How to integrate Soundtrap into multiple Canvas Courses within the same Soundtrap Edu account

This guide is for teachers who will be integrating Soundtrap into multiple Canvas courses via course-level integration. If your school has enabled Soundtrap district-wide, you do not need to install at the course level.

In order to integrate Soundtrap into Canvas courses, a set of 3 LTI credentials must be obtained from the EDU owner. If you do not have the LTI credentials or are unsure, please reach out to the owner of the EDU to verify. If you already have the LTI credentials provided by the EDU owner, follow the setup steps below to integrate the keys into your Canvas courses.

 

Table of contents:

Getting started

Setup

How to access Soundtrap from your Canvas course

Best practices and important notes

 

Getting started

Before you begin, make sure that you’ve obtained the current Soundtrap LTI credentials from the EDU owner or from your colleague. These credentials are specific to the EDU and are a requirement in order to successfully connect Soundtrap with your Canvas courses.

• Consumer key
• Shared secret
• Configuration URL

 

They look like this:

 

Setup:

Once you have the LTI keys required, follow the steps below to integrate the keys into your Canvas courses:

 

1. Log into your Canvas account. Click on Courses and choose the course you want to integrate with Soundtrap.

 

2. Go to Settings and click View App Configurations.

3. Click +App.

4. In the Configuration Type selection, choose by URL.

5. Copy the LTI keys (consumer key, shared secret, configuration URL) into the corresponding boxes.

6. Submit the configurations.

Congratulations! You’ve successfully integrated Soundtrap with your Canvas course. Refresh the page and Soundtrap is now located on the left hand side of your Canvas course menu.

 

How to access Soundtrap from your Canvas course

1. Log into your Canvas account.
2. Click on Courses.
3. Select the Canvas course that’s integrated with Soundtrap.
4. Locate the Soundtrap app in the left hand menu.
5. Click on the Soundtrap app. A new user account will be created upon first click and will log the user into Soundtrap.

 

Best practices and important notes: 

• All teachers and students should log into their Canvas accounts and their Canvas course in order to access Soundtrap.
  
  Note: Users should not go directly to our website. If users go directly to our website, it could cause a duplicate account to be created.
  
  
• Teachers should instruct their students to click on the Soundtrap app from the Canvas course's left side menu first. This will ensure that a brand new user account for the student is created and logged in.
  
  
• The Canvas integration does not automatically create Soundtrap groups for each course. Teachers need to create their own Soundtrap groups.
  • Learn how to create a Soundtrap group here.
  • Learn how to activate the Soundtrap group code here.
    
    
• Once students have created their Soundtrap-Canvas connected accounts, students can join their teacher's Soundtrap group via the student instructions here.