Canvas Integration (Admin)

If your organization uses a Learning Management System (LMS) for content delivery, you may be able to use Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) protocol to integrate with TechSmith Knowmia. In this example, we’ll walk through integrating Knowmia with Canvas, a Learning Management System made by Instructure.

Why use LTI?

While it’s possible to share media with students using direct links or video embed, an LTI integration allows users to:

View media uploaded to TechSmith Knowmia directly in Canvas using their login credentials.
Automatically transfer completed quiz results from media uploaded to Knowmia into the Canvas Gradebook.

To complete the LTI integration, you will need access to both the Knowmia Site Administration controls and the administration controls of Canvas.

Setting Up an LTI integration on the Knowmia Website

Log in to your Knowmia website as a site administrator.
Click the Site Admin tab.
Under Settings, locate the LTI Integrations section. Click Add a new integration.
Select Canvas from the dropdown and click Create.
- To give the integration a custom name select the Other option. You must also check the box indicating that you use the Canvas LMS.
The integration details are displayed. In the next section, we explain where to copy and paste these fields into Blackboard to complete the integration.

Note: The Consumer Key and Secret are randomly generated and unique to your Knowmia website. You may use these values for multiple Blackboard instances such as testing and production environments.

Canvas integration details

If you need to open the Integration Details at a later time, click the view icon next to the integration name.

Completing the Integration in Canvas

Log in to Canvas as an administrator.
Click the Admin tab and select the account to which you would like to add the LTI integration.
Select Settings from the list of Admin options.
Select the Apps tab. Then click View App Configurations.
Click Add App.
In the Configuration Type dropdown, select By URL.
Enter a name for your LTI integration. Copy and paste the Consumer key, Shared secret (referred to as Consumer Secret in Knowmia) and Config URL into the corresponding fields and click Submit.
Your Knowmia integration is complete.