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How to: Set up Admin Dashboards In Blackboard or Canvas

Hannah
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Before proceeding with these steps, please inform your contact person or Pilot and Partner Manager at FeedbackFruits to ensure a smooth and safe process.

In this comprehensive guide, you will learn about the Admin Dashboard and how to set them up in Blackboard or Canvas (Instructure).

 

Admin Dashboards Introduction

An Admin Dashboard provides you with vital insights about your FeedbackFruits integration with your Learning Management System (LMS), enabling you to understand the usage and interaction of students, teachers, designers, and teaching assistants with the FeedbackFruits tooling. You will gain information about how much time users spend on the platform, the overall status of the system, and the integrations between your LMS and the platform.

 

For each metric, such as 'Courses' or 'Teachers', the dashboard displays the cumulative data at the center. Below that, the second number with the arrow pointing up indicates the usage increase in the past month.

 

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(Fig. 1: Admin Dashboard displaying the usage and time spent with FeedbackFruits tooling.)

 

In addition, the Admin Dashboard is a powerful tool that, in the near future, will offer you the ability to control what features are being used and to configure them as needed.

 

This guide will provide you with step-by-step instructions to manually configure your Admin Dashboard for both the Blackboard and Canvas (Instructure). At the moment, we only support the integration of these two LMSs. However, if you are using Canvas (Instructure) inherited configurations, please contact our customer support team for assistance.

 

Integration configurations

 

Blackboard

To set up the Admin Dashboard in your Blackboard environment, please follow the next steps:

  1. Log in to your Blackboard Administrator account.
  2. Navigate to the "FeedbackFruits LTI Tool Provider" settings.
  3. Add a new placement by providing the following details:
  4. Save the settings.

The FeedbackFruits Dashboard will now appear under the "Tools and Utilities" section in the System Admin panel of Blackboard.

If you experience any issues related to redirect URIs during this configuration, please consult our dedicated article on How to Configure LTI 1.3 for Blackboard. Please do not delete any existing configurations; instead, repeat these steps to update your current settings.

 

Canvas (Instructure) 

To set up the Admin Dashboard in your Canvas (Instructure) environment, please follow the next steps:

  1. Log in to your Canvas Administrator account.
  2. Go to the "Admin" section.
  3. Select "Developer keys" from the sidebar menu.
  4. Click on the ✏️ "Edit this key” button.
  5. Add Tool configuration in the Placements field.
  6. Under the "Account Navigation" section, fill in the section with the following information:
  7. Add https://api.feedbackfruits.com/v1/lti/launch/admin to the Redirect URIs field.
  8. Save the settings.

 

(Fig. 2: Canvas configuration.)

Once you've completed these steps, you can access the dashboard by navigating to “Platform” and “FeedbackFruits Dashboard” from the sidebar menu. 

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