Canvas Integration Settings in openSIS

Canvas Integration Settings in openSIS

Canvas Integration for openSIS

In order to integrate Canvas LMS with openSIS, you only require two things:

The live URL where your Canvas LMS is hosted  and the Access Token to call the necessary APIs for communicating with Canvas LMS from within openSIS.

To complete the integration, follow these steps:
  1. Firstly, after logging into Canvas as an Account Admin, click on the “Account” tab from the left menu.
  2. Then, click on the “Settings” menu from the left pane.
  3. You’ll find a section called “Approved Integrations” on that page. And, before the end of that section, you’ll find a button that says “+ New Access Token”. Click on it to create the new token. Enter a meaningful purpose or you can just write “openSIS–Canvas Integration”, do not enter any “Expiration date” or “Expiration time” during creating the access token. Finally, click on the “Generate Token” button to finish creating the token.
  4. Once the token has been created, copy it and store it in a safe place as we’re going to need it in the future to use in openSIS.
  5. The token and the Canvas server URL will be required to be entered inside the openSIS application. Only the Super Administrator has access to do so.

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