Adding BibliU to Your Course in Canvas

Adding BibliU to a Course Module

To add the BibliU LTI link to a module, after completing the above steps, follow the steps below:

1. Select the plus sign in the upper right corner of the module: 

2. The following box will appear (the options will be different depending on what you have set up):

3. Select the External Tool that you would like to use for your course.
4. This will prefill the URL and Page Name fields, click “Add Item”. 

This will allow the students to click on the BibliU link to open their library.

Linking to a specific title in a course module

To link to a specific title in a course module:

1. Navigate to the course that you are looking to update. 
2. On the second column left hand side navigation bar, select “Settings” 
3. Select the “Apps” tab on the top navigation bar
4. Click on the +App button in the upper right hand corner
5. A box like the one below will appear: 

6. Complete the following fields: 
   1. Configuration Type- Manual Entry
   2. Name- This will be the name of the link that you’d like to show for the students when they see the link in the module. Often times faculty members will enter the name of the textbook here.
   3. Consumer Key- Enter the key provided to you by the BibliU team
   4. Shared Secret- Enter the secret provided to you by the BibliU team
   5. Launch URL- https://bibliu.com/users/lti
   6. Domain- https://bibliu.com
   7. Privacy- Public
   8. Custom Fields- custom_launch_url=/view/books/<enterbookisbnhere>
7. Click “Submit”
8. Go to your modules, and click on the “+” sign in the row of the module you’d like to add your book to. 
9. A box like this will appear: 
10. On the drop down, select “External Tool”, then click on the name of the app that you’ve added to your settings. In this case it is “Accounting 101 Textbook”. This will prepopulate the URL and Page name. Click “Add Item”. 
11. The link will appear in your module, and it will direct the students right to the book when they click on it. 

Linking to a specific page in a course module

To link to a specific page in a course module:

12. Navigate to the course that you are looking to update. 
13. On the second column left hand side navigation bar, select “Settings” 
14. Select the “Apps” tab on the top navigation bar
15. Click on the +App button in the upper right hand corner
16. A box like the one below will appear: 

17. Complete the following fields: 
    1. Configuration Type- Manual Entry
    2. Name- This will be the name of the link that you’d like to show for the students when they see the link in the module. Oftentimes faculty members will enter the name of the textbook here.
    3. Consumer Key- Enter the key provided to you by the BibliU team
    4. Shared Secret- Enter the secret provided to you by the BibliU team
    5. Launch URL- https://bibliu.com/users/lti
    6. Privacy- Public
    7. Custom Fields- This part is a bit more in depth. First, you will type “custom_launch_url=/view/books/<enterbookisbnhere>” Then navigate to the title and page that you are wanting to open for the students. It will look like this: 
    8.  

9. When you find the page you’d like to navigate to, look at the URL for this specific page. You will see that in the URL, the eISBN is listed. Copy the URL from where the eISBN ends to the end of the URL, and paste that text after the eISBN you’ve put into the Custom Fields field so far. For example, if you want to link to the page of the title referenced above, your Custom Field would look like this: 

custom_launch_url=/view/books/9780077139650/pdf2htmlex/index.html#page_121

10. Click “Submit”

18. Go to your modules, and click on the “+” sign in the row of the module you’d like to add your book to. 
19. A box like this will appear: 
20. On the drop down, select “External Tool”, then click on the name of the app that you’ve added to your settings. In this case it is “Accounting 101 Textbook- Chapter 7”. This will prepopulate the URL and Page name. Click “Add Item”. 
21. The link will appear in your module, and it will direct the students right to the book when they click on it.