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an instructor account at CourseKata. You will need this even as an Admin. If you do not have onean account, you can request one (free) at our website. Make sure to mention that you are an LMS admin, and use your institutional email address.
permissions to install external LTI tools into your LMS.
a class in your LMS to test the installation in.
If you are using domain blocking, you may also want to add domains used in our content to your allow list.
\uD83D\uDCD8 How CourseKata Works
CourseKata content is built and hosted on our servers and delivered via <iframe> over the LTI protocol to your Learning Management System (LMS). To make this work, you will need to install both the CourseKata application as an external LTI tool, as well as the content as modules in your course. This document will start by explaining how to install the tool—and then how to get the course content linked up with your class.
🛠️ Registering and Deploying the Tool
STEP 1: Registering your Platform on CourseKata
Start at our platform registration page.
If you see a platform listed for your institution, congrats! It looks like someone has already installed this on your platform and assigned you as the owner. You can check that the settings there are correct, and move on to 📘 Importing Content below. If not, click Register Platform at the top right.
Enter the information for your platform there, then click Register Platform to continue.
Choose the IMS LTI 1.3 pathway and then leave the page open at this step.
STEP 2: Registering CourseKata on your Platform
Congrats! The CourseKata tool should be installed in your LMS and you should see the ready icon. If this is not the case, please don’t hesitate to reach out to info@coursekata tech@coursekata.org for help. Next, you will need to Deploy the tool and share it with the relevant Org Units.
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🎉 Congrats! The CourseKata tool should be ready for deployment and you should see the ready icon. If this is not the case, please don’t hesitate to reach out at tech@coursekata.org for help.
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STEP 3: Deploying your tool so that instructors can use it
Navigate to the Adminpanel, then Settings, then Apps, and click + App
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Fill out the form with your institution’s information, and make sure to mark that This is a test class (real instructors will choose real class) but this helps us categorize cleanups. If you are unsure of which book, you can just choose our flagship College / Statistics and Data Science (ABC), though it doesn’t really matter which you choose. When you are done, click Create Class.
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Copy and paste the URL to your Canvas course into the textbox click to the next step where you will download your cartridge for the course.
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The cartridge is specifically built for the book and version you have chosen. Once you install that cartridge into your LMS class and link it to your CourseKata class, you should not change the cartridge—it may appear that everything is working, but it is likely to fail at some point. |
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In the dropdown menu choose Common Cartridge 1.x Package, add the cartridge that you just downloaded in step 4, then choose the radio button for All Content
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Select specific content
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Click Import and wait for the process to finish. You will probably get a notification that looks like this, with many warnings you can ignore theseIn the Current Jobs section you will see a new entry with the tag Waiting for Selection. Click Select Content.
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In the menu that pops up, only choose Modules, then click Select Content.
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When the process finishes, you will see that the entry has the Completed tag (you can ignore the issues).
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🎉 The content should now be properly imported! Head to your Modules section and choose one of the CourseKata modules like My Progress + Jupyter. When you access the module, you should see a sign in page where you can sign in and choose which class on CourseKata matches the one that you are in.
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