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Adding Lesson Hooks in D2L/Brightspace (Classic Experience LTI 1.1)

Updated on Aug 08, 2023

This set of instructions will walk you through adding lesson hooks in your D2L/Brightspace course. This allows students to access Cloud and enables their grades to transfer back into D2L. If you need help locating the LTI credentials for your course, please follow the steps in How do I find the LTI hooks for my course?

If your D2L/Brightspace interface does not match the images below, you may be using a different version of their LTI tool. Check out the instructions for the New Experience here.

Make sure you have completed the steps in Adding Course Hooks in D2L/Brightspace before completing the steps below.

1. Navigate to the content section of your course and select "Add Existing Activities"

2. Select "External Learning Tools" from the drop-down

3. Select "Manage External Learning Tools." Do not select "Create New LTI Link"

4. Under the "Manage External Learning Tool Links" tab, select "New Link"

5. Add a title (ex: Getting Started). Add the Tool Provider URL. Check "Allow users to view this link"

6. Select the "Link key/secret" radio button

Find and copy the "Tool Provider Key" and "Tool Provider Secret" in SI Cloud

Paste the Tool Provider Key and Tool Provider Secret into the "Key" and "Secret" fields, respectively

7. Select "Add customer parameters." In the "Save Changes" pop-up, select "Save"

Please read Which hook is best? to help you decide which lesson hook you should use in your course.

8. Insert the Lesson hook information as shown below

Note: the hooks are displayed in SI as "lesson_hook=hol-mlesson-********." When performing this step, "lesson_hook" is placed in the name section. Everything after the "=" in the hook is placed in the value section (hol-mlesson-********).

9. Select all check boxes for the security settings, then select "Save" and "Close"

10. Navigate back to the content section of your course. Select "Add Existing Activities," then select "External Learning Tool" from the drop down. Select the link you created.

11. Select the drop-down next to the new "External Learning Tool" link. Select "Edit Properties In-place."

12. In the expanded properties, select the checkbox to "Open as External Resource"

13. Refresh the page, then select the "External Learning Tool" link

Follow the same procedure in the previous article, Adding Course Hooks in D2L/Brightspace, to open as an external resource. Do not select the "eye" icon for the lessons.

You will be redirected you to your course dashboard

Students will be redirected to the first page of the lesson that has been linked.

14. To add a lesson to the gradebook, select the lesson in Brightspace/D2L. In the assessment section, select "Add a grade item..."

15. Fill in "New Grade Item" details as desired

16. Repeat steps 1–15 above for each additional lesson in your Science Interactive course

17. Test your course by selecting your lesson links from the lesson list in your LMS

Once you have added all of the lesson hooks to your course, selecting a lesson link in your LMS will take you to your course dashboard, not to the individual lesson like it does for students. Don't worry, though, this means that everything was set up correctly!

If you run into any of these common error codes, see instructions here:

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