Schoology - Coursera Integration over LTI Advantage

Coursera courses can be integrated into Schoology using LTI 1.3 technology. Once a Coursera course(s) is enabled in the Schoology environment, users will be able to perform Single Sign-On (SSO) to Coursera course(s) right from the Schoology learning management system (LMS) and learning results will be synced from Coursera to Schoology.

The integration steps are the following:

1. Configure Coursera course as an LTI tool;
2. Publish Coursera courses in your LMS;
3. Access Coursera courses from Schoology;
4. Syncing learning results from Coursera to Blackboard.

The detailed instructions are given below.

Configuring Coursera as an LTI tool

1. Login to Schoology as an Administrator.
2. Navigate to My Developer Apps in App Center, and click +Add App:
   
3. Enter the following information in the External tool configuration section:
   App Name: ex. Coursera 
   Description: optional
   Category: choose the appropriate one
   Available for: Only people in my school
   Logo: optional, size 150x150
   Type of App – Lti 1.3 App
   Uncheck "Launch app in Schoology" 
   Can be installed for: Courses
   Configuration Type: Manual
   Privacy: Send Name and Email/Username of user who launches the tool
   LTI Advantage Extensions:
   check “Deep linking”
   check “Assignment and Grade Services”
   check "Names and Roles Services"
   (These checkboxes can be enabled by contacting Schoology Client Success Managers or Support team for no charge).
   JWKS URL: https://coursera.gg4l.com/ims/lti/.well-known/jwks.json
   Domain/URL: https://api.gg4l.com/datahub/services/ims/lti/v1p3/deep_link
   OIDC Login Init URL: https://coursera.gg4l.com/lti/tools/login_initiations
   Redirect URLs: https://coursera.gg4l.com/auth/lti13/SSO,https://api.gg4l.com/datahub/services/ims/lti/v1p3/deep_link
   Check “This application meets the Schoology Terms of Use”
   Click Submit to save the application.
4. Find the created Coursera Application in My Developer Apps, click API info and copy Client ID:
   
5. Find the created Coursera Application in the list of your Developer Apps, and click Install LTI 1.3 App:
6. Click “I Agree” and “Continue” in the “Install LTI 1.3 App” modal windows, then  “Add to organization”:
7. Find the application in the list of Organisation Apps and click “Configure”:
   
8. Copy the Deployment ID, share the copied value and previously copied Client ID with the GG4L Customer Support (support@gg4l.com) via email, and click “Save Settings”:
   
9. Go back to the “Organization Apps” view, click “Instal/Remove”, check the checkbox “All Courses” and hit “Submit”:
10. A pop-up window will inform you about successful App activation:
    

11. Before moving on to the next step, Publishing Coursera courses in your LMS, please send the following values to GG4L Customer Support (support@gg4l.com) via email:

Publishing Coursera courses in your LMS

This section describes publishing Coursera Course(s) into a Schoology course.

1. On the Course view page, click “Add Materials” in the Materials tab, and choose the Coursera application that was created in the previous steps.
2. A new window with the content will open. On the top, there is the name of the Learning Program. Please, choose the course you need to publish and click “Submit”:
   
3. The link is now published in the Materials section:
   

Accessing Coursera Course from Schoology

1. To access the Coursera course, the LMS learner should navigate to the corresponding Schoology course and click the link to the Coursera course in the Materials view:

   2.  Once the user is redirected to Coursera for the first time, the user is prompted to complete enrollment:

There are 2 scenarios at this stage:

a. The user already has a Coursera account: the system will ask the user to provide an email address and a password for the existing account:

b. The user is new to Coursera: the system will prompt the user to create a password:

  3.   Once the user establishes an association with the Coursera program, they will be navigated to a respective Coursera course page and need to click "Enroll":

Syncing learning results from Coursera to Blackboard

To examine the learning results from Coursera for learners, who are enrolled in the course, LMS Instructor navigates to the Gradebook of the course: 


The Coursera redirect links are published as assignments, and as a result - a new column for the course grade is automatically created in the grade book as soon as there is the first grade. The grades appear in the grade book within 24-72 hours after the student completes the course and receives the final grade.