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Admin Installation Of Equatio For Canvas

The following instructions are for Canvas Administrators to add the Equatio for LMS app to their Canvas environment. For Teacher/Course Designer instructions to add Equatio for LMS to specific Canvas courses, please click here: https://support.texthelp.com/help/teachercourse-designer-installation-of-equatio-for-canvas

Log in to your Admin Dashboard and select “Settings” 

Admin Dashboard

Select “Apps” from the tab list along the top

External Apps List

Click on the +App button which will pull up the dialog to add Equatio for LMS

Add App to External Apps

Click the drop down for “Configuration type” and select “By URL”

Add custom App dropdown

Add custom App by URL

Fill out the fields for the Add App screen as follows:

Name: Equatio

Consumer Key: This will be your Product Code

Shared Secret and Config URL can be found in the purchase email along with your Product Code. If you have not received these or have any questions, please contact us directly at support@texthelp.com

Once these have been entered click Submit. A green confirmation screen that the app was successfully added will appear, and Equatio will appear under your External Apps list

App Added Confirmation Image

External App List showing EquatIO


Click the gear icon next to Equatio under External Apps and select "Edit" - under the Launch URL field, add "https://equatio-lti.texthelp.com" then click Submit

Edit app

You should see a green confirmation window letting you know the app has been configured successfully:

Update Successful

To ensure the app has been added correctly, click on the gear icon to the right of Equatio, and select “Placements”

You should see the following text under App Placements indicating that Equatio was successfully configured and installed:

App successfully configured confirmation screen

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