LMS: Moodle Integration Setup

1. Sign up for a Visible Body admin account if you do not already have one. Reach out to implementation@visiblebody.com to be provided a setup link.
2. In Visible Body Courseware, go to the LMS Integration page on the left-hand side. Open the Moodle 1.3 tab and copy the URL to paste later.
3. In Moodle, navigate to the Site Administration tab.
4. Under the Site Administration tab, select the Plugins tab.
5. Under Activity Modules, look for the External Tool section, and select Manage tools.
6. Paste the dynamic link that you copied from your Courseware LMS Integration page and click the green Add LTI Advantage button.
7. Visible Body (LTI 1.3) should now appear under Tools on this page. Click the Edit pencil in the top right corner of the new Visible Body (LTI 1.3) tool.
8. Update three of the default settings:
   • By Tool Configuration Usage, choose Show in activity chooser and as a preconfigured tool.
   • For the default launch container, select New window.
   • We recommend adding an icon URL so your institution can identify Visible Body. To add this:
     • Select Show More at the bottom of the Tool Settings section.

     • Add the following to the icon URL and Secure icon URL fields:

       https://www.visiblebody.com/hubfs/branding-and-distribution/visible_body_courseware_icon_transparent_500.png

     • We recommend you keep all the rest of the default settings as-is.
9. At the bottom of the settings page, click Save changes.
10. You should be brought back to the Manage Tools page. Click Activate on the Visible Body (LTI 1.3) tool and it will now be available.

With the tool added to Moodle, finish the setup by confirming the integration. You can also now manage placements on the platform. We recommend adding Visible Body (LTI 1.3) directly into a course, to finish the setup. This could be in a sandbox or test course for now.

1. Navigate to a course where you would like to add Visible Body (LTI 1.3). This could be a sandbox course. You must be logged in as an admin.
2. Under More, select LTI External tools.
3. Find the Visible Body (LTI 1.3) tool and make sure the Show in activity chooser option is enabled.
4. Back in your course contents, turn on Edit mode.
5. Choose a section and select Add an Activity or Resource.
6. Find Visible Body (LTI 1.3) in the list and select it. On the New External tool page, to add overall Visible Body Home, we recommend using the activity name Visible Body Home. The Select Content option is for adding links to activities with grade return, and instructors can do later if necessary.
7. For an activity description, we recommend: "Interactive health and life science teaching made easy! Visible Body Courseware does the assignment and assessment work for you and gives students everything they need to succeed, all in one place! Pick from our huge collection of visual life science assignments and easily edit to suit your needs. Instructors can manage their Courseware assignments and students can get to the complete reference app."
8. Click Save and return to course at the bottom of the page. Visible Body Home should now be available in your course. Click to access the Visible Body 1.3 Course Home and start the account pairing process.
9. You will be asked to sign in with a Visible Body Administrator account.
10. Then confirm that you will set up this integration. Please read through the information and confirm that you agree. Select Connect when done.
11. You will see a notice confirming that you have successfully connected your institution with Visible Body.
    1. If you do not see this prompt, try refreshing the page and clicking the Visible Body tool again.

You will need to link a course to complete this integration. If you don’t have one, you can choose a sample course or create a new course from the course linking page.

1. Select Manage Sync Options from the Course Home, or select the settings icon within the Assignment Library to link a course. Once any course has been linked, this integration is ready to go. Note, your instructors will link their own courses.
   1. You can verify your connection by going into the Courseware LMS Integration page and checking the 1.3 Moodle tab for Connected.

Important: Once the integration is set up, any student added to the Moodle Course will have access to Visible Body. Once they click a Courseware link, they will either be counted as part of the site license arrangement (if the integration is set up as a site license) or start the purchase process.

Visible Body (LTI 1.3) should be available in your course’s left hand navigation already. Your administrator may have named this tool something else. We recommend that your admin add our Course Home to all courses using Visible Body. This makes it easier to manage course content and gives students and instructors one-click access to the full Visible Body Suite app.

However, if they have not installed Courseware Home you can still manage your courses in the Assignment Library. Additionally, you can follow below to add Course Home yourself.

To log in and link your courses:

1. Once you select Visible Body (LTI 1.3), you’ll be prompted to sign in using your Visible Body email and password. You’ll only have to do this once in Moodle.
2. Select the Visible Body course you want to associate with your Moodle course. If you don’t have one set up yet, you can create one at this stage.
3. Click Link Course.
   • There will be a confirmation message asking if you are sure. Click OK.

Your course is now linked. From the Visible Body (LTI 1.3) homepage, selecting Go To Courseware will take you and your students to the associated course in Courseware.

The Visible Body Assignment Library displays all published assignments within your linked course. Click on any assignment to open it and view its activities, you'll see a toggle next to each activity that allows you to mark it as graded or ungraded - this will determine whether or not the assignment populates your LMS gradebook. Select the checkbox next to the assignment to link it to your course.

To make edits or publish new assignments, simply click Manage Assignments, and you will be taken directly to your linked Courseware course.

To update your linked course, click the settings cog in the upper right corner.

To link an assignment, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to your course and turn on Edit mode.
2. Select a section and click Add an Activity or Resource.
3. Select Visible Body (LTI 1.3).
4. In the General category of a new External tool assignment, click Select Content
5. Check the assignments and activities you want to link. If you haven’t signed in and linked your Visible Body course you will be prompted to do so. For further instructions on course linking, see the section below on how to log into Courseware and link your courses.
   • Assignments carry over settings from Visible Body, so they’re ready to go immediately after they are linked! If you link one assignment, you can edit the assignment detail settings further after linking. If you select multiple assignments at once they will be added after you click Save, and if you want to edit the assignment details you will have to go in after saving.
6. Select Link Assignments at the bottom and a deep-link to your assignments will appear in the content! Assignments dates must be manually entered here, but names and points will transfer. Graded assignments will appear in your gradebook.