tools.
    • In the LTI Advantage tab, click New Deployment.
    • From the Tool drop-down list, select the newly created Accepi tool.
    • Enter a name: Accepi integration.
    • Ensure the following extensions are enabled:
      • Assignment and Grade Services
      • Deep Linking
    • Ensure the following settings are selected/configured:
      • Org Unit Information
      • User Information
      • Name
      • User Id
      • Org Defined ID
    • Ensure the Deployment is shared with the correct Org units by using the Add Org Units button.
    • Click Create Deployment.
    • Once the tool is successfully deployed, you receive a Deployment Id.
  3. Please send the following information to instructors@accepi.com. It usually takes us 24 hours to process the information. Once done, the instructor can use Accepi in Brightspace:
    1. Client Id
    2. Brightspace Keyset URL
    3. Brightspace OAuth2 Access Token URL
    4. OpenId Connect Authentication Endpoint
    5. Brightspace OAuth 2 Audience
    6. Issuer
    7. Deployment Id
  4. Create an external learning link to Accepi following these instructions:
    • On the LTI Advantage tab, select an existing deployment.
    • Scroll to the bottom and click View Links.
    • Click New Link.
    • Complete the following fields on the Create Link screen:
      • Name: Accepi integration
      • URL: https://accepi.com/ltiSelection
      • Description: Select Accepi assignments
      • Type: Deep Linking Quicklink
    • Leave the height and width at their default values.
    • Click Save and Close.
  5. The instructor can now add Accepi assignments to the course:
    • Click on "Accepi integration" in the quicklink menu area.
    • Log in with your Accepi email and password (you only have to do this once).
    • Choose the course from your Accepi courses that you want to integrate into Brightspace.
    • Choose the assignments that you want to integrate into Brightspace.
    • Click on "Submit" and wait.

LTI 1.1 (deprecated)

Log in directly on the Accepi website (not through the LMS), create a new course and choose the "LMS LTI 1.1" access type on the course page. Leave this window open and log into your LMS in a different window or tab. Add a new content link or assignment and copy and paste the information from the course page: the consumer key and shared secret, and either the launch or the configuration URL.

An administrator has to add Accepi as an external tool:

  1. On the Accepi website, create a new course or navigate to the course that you want to integrate into Brightspace (Note: Do not change the integration method while a course is in progress, or all student data will be recorded and reported separately for the two integration methods)
  2. For the course that you want to integrate, please change the access type to "LMS LTI 1.1"
  3. Log into Brightspace as an administrator
  4. From the Admin Tools menu (the gear icon), click External Learning Tools
  5. Click the Manage Tool Providers tab
  6. Click New Tool Provider
  7. In the Launch Point field, enter "accepi.com/launch"
  8. In the Version field, choose "1.1"
  9. In the OAuth Signature Method field, choose "HMAC-SHA1"
  10. In the Secret field, enter the shared secret from the Accepi course page
  11. Check the "Use custom tool consumer information instead of default" check box and enter the consumer key from the Accepi course page
  12. Under Security Settings, check the boxes for tool consumer information, context information, course information, LTI user ID and role, user name, and system role
  13. Under "Make tool provider available to:" click on the "Add Org Units" button" and select the courses that are allowed to use Accepi.
  14. Click Save

Set up integration with a tool provider

The instructor can then integrate Accepi into their Brightspace course:

  1. Logged into Brightspace, go to your course
  2. Click on "Content" on the main navigation menu
  3. Click on the “Add Existing Activities” button
  4. Click on the “External Learning Tools” menu item
  5. Select "Create New LTI Link"
  6. Enter a name, e.g., homework or Accepi, and "https://accepi.com/launch" as the LTI URL
  7. Click "Create and Insert"
  8. Return to the assignments list and locate the assignment you just created and click on it
  9. Scroll down to the Activity Details box at the bottom of the page. Under the heading "Assessment", click "Add a grade item"
  10. Click the "+" button, add a name and set a point value (100 is good)
  11. Click on "Create" at the bottom, then the blue "Save" button
  12. Return to the assignments list and locate the assignment you just created. Click the small arrow next to the assignment title and select "Edit properties in-place"
  13. Check the box labeled "Open as External Resource"
  14. Click on "Update"

Add an existing course object to Content