Documentation for Faculty Tools

Settings

Create a new settings.py file from the template

cp settings.py.template settings.py

Edit settings.py to configure the application. All fields are required, unless specifically noted.

Developer Key

You will need a developer key for the OAuth2 flow. Check out the Canvas documentation for creating a new developer key

• Have your redirect URI (oauth2_uri) ready, since you need it to make the key.
• When you make a key, copy the ID to oauth2_id and the key into oauth2_key in your settings file.

Tool Whitelist

Add the tools you want instructors and faculty to see to whitelist.json.

[
    {
        // The name of the tool from within the Settings page
        "name": "Installed Tool Name",
        // The unique tool id, not currently used
        "tool_id": "tool_id",
        // Allows viewable name to be different from installed name, ie: Attendance vs. RollCall
        "display_name": "Name to Display",
        // Short description of the tool to be displayed to the user
        "desc": "Tool Description",
        // Filename of screenshot. Must be in static/img/screenshots
        "screenshot": "screenshot.png",
        // Filename of logo. Must be in static/img/logos
        "logo": "logo.svg",
        // Link to the tool's documentation. Appears as the Learn More button
        "docs_url": "https://example.com/tool/docs/",
        // Turns off/on launch button inside Faculty Tools - Useful for docs
        "is_launchable": true,
        // What category to put the tool in. Options: Course Tool, Assignment Editor, Rich Content Editor
        "category": "Course Tool",
        // For future use
        "filter_by": ["all"],
        "allowed_roles": [""],
    },
]

Virtual Environment

Create a new virtual environment.

virtualenv env

Activate the environment.

source env/bin/activate

Install everything:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create DB

Change directory into the project folder. Create the database in python shell:

from lti import db
db.create_all()

If you want to look at your users table in the future, you can do so in the python shell:

from lti import Users
Users.query.all()

Environment Variables

Set the flask app to lti.py and debug to true.

export FLASK_APP=lti.py
export FLASK_DEBUG=1

Alternatively, you can run the setup script to simultaneously setup environment variables and the virtual environment.

source setup.sh

Run the App

Run the lti script while your virtual environment is active.

flask run

Go to the /xml page, http://0.0.0.0:5000/xml by default

Copy the xml, install it into a course.