UvA.TeamsLTI

LTI 1.3 app to create Teams for courses in an LMS. Brightspace and Canvas are currently supported.

Overview:

• The app is launched in the LMS via LTI 1.3.
• The backend handles the LTI launch and redirects to the frontend with a JWT (using the LTI-consumer .NET library).
• The Vue frontend allows the user to choose settings for team creation.
• The backend then uses the LMS API to retrieve the necessary data and the Graph API to create the team and sync the users to Teams.
• Created teams and synced users are stored in a MongoDB database.
• A nighty sync process updates the users in the team.

Configuration

The tool can be configured to support one or more LMS instances using the Environments section in the app config and one or more Teams tenants using the Teams section, see the below example. Teams are generated with a mailnickname that contains the course ID and an optional NicknamePrefix specified in the config.

{
  "Environments": {
    "Canvas": {
      "Authority": "https://canvas.test.instructure.com",
      "ClientId": "client id",
      "Endpoint": "https://canvas.test.instructure.com/api/lti/authorize_redirect",
      "JwksUrl": "https://canvas.test.instructure.com/api/lti/security/jwks",

      "OwnerId": "owner user ID from Azure AD",
      "Teams": "PRD",
      "NicknamePrefix": "canvas-dev",

      "Host": "https://uvadlo-dev.test.instructure.com",
      "Token": "canvas api token"
    },
    "Brightspace": {
      "Authority": "https://testhva.brightspace.com",
      "ClientId": "client id",
      "Endpoint": "https://testhva.brightspace.com/d2l/lti/authenticate",
      "JwksUrl": "https://testhva.brightspace.com/d2l/.well-known/jwks",

      "OwnerId": "owner user ID from Azure AD",
      "Teams": "PRD"
      "NicknamePrefix": "bsp-tst",

      "Host": "https://testhva.brightspace.com",
      "AppId": "app id",
      "AppKey": "app key",
      "UserId": "user id",
      "UserKey": "user key"
    },
  },
  "Jwt": {
    "Key": "some sufficiently log key to use for JWT signing"
  },
  "ConnectionString": "mongodb://examaple.com",
  "Teams": {
    "PRD": {
      "TenantId": "tenant id",
      "AppId": "service principal app id",
      "AppSecret": "corresponding secret"
    }
  }
}