Tuesday, February 24, 2015

20150223 Respondus Install

Install Respondus in Blackboard and Canvas

Blackboard
1. Get the building block: www.respondus.com, username gregory.orcutt@uth.tmc.edu + password
2. Create new server profile; a download link will appear
bb-Respondus-LDB-BuildingBlock-3.3.3.war
3. Install Building Block (sysadmin tab, Building Blocks, installed tools, upload building blocks)
4. Config is set automatically
5. Restart server

Canvas
1. Login to Respondus: www.respondus.com, username gregory.orcutt@uth.tmc.edu + password
2. Create new server profile
3. After profile is created, "Download settings for External App configuration on Canvas server"
4. On Canvas, go to Settings, Apps, View App Configuration, Add App, and paste settings as defined above
5. Send the secure browser download URL (visible from the respondus.com website) to Instructure and ask them to turn on the LockDown Browser plugin
6. Test integration from the Respondus page, "Click here to test the integration"

1 comment:

  1. This plugin stopped working on Feb 26, 2015. "Not working" means:
    1. within a Canvas course, clicking the LockDown Browser navigation link leads to an error
    2. when re-attempting the config in Canvas, an error appears "Unexpected error. Please contact the system administrator"
    3. Attempting to delete and reinstall the LTI gave an error:
    while(1);{"message":"invalid redirect_uri"}

    The solution turned out to be to DELETE the existing LTI and recreating it with a different name (this time LockDown Browser Dashboard)

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