Moodle Admin Setup

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If you are planning to conduct testing, we welcome you to do so in our testing environment, staging.perusall.com.  Staging is only for testing and should not contain any real course or student data.

Disclaimer: Data on staging may be removed at any time.

Step 1: Install Perusall 1.3

To set up Perusall as a tool in your Moodle instance, navigate to Site Administration > Plug Ins > External Tool > Manage Tools, and then select the option to configure the tool manually.

Fill out the fields as shown below, and then click Save changes.

Tool settings

  • Tool name: Perusall 1.3
  • Tool URL: 
    https://app.perusall.com/ltia/launch
  • Tool description: The Perusall social learning platform
  • LTI version: LTI 1.3
  • Public key type: Keyset URL
  • Public keyset: 
    https://app.perusall.com/ltia/jwks
  • Initiate login URL:
    https://app.perusall.com/ltia/oidc
  • Redirection URI(s): 
    https://app.perusall.com/ltia/launch
  • Tool configuration usage: Show in activity chooser and as a preconfigured tool.

    If the above option is not available, select Show as preconfigured tool when adding an external tool.

  • Default launch container: New window
  • Supports Deep Linking: checked
  • Icon URL and Secure icon URL (under "Show more"): 
    https://perusall.com/favicon.ico

Services

  • IMS LTI Assignment and Grade Services: Use this service for grade sync and column management
  • IMS LTI Names and Role Provisioning: Use this service to retrieve members' information as per privacy settings
  • Tool Settings: Use this service

Privacy

  • Share launcher's name with tool: Always
  • Share launcher's email with tool: Always
  • Accept grades from the tool: Always
  • Force SSL: checked

Step 2: Add your LTI Platform through the Institution Dashboard

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  • To request institutional admin access for your Perusall account (register for an account), for security verification purposes, please contact Perusall support, and point us to an institutional web page that shows your name, email address and title/affiliation.

If you are using staging.perusall.com, please register for a staging account, provide the verification details above, and when you contact Perusall support, please let us know you'd like access to the Staging institution dashboard.

  • Once Perusall has confirmed your request, you will see Institution Dashboard on your Perusall home page (to the left of Get Help), and you can navigate to Settings > LTI 1.3 integrations > Add a new LTI 1.3 integration.  Select your LMS type (Moodle), and insert your:
    • Client ID
    • Deployment ID
    • Authentication request URL
    • Access Token URL
    • Public Keyset URL
  • Click Ok to finalize your placement, and Save Changes.

Testing the integration

Once your credentials have been entered into our platform list, you can test the integration by following Moodle Instructor Setup & Moodle Integration Features.

LTI 1.3 courses offer a new grade sync feature: LMS gradebook column management.  Learn more about grade sync in LTI 1.3 courses.

For a full list of frequently asked questions regarding our LTI 1.3 integrations, see 1.3 FAQ.

Please whitelist messages coming from @perusall.com and @mg.perusall.com to ensure users are able to receive our emails.

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