Students can access Edfinity assignments from D2L Brightspace without creating an Edfinity account. When a student completes an assignment, the grade is passed back to D2L.

Getting started

These steps need to be completed prior to student enrollment in the relevant Edfinity course.

Indicate your course will be accessed from D2L

To indicate students will access the course via LMS, go to your course and open the LMS integration section of the Settings tab. Select From your LMS and then select D2L.

Ask your administrator to set up LTI authentication

If you do not see Edfinity as an External Learning Tools tool provider, please ask your institution's D2L administrator to contact us at support@edfinity.com. If you are a D2L administrator, detailed instructions for setting up LTI authentication can be found in the administration guide.

Linking to Edfinity assignments

From D2L, you can link to each Edfinity assignment individually and a grade will be passed back for each assignment. This is the most common configuration. You can also, link to an entire Edfinity course as a single D2L assignment with an averaged grade.

Linking to individual assignments (multiple grades)

From Edfinity, go to your assignment, and open the LMS integration section on the Settings tab. Copy the External tool URL.
From D2L, open your course and select a module.
Select Add Existing Activities, and then select External Learning Tools.
If the desired Edfinity link already exists, select it and the link will be added.
If you need to create a new link, select Manage External Learning Tools at the bottom of the dialog, and then select Manage External Tool Links.
Select New Link.
Enter the following values:
1. URL = <Edfinity external tool URL above>
2. Signature = Tool consumer key/secret
Save and then select the link to add it.

Linking to an entire course (single grade)

Go to your Edfinity course and select the Settings tab. Open the LMS Integration section and select Summarized as a single course grade as your grade pass back option. Copy the External tool URL.
From D2L, open your course and select a module.
Select Add Existing Activities, and then select External Learning Tools.
If the desired Edfinity link already exists, select it and the link will be added.
If you need to create a new link, select Manage External Learning Tools at the bottom of the dialog, and then select Manage External Tool Links.
Select New Link.
Enter the following values:
1. URL = <Edfinity external tool URL above>
2. Signature = Tool consumer key/secret
Save and then select the link to add it.