Connect Möbius to Brightspace

Connect Möbius to Brightspace

Brightspace by D2L is a Learning Management System can be connected to Möbius using LTI 1.3 integration.

Möbius and Brightspace administrators can follow these instructions to connect their system to Möbius.

View my Möbius LTI data

Your Learning Management System will require you to provide data that's specific to your Möbius site.

Check out View my Möbius LTI data for details on how to obtain this data.

Register the Möbius tool in Brightspace

The Möbius LTI Advantage tool must be registered in Brightspace before it can be used in a course.

To register the LTI Advantage tool in Brightspace:

1. Log in to Brightspace as an administrator and click the Settings icon in the top-right corner.

2. Under the Organization Related heading, click Manage Extensibility.

3. Select the LTI Advantage tab, then click Register Tool.

4. On the Register a Tool page, select the Standard radio button.

5. Complete these fields on the Register a Tool page:

   1. Name: Enter a unique name for the new key (Example — Möbius MyInstitution).

   2. Description: Enter a description (Example — Möbius LTI Advantage tool for MyInstitution).

   3. Domain: Enter the domain of your Möbius site (Example — https://myinstitution.mobius.cloud).

   4. Redirect URLs: Enter the Redirect URI value attained from Möbius LTI data.

6. Complete these additional fields on the Register a Tool page (the values below are attained from Möbius LTI data):

   1. OpenID Connect Login URL: Enter the Initiate Login URL.

   2. Target Link URI: Enter the Content Selection URL.

   3. Keyset URL: Enter the Public JWK Set URL.

7. Check all boxes under the Extensions heading and the Roles heading.

8. Click Register.

9. In the table, click the name of your new tool to view and modify tool settings.

10. The registration details of your new LTI tool will be displayed under Brightspace Registration Details. Copy this information, including the Client ID, for the next steps of the setup process.

11. Click the View Deployments link. A new tab will open with the table of deployments.

12. Select the LTI Advantage tab, then click New Deployment.

13. On the Deploy Tool page, select the name of your new tool from the Tool drop-down.

14. Enable the following checkboxes under the Security Settings heading:

    1. Org Unit Information

    2. User Information which will also check the boxes for Name, Email, User ID, Username, and Org Defined Id.

    3. Link Information which will also check the boxes for Title and Description.

15. Check all boxes under the Configuration Settings heading.

16. Click Create Deployment.

17. Under Brightspace Deployment Details, copy the Deployment ID value for the next steps of the setup process.

Add the Brightspace configuration to Möbius

To add the completed Brightspace LTI 1.3 configuration details to Möbius:

1. Click Add Configuration on the Edit LTI Configurations page in Möbius.

2. Complete the fields in the Add LTI 1.3 Configuration window (the values below are attained from Brightspace):

   1. Platform ID: Enter the Issuer.

   2. Deployment ID: Enter the Deployment ID.

   3. Client ID: Enter the Client ID.

   4. Public Keyset URL: Enter the Brightspace Keyset URL.

   5. Access Token URL: Enter the Brightspace OAuth2 Access Token URL .

   6. Authentication Request URL: Enter the OpenID Connect Authentication Endpoint.

   7. Access Token Audience URL: Enter the Brightspace OAuth2 Audience.

3. Click Save.

Set up Möbius deep-linking in Brightspace

Deep Linking is an LTI Advantage feature that simplifies the setup of tool links in a Brightspace course that point to an existing Möbius activity.

Deep Linking is enabled under Extensions category on the Register a Tool page when registering the Möbius tool, and also requires a link associated with the deployment.

To create a link for the configured LTI deployment in Brightspace:

1. In the Administrator Settings, click External Learning Tools under the Organization Related heading.

2. In the table, click the name of your deployment to view and modify deployment settings.

3. Click the View Links link. A new tab will open with the table of links for this deployment.

4. Click New Link.

5. Complete the fields under the Create Link heading:

   1. Name: Enter Möbius LTI as the name for the placement.

   2. URL: Enter the Content Selection URL value attained from Möbius LTI data.

   3. Type: Select Deep Linking Quicklink from the drop-down menu.

6. Click Save and Close to finish creating the link.

Link to a Möbius activity from your Brightspace course

Once the Möbius LTI link is configured, it will appear in the Existing Activities menu for any Brightspace course with access to the link.

To use the configured Möbius LTI link in your Brightspace course:

1. Open your Brightspace course and click Content.

2. Under any module in the course, click Existing Activities.

3. Select Möbius LTI (the name of your link) from the Existing Activities drop-down menu.

4. The Möbius mapping menu will appear in the Add Activity window for configuration of the link destination. Check out Activity mapping for details on completing this configuration and linking to a Möbius activity.

5. The content is added to your Brightspace course, with the name given in the Möbius mapping menu.

Click the Actions button (next to the link) to edit the link destination and control availability of the link through Brightspace.