LTI Integration — Schoolbox Setup Guide

This guide is for your school’s Schoolbox administrator. It adds Thinking Mode to Schoolbox as an LTI 1.3 tool. Teachers and students can then open Thinking Mode from Schoolbox, and teachers can post each student’s grade and a comment back to the matching Schoolbox assessment. Files such as transcripts can’t be sent to Schoolbox: only Canvas accepts them.

You need access to Administration in Schoolbox. Schoolbox’s own instructions are at Configuring LTI Tools in Schoolbox, under Add an LTI 1.3 Provider.

We are happy to assist with this process. If you have any questions or would like guidance through the installation, please email support@thinkingmode.com

Part 1: Add Thinking Mode in Schoolbox

Step 1. Open Administration, then LMS, then LTI Tools.

Step 2. At the top of the page, check that Enable 3rd Party Assessments is On. If you turn it on, click Save. Without it, teachers can’t add Thinking Mode to an assessment.

Step 3. Click the + beside LTI Tools to add a tool. Under LTI Tool Identity, enter:

• Name: Thinking Mode

• Version: 1.3

Step 4. Under Tool Configuration, copy in the following. These are the current addresses for your Thinking Mode site:

• OpenID Connect Initiation URL: https://thinkingmode.com/wp-json/socraticxr-lti/v1/login

• Launch URL: https://thinkingmode.com/wp-json/socraticxr-lti/v1/generic-launch

• Deep Linking URL: https://thinkingmode.com/wp-json/socraticxr-lti/v1/task-picker

• JSON Web Key Set URL: https://thinkingmode.com/wp-json/socraticxr-lti/v1/jwks

• Public Key: leave blank

• Additional Redirect URL(s): click Add Redirect URL and enter https://thinkingmode.com/wp-json/socraticxr-lti/v1/redirect

Step 5. Under Availability, tick 3rd Party Assessments only and leave Homepage Components unticked. Set Target to New tab/window, so Thinking Mode opens in its own tab.

Step 6. Click Create Tool.

Part 2: Send us your Schoolbox connection details

Step 7. Click Thinking Mode in the list of LTI tools to open it. Its Schoolbox Instance Details section now includes a Client/Deployment ID. We need these values to register your school in Thinking Mode. Please copy each one and email them to support@thinkingmode.com:

• Issuer

• OpenID Connect Authentication URL

• OAuth Access Token URL

• JSON Web Key Set URL

• Client/Deployment ID

Each of those fields has a Copy button in Schoolbox, so the quickest approach is to copy and paste them straight into your email to us.

Part 3: We confirm, then you test

Step 8. We register your school and reply within 2 business days to confirm it is ready to test.

Step 9. As a teacher, add Thinking Mode to an assessment using the steps below. The first time a teacher opens Thinking Mode from Schoolbox without a Thinking Mode account, we email them a link to confirm their account. They click the link, then add Thinking Mode to the assessment again. After that, it opens straight to the task picker.

If you hit an error at any point, copy it and send it to us and we will help.

Adding Thinking Mode to a Schoolbox assessment

Teachers do this in each class:

1. In the class’s course outline, open the menu beside a unit and choose 3rd Party Assessment.

2. Enter a Title and choose a Work Type. Under Learning Tool, choose Thinking Mode. The Thinking Mode task picker opens.

3. Pick a task and click Use this task.

4. Click Create. Students open the task from the assessment with Attempt Activity.

To send results back, open the student’s results in Thinking Mode, score the rubric or write a comment, and click Post to Schoolbox. The score and comment show in Schoolbox straight away, even if you haven’t released results in Thinking Mode. Who can see them there is set by Feedback Visibility on the Schoolbox assessment.