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Add Links in Canvas LTI Advantage to SAM Activities

After setting up your SAM course, create links from Canvas™ to activities or other content in SAM. Linked graded activities are included in the Canvas gradebook unless you choose to exclude them.

Prerequisites
Create a New Canvas-Integrated SAM Course

The following procedure is for LTI Advantage integrations. If the Cengage link in your course navigation works, see LTI 1.0.

  1. Open your Canvas course.
  2. Click Modules in the course navigation.
  3. Locate or create the module that will contain your activity links.

    The Cengage tool might not be available in both of the following locations depending on your Canvas admin's settings.

    To add activity links in a new module:

    1. Click more options next to +Module.
      more options next to +Module in Canvas
    2. Click the Cengage tool.

    To add activity links to an existing module:

    1. Locate the module and click add content.
    2. Set the dropdown to External Tool.
    3. Click the Cengage LTI Advantage tool.

      Look for magnifying glass to confirm that the tool is LTI Advantage.

Alternatively, click Assignments in the course navigation and click more options to add activity links to the Assignments page.

more options next to +Assignment in Canvas
  1. Click Select Content.
  2. Select activities to include in your course.
    A selected activity is labeled "This activity is imported in your LMS" and a warning message says "You are about to re-import already existing assignments."

    Activities that have already been added are marked This activity is imported in your LMS. To avoid duplicate activity links and gradebook columns, do not import the same activity twice.

    By default, when you include a graded activity it is added to the Canvas gradebook.

    Due dates set in your SAM course are synced to Canvas. Any changes you make to due dates in your SAM course overwrite dates set in your Canvas course. For consistency, make sure your SAM and Canvas courses are set to the same time zone.

  3. Click Continue.
  4. If needed, click Add Item.

The selected activity links are added to the module.

If needed, you can reorganize the links in Canvas.