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Admin Dashboard

Integrating Brightspace With Blocksi

You must add all teacher and student accounts and pull your Brightspace credentials from the Blocksi Brightspace site and set up all teacher and student accounts on Brightspace.

Provide these instructions to the district administrator.

To integrate Brightspace with Blocksi

  1. Go to your school's domain account at district.brightspace.com, where district is your organization.

  2. Login as District Admin.

  3. Click the Gear icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

  4. Click the Manage Extensibility link in the Organization Related section.

    Note

    You must register apps for both the Admin and Teacher Dashboards. See the following procedures.

Registering the Admin App

  1. Click the Register an app button to create an app for the Admin Dashboard.

  2. Type Blocksi for Blocksi Manager in the Application Name field.

  3. Type https://bm.blocksi.net/teacher_accounts/brightspace in the Redirect URL field.

  4. Type core:*:* in the Scope field.

  5. Type 18000 in the Access Token Lifetime (seconds) field.

  6. Select the I accept the Non-Commercial Developer Agreement checkbox.

  7. Click Register.

Registering the Teacher App

  1. Click the Register App button to create an app for the Teacher Dashboard.

  2. Type Blocksi for Teacher Dashboard in the Application Name field.

  3. Type https://teacher.blocksi.net/brightspace/login/ in the Redirect URL field.

  4. Type core:*:* in the Scope field.

  5. Type 18000 in the Access Token Lifetime (seconds) field.

  6. Select the I accept the Non-Commercial Developer Agreement checkbox.

  7. Click Register.

To obtain the Client ID and Client Secret for the Admin Dashboard

  1. Click the Blocksi for Blocksi Manager app name to display the app information.

  2. Copy the Client ID and paste it into the corresponding field in the Brightspace Credentials: Admin Dashboard section on the Teacher Dashboard Settings page on the Admin Dashboard.

  3. Copy the Client Secret and paste it into the corresponding field in the Brightspace Credentials: Admin Dashboard section on the Teacher Dashboard Settings page on the Admin Dashboard.

To obtain the Client ID and Client Secret for the Teacher Dashboard

  1. Click the Blocksi for Teacher Dashboard app name to display the app information.

  2. Copy the Client ID and paste it into the corresponding field in the Brightspace Credentials: Teacher Dashboard section on the Teacher Dashboard Settings page on the Admin Dashboard.

  3. Copy the Client Secret and paste it into the corresponding field in the Brightspace Credentials: Teacher Dashboard section on the Teacher Dashboard Settings page on the Admin Dashboard.

Additional information regarding the classes

To ensure that the class is correctly imported on the Teacher Dashboard, add the class to the table under d2l.Tools.Classlist.DisplayEmail ( OrgUnit )

Do the following

  1. Navigate to the Brightspace home page.

  2. Click the Gear icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

  3. Click the Config Variable Browser link in the Organization Related section.

  4. Click Tools in the navigation bar to the left, and then click Classlist.

  5. Click DisplayEmail, and then click Add Value.

  6. Type the Org Unit ID of the class you want to import on the Teacher Dashboard or click Select an Org Unit in the list to find your class.

  7. Click Update.

  8. Change the value to ON.

  9. Click Save. The class appears.

You must also check the org unit of the class in Brightspace.

Do the following

  1. Navigate to the Brightspace home page.

  2. Click the Gear icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

  3. Click the Org Unit Editor link in the Organization Related section.

  4. Click the class name. The data about the class appears.