How do I connect a course with InQuizitive and other W. W. Norton online resources?
To connect a D2L course with W. W. Norton resources you will need to:
- Decide whether to create a product homepage link or activity link in your course.
- Get the product homepage URL or activity link URL from W. W. Norton.
- Create an external learning tool link within your D2L course.
- Place the external learning tool link in your D2L course.
Choosing a Product Homepage Link or an Activity Link
Product Homepage Link
A single product homepage link in your D2L course takes your students (and you) to a page in the W. W. Norton system that lists all your course activities.
The "homepage" here refers to the overall, "hub" page for your course in W. W. Norton's system. It does not indicate anything regarding your D2L course homepage. You may put a W. W. Norton product homepage link on your D2L course homepage or nearly anywhere else in your course.
Activity Link
Separate activity links in your D2L course lead to each, individual W. W. Norton activity.
You may put W. W. Norton activity links on your D2L course homepage or nearly anywhere else in your course.
Getting the Product Homepage URL or Activity Link URL for Your Course
Check your email messages from your W. W. Norton representative. Your rep may have already provided the URLs. If you rep has not, email her or him requesting your integration URLs.
Product Homepage URL
A product homepage URL will look something like:
https://ncia.wwnorton.com/productname-BOOKCODE
But in your product homepage URL:
- productname will be replaced by the name of a W. W. Norton tool.
- BOOKCODE will be replaced by the code of your W. W. Norton book.
Activity Link URLs
Each activity link URL will look something like:
https://ncia.wwnorton.com/NNNN
But in your activity link URLs:
- NNNN will be replaced by the W. W. Norton activity
Key and Secret
Your W. W. Norton representative may additionally provide a key/secret pair, two strings of words or random looking letters and numbers. You do not need the key/secret pair. Both are stored in D2L already.
Creating the External Learning Tool Link
These instructions assume you have already logged in to D2L and entered the course in which you wish to work.
- Click on ⚙ in the navigation bar.
- Click the External Learning Tools link.
- Ensure you are on the tab Manage External Learning Tool Links, not LTI Advantage.
- Click the New Link button.
- On the New Link page:
- In the Title field, type a meaningful name for the link. For a product homepage link, W. W. Norton may be sufficient. For activity links you should provide more specifics.
- In the URL field, paste or accurately type the product homepage URL or activity link URL.
- (optional) Type explanatory text into the Description box.
- Make sure Allow users to view this link is checked.
- Make sure Sign messages with key/secret with is checked.
- Make sure Tool consumer key/secret is selected.
- Make sure Use tool provider security settings is selected.
- Make sure Make link available to: Current Org Unit: <your course name> is checked.
- Click the Save and Close button.
Placing the External Learning Tool Link in the Course
You can place where you like in your D2L course the W. W. Norton link you just created.
Using the HTML Editor
These instructions assume you have already logged in to D2L and entered the course in which you wish to work.
- Click the Insert QuickLink () button.
- Click External Learning Tools.
- Click the name of the link you created.
Or, to adjust the text or the target (whole window, same frame, new window) of the link you're creating, click the Options () button for the link you created.
As a Content Item
These instructions assume you are in content.
- Click the Existing Activities button.
- From the menu that opens, select External Learning Tools.
- Click the name of the link you created.
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