LMS Launch Point
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Pair your LMS course with your SIMnet Instructor or Administrator account for LTIA Integrations.
Registering for SIMnet directly from your school's Learning Management System (LMS) is simple one time process.
Note: These steps only need to be completed once to setup the connection between your LMS account and your new SIMnet account. Further logins from your LMS will go directly to SIMnet.
Start by launching SIMnet as an Instructor from your LMS. For details visit Instructor LMS Launch Point
If the URL is not automatically filled, type the name of your school or URL in the text box. Select your school from the list and click Continue to move to the next step of the pairing process.
Note: After the first course is paired from your LMS the SIMnet URL will automatically populate during the next course pairing.
You will be prompted to either create a new SIMnet account or sign in with an existing SIMnet account. Depending on your school's configuration, some fields may need to be input to complete the registration.
To create a new SIMnet account, please review the McGraw Hill Terms of Service, Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy and Click Create Account to complete the pairing process.
If you already have a SIMnet Instructor or Administrator account you would like to pair with, click the link to Sign In instead.
Note: SIMnet will email your username and a generated password in case you need to Sign In directly to the SIMnet URL.
Note: If SIMnet already has your email address on file at the selected SIMnet URL, you will be directed to Sign In instead of creating a new account.
Note: The create new account option will create a SIMnet Full Instructor role type.
Warning: If your email address is not available for use as a SIMnet username you will be prompted to select a different username to create your new SIMnet account.
To pair your LMS course with an existing SIMnet course, select the Pair existing SIMnet course button. To create new SIMnet course to pair with select the Create a new SIMnet course button.
To pair with an existing SIMnet Course type to search in the courses menu. Select the desired course and click the Pair Course button to complete the course pairing process.
Note: SIMnet Administrators have the option to toggle the courses list between 'My Courses' and 'All Courses.'
Note: SIMnet Instructors only have the ability to pair with SIMnet courses they are already assign to teach in SIMnet.
To create a new SIMnet course that matches your LMS course, edit the Course, Section titles, and Campus selection as desired and click the Create Course button to complete the course pairing process.
To pair your LMS course with an existing SIMnet course, click the click here link instead of filling out the course details.
Note: Select a course template to copy from to ensure a consistent course build between SIMnet sections.
The SIMnet LTIA Instructor and Administrator launch point differs based on your LMS. Follow these instructions to find the LTIA launch point.
Note: These steps only need to be completed once to setup the connection between your LMS and your SIMnet account. Further logins from your LMS will automatically sign you into SIMnet.
Each LMS launches LTIA compatible tools like SIMnet from different locations. Find the tab with your LMS below to continue.
1. From your Canvas course, navigate to the Modules section in the left navigation menu and add a new module by clicking the + Module button. You may skip this step if you already have a module where you would like to link SIMnet assignments to.
2. Name your new module whatever you prefer and click the Add Module button.
3. From the newly created module Click the kebab menu to view module navigation options.
4. Select McGraw Hill SIMnet LTIA from the menu options.
5. On your first login only, you will be asked to authorize access from McGraw Hill LTIA to your account. Click Authorize to proceed with pairing.
1. From your Blackboard Ultra course, select View course & institution tools from the Details & Actions, Books & Tools left navigation menu.
2. From the Books & Course Tools pane, scroll to the bottom and select Browse all course tools link.
3. From the Institution Tools group, select the McGraw Hill SIMnet tool.
Warning: Moodle v3.11+ is required for LTIA support. Earlier versions of Moodle do not support the LTI v1.3 standard required for LTI Advantage.
Warning: You can also enter the SIMnet launch point Edit Settings menu of an existing SIMnet assignment link, but do not integrate new assignments from this entry point.
From your Moodle SIMnet course click the Turn editing on button.
Click the Add an activity or resource link
Click the McGraw Hill SIMnet button
Click the Select content button
Manually Sync Grades for LTIA is used to keep the distributed systems in sync.
Note: To access the Resync Grades section, start with clicking the Instructor LMS Launch Point, and selecting the #resync-grades option in the Instructor Integration Home.
The manual grade sync tool should be used when the points in the LMS gradebook don't match the corresponding points in teh SIMnet gradeboook, or if SIMnet has flagged some grades as unsuccessfully synced. If you see the icon in the Status column, hover over or focus on it to see a breakdown of the grade sync issues. Assignments with a mark are successfully synced with your LMS.
You may select individual assignments for grade sync or use the Select by dropdown to select all: Failed, Queued, or Out of Sync assignments.
Enabling the Force Sync option will increment all grade submission times by 1 second to ensure all grades are re-sent to the LMS.
Note: In order to sync assignments that are successful or queued you must select the Force Sync option.
Congratulations, your course is now paired from your LMS to SIMnet! To continue to the Course Integration Home, click the Go to SIMnet button.
McGraw Hill's LTIA integration provides single-sign-on (SSO), deep assignment links, and grade sync capabilities using the LTI Advantage, LTIA, or LTI v1.3 integration standard.
Certified: The McGraw Hill SIMnet IMS Global Certification can be viewed here.
Canvas
Commercial Release
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Blackboard Ultra
Commercial Release
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blackboard Original
Commercial Release
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
D2L - Brightspace
Commercial Release
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
TBD
***Moodle v3.11+
Commercial Release
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Proprietary/Other
TBD
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
TBD
TBD
No
** Requires additional LMS tool installation
*** Moodle doesn't support a REST API. The following features are not supported: start date, due date, end date, and changing assignment title, relinking zero point assignments.
Course level launch point for instructors and students.
The SIMnet LTIA Instructor and Student course level launch point can be placed in your LMS navigation menu and differs based on your LMS.
When students click the course level launch it will link them into the SIMnet Course Home where they will be able to view the assigment tiles, list, or calendar.
Note: When Learners open SIMnet for the first time will be sent through the pairing process before being directed to the Course Home.
The Course Integration Home is a course level tool for Administrators and Instructors that includes quick links and integration tools.
Note: To access the SIMnet Course Integration Home select the in your LMS.
The SIMnet Course Integration Home provides you with Quick Links, Integration and Administrative Tools.
The LTIA integration consists of multiple distributed systems and the Resync Grades option allows you to resync grades through the upstream systems from SIMnet.
Clicking the Start Unlinking button will unlink the current SIMnet course from your LMS course. You can then resync to a different course or re-link to the same course in the future. Click Confirm to unpair your LMS course from SIMnet.
Once you have paired your LMS account with a SIMnet account, you will sign in to that account automatically in the future. If you would like to unpair that use account, click the Start Unlinking button in the Unlink Automatic Sign-in section and select Confirm to unlink your account.
Relink Assignments allows you to manually initiate a process that will fix various assignment link issues can can occur. The relink process will: reconcile assignments through the various platforms, relink assignments in the LMS course, update assignment dates, titles, and points, redeploy LMS assignments that may have been deleted.
Automatically copy, pair, and relink courses based on a SIMnet template course.
Auto, copy, pair, and relink (ACP) is a learning management system (LMS) integration technology that supports the automatic provisioning and deployment of classes in SIMnet based on a pre-configured template course. ACP is available for all Canvas, Desire2Learn, and Blackboard assignment level integrations through McGraw Hill Campus.
Success: For ACP to relink your assignments the LMS course must be copied or duplicated from another LMS course containig SIMnet assignment links.
The first step in preparing to use the ACP feature is to create your LMS course template. The template course should not contain any students and may contain non-SIMnet assignments. The template course title will be used when automatically creating course copies in SIMnet.
Hint: You may either create a new SIMnet course and add assignments to after the pairing process or pair with an existing SIMnet course during the pairing process.
Hint: The pairing process will automatically close student self-registration, keep this setting as is to prevent accidental enrollment into the course template.
From the open SIMnet to begin the process. Once you complete the pairing process your LMS course will be linked to your SIMnet course.
From the open SIMnet to and select Integrate to complete .
Hint: After integrating your SIMnet assignments you may now organize the assignments in the LMS course.
To activate the ACP process when copying the LMS template course the paired SIMnet course will need to be designated as an LTIA ACP Template Course. This setting can be modified in two areas in the SIMnet Course Manager.
Hint: When copying courses in SIMnet with ACP the course titles will be set automatically:
Course Title will be set to match the related LTIA ACP Template course.
Course Section Title will be set to LMS Course Name witht the LMS Course Label in parentheses.
Hint: If the above course and section title combination isn't unique in SIMnet, you will be sent to the manual course pairing flow where you can manually enter the course and section title. You will have to select the template course to copy from.
Warning: If you don't enable the LTIA ACP Template option on the SIMnet course you will be prompted to pair with an existing course or create a new course using the Manual Copy Pair (MCP) workflow. However, assignment links will be relinked if possible.
LTI Advantage LMS integration enhancements and changes guide
The new LTI Advantage LMS Integration available for McGraw Hill SIMnet includes enhancements that will make your course even easier to deliver. The following table outlines the changes between the LTI Legacy (v1.1) integration and the new LTI Advantage (v1.3) integration.
To deploy deep assignment links from your LMS to your SIMnet course select the Integrate option. Visit the help topic for more details.
Visit the help topic for more details.
From the select the Edit/Assign option and click the Edit button. In the dialog box, enable the LTIA ACP Template option and click Save Details.
From the select the Organize option and click the Course Settings button. From the course details pane, enable the LTIA ACP Template option.
Copy the LMS Template Course and open the newly created LMS course to access SIMnet through the . Once opened, this initiates the Auto Copy Pair plus Relink process. The process will automatically copy the SIMnet course you enabled as an LTIA ACP Template, pair the assignments, and fix the LMS assignment links.
Single-sign-on
Assignment deep linking
Automatic grade sync
Manual grade resync
LMS side assignment/module orgainzation
Assignment relink push from SIMnet to LMS
Auto-Copy-Pair
Course level, navigation launch point
Assignment end-date sent to LMS
Modern security framework - OAuth 2.0
Consistant implemenation across LMS types
Improved user account creation/pairing process
Streamlined section creation/pairing process
Failed grade sync notification
Whole gradebook resync
Multi-assignment resync by sync status
Deploy 0-point assignment without creating gradebook column in LMS
Automatic deletion of LMS assignment and gradebook column when undeploying assignment link.
Automatic relinking for copied/duplicated sections
Auto-copy-pair template course designation in SIMnet
Assignment relink pull from LMS to SIMnet
Non-assignment grade column sync
Instructor grade comment sync to LMS
SIMnet assignment/module organization sent to LMS
Gradebook column scale synced to LMS
LTIA Assignment Integration Management and Deep Links
Note: To access the Assignment Integration section, start with clicking the Instructor LMS Launch Point, and selecting the #integrate-deploy-simnet-assignments-to-the-lms in the Instructor Integration Home
The first time visiting the Course Integration page, no assignments will be selected. Select the check box next to the desired assignments or groups to prepare the assignments for integration to your LMS. You can click the Class Home check box to automatically select all assignments in the course. Click the Confirm changes button to prepare the selected assignments for syncing to your LMS. If you would not like to make changes to your course, click the Reset changes button to return your page to the state it was in at the last LMS sync.
Note: The Refresh assignment data option is useful if you've modified course assignments in another browser.
Once you have confirmed changes, you will then see a Confirmation of the changes you will be making to your LMS. On your first viewing, you will only be linking assignments that you have selected. These assignments will all appear in the To Be Linked section of the page. Click the Deploy to LMS button to deploy the assignments to your LMS.
If you would not like to deploy changes to your LMS at this point, click the <- next to the Confirmation header to return to the previous page.
You will then get a confirmation window describing the changes occurring and that those changes are being deployed.
Note: This window with automatically close when the assignments have been deployed to the LMS.
After the assignment has been successfully deployed you can categorize or group the assignments with the standard LMS controls. Some Learning Management Systems may require you to publish or activate the assignment prior to making the assignment available to students or accepting grades from SIMnet.
Once you have made the deployed assignments from SIMnet, you will need to publish the Modulell and assignments in Canvas. To publish assignments in your Canvas course, click the Publish circle with a slash icon. You can deploy all assignments at once by clicking the top Publish icon or deploy each assignment in the module individually.
The SIMnet assignments are now deployed in your SIMnet course.
To remove deployed assignments visit the Course Integrate page and select or deselect assignments from your SIMnet course.
Click the Refresh Assignment Data button if you have made changes to the Edit/Assign page or the Organize page while viewing the Integrate coversheet. Those changes will be displayed below. Selecting additional assignments to integrate will cause them to be displayed in the To Be Linked section. Deselecting paired assignments will cause them to be displayed in the To Be Unlinked section. Unlinked assignments will have their grades removed from the Canvas gradebook. The Unchanged section is collapsed by default. Clicking the left arrow will expand the section and show unchanged assignments.
Warning: Removing a deployed assignment will also delete the LMS assignment and grading column.
Note: Your LMS has to have the REST integration endpoints setup for SIMnet to automatically remove LMS assignments and grades.
Note: Moodle doesn't support this feature.
Select the SIMnet assignment in your LMS to view and modify assignment policies of a deployed assignment.
Note: Updating the SIMnet assignment title, dates, and/or gradebook points will automatically update the LMS accordingly.
