Configuring Gradescope LTI 1.3 in Blackboard for Admins

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Before you can begin configuring your LTI 1.3 integration

• Sign up for a Gradescope account. If you don’t have an account yet, go to the Gradescope website and select Sign Up. Select the Instructor role, fill out the provided form and ensure you use the same email address you use on Blackboard. You will be emailed with a link to set a password so that you are able to access your new account.
• Get integration permissions on your account, if needed. Please email us at help@gradescope.com so that we can enable the integration permissions to your account. Once you have received our confirmation that your Gradescope account has the necessary permissions, you can continue onto the first step.

Configuration Recommendations

We recommend that you complete the configuration process all at once. If you think you may need to complete it in stages, use your Blackboard test environment.

Configuration Steps

1. To register LTI 1.3 in Blackboard, log in as your LMS Administrator.
2. Navigate to the Administrator Panel (Admin in the left menu).
3. In the Integrations menu, select LTI Tool Providers.
   
4. In the top menu, select Register LTI 1.3 Tool.
   
5. Enter the client ID - eba2b217-3800-4dd4-9556-1bfaf697647d and select Submit.
6. The Tool Status section will be automatically populated. Please make sure that this is the LTI tool you want to register.
   
7. Make sure the Tool Status is set to Approved.
8. In the Institution policies section, ensure all of the User Fields to Send options are selected, and set both Allow Grade Service Access and Allow Membership Service Access to Yes.
   
9. Select Submit.
10. A purple banner indicating your successful registration within Blackboard will appear at the top of the LTI Tool Providers page. Gradescope will now appear as an option for your instructors, but they will receive error messages until Step 16 is complete if they attempt to create Gradescope courses or assignments via the LTI links in Blackboard.
11. If your institution will be using the gradescope.ca, gradescope.eu, or gradescope.com.au instance, select the check box beside your newly listed Gradescope Tool/Provider. A dropdown arrow will appear, select Manage Placements. Hover over Gradescope Course and select Edit from the drop down arrow. Scroll to the bottom of the settings page and locate Tool Provider Custom Parameters. Update your preferred geography from US to your geographical location:
    1. eu - Europe
    2. ca - Canada
    3. ap - Australia
12. Select Submit and move onto step 13.
13. Access a course and depending on whether you use Blackboard Ultra or Original:
    1. Ultra - Select Content and then Books and Tools.
    2. Original - Select Content, Tools and then More Tools.
14. Gradescope Course is now an option. Select this new option.
15. You may be prompted to log into Gradescope if you are not already. Please ensure you are logging into the account that has had the integration permissions enabled.
16. Enter a Branded Platform Name, such as “Blackboard” so your instructors will recognize this as your Blackboard integration within Gradescope.

    In the example shown in the picture below, the Branded Platform Name was set as “Blackboard”. If the Branded Platform Name was set as “Blackboard Test Account” the button would read as “Post Grades to Blackboard Test Account”. We recommend not naming this field “Gradescope” as it may cause confusion to instructors.
    

17. Select your school.
18. Test the integration from the instructor and student side. To do so, follow our Blackboard guidance for instructors and Blackboard guidance for students.

Disabling and Re-enabling an LTI 1.3 integration

To disable or re-enable an older LTI 1.3 integration:

1. Go to the LTI 1.3 integrations page on your Gradescope account.
2. Select Edit next to the integration.
3. Either check or uncheck the Disabled check box.
   1. Disabling an integration will unlink all courses and assignments between Gradescope and Blackboard and will remove the Sync Roster and Post Grades options.
   2. Re-enabling the integration will restore all the links.

Sync group sets to sections

Gradescope allows for instructors to sync a group set from Blackboard to the Sections field of the Gradescope roster page. The Sections field on the Gradescope roster is used for grading questions by section and is an added column in all data exports.

To enable the option for all instructors:

1. Log in to the Gradescope account that has LMS permissions enabled.
2. Select LTI 1.3 Integrations from the left navigation bar.
3. Select Edit.
4. Check the Allow group set syncing checkbox. 
5. Select Update.