LTI Integrations

Flocabulary currently supports LTI v 1.0. This enables account creation on a one-off basis for teachers and students and then allows them to sign into Flocabulary through SSO-style links in their learning management system. This integration is available to school and district customers. 

Please note that Flocabulary only supports account creation and SSO from LMSs and does not currently support grade passback or embedding content into an LMS. Flocabulary also does not support rostering through LMS, and each account must be created one by one by teachers and students. 

In this article you will find information on the following tasks. 

• Creating a key and secret for an LTI integration
• Creating an LTI integration with Canvas
• Deleting an LTI integration

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Creating a key and secret for an LTI integration

For a school subscription: 

Managers of school subscriptions can generate keys and secrets for LTI integration through the Flocabulary website. On the Flocabulary homepage, look for the “My Schools” section and click the 3-dot menu, then “Integrations.”

In the integrations section, click “Authorize an Integration” and give the integration a name that will help you track which integration the authorization is for (e.g. ‘Canvas’). 

Click “Create Authorization,” and the key and secret will be generated. You will need this key and secret for the setup process (see below).

For a district subscription: 

Flocabulary Support will generate a key and secret for you. Please contact our Integrations Team here for assistance: [e-mail]. 

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Creating an LTI integration with Canvas

First, follow the instructions above to obtain your key and secret.

Then, an administrator should add Flocabulary as an external app in Canvas. You will need the following information:

• Configuration type: Manual Entry
• Launch URL: https://www.flocabulary.com/lti_launch/

• Domain: www.flocabulary.com
• Customer Key: <provided by Flocabulary>
• Customer Secret: <provided by Flocabulary>
• Privacy: set to Public

Teachers then add Flocabulary to their Course as a Module:

• Click + to create a module for Flocabulary
• Select “External Tool” from dropdown
• Choose “Flocabulary” from list of external tools
• URL: https://www.flocabulary.com
• Choose “Load in a new tab”
• Then “Add item”

Teachers can then use the link provided to log into Flocabulary to create their own account: 

• Teachers click the link that was generated in the previous step to log into Flocabulary
• Their Flocabulary account will be created at this point 

Teachers then create classes on Flocabulary to add their students to: 

• Follow these steps in Flocabulary, which generates a class code
• For ease of use by students, we suggest you copy the class code and create a Text Header with the code in Canvas
• Teacher should now publish the Text Header and Flocabulary Module so that students in the Canvas course can see it

Finally, students log into Flocabulary and join the class: 

• After the module is published, student follows the Flocabulary link in the module 
• Their account will be created and they will be logged in
• Student must hover over their name on the top right, click My Classes and Join Class to input a class code

• Student enters the class code provided by the teacher in Step 4 and clicks OK
• To join additional classes in the future, student can hover over their name on the top right, click My Classes and then Join Class at the top to put in another class code

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Deleting an LTI integration

For a school subscription: 

On the Flocabulary homepage, look for the “My Schools” section and click the 3-dot menu, then “Integrations.” Click the red delete button next to the integration that you would like to revoke.

For a district subscription:

Please contact our Integrations Team here for assistance deleting your integration: [e-mail]

Deleting an integration will revoke access to Flocabulary from any Learning Management System (LMS) that was authorized using that key and secret.