LTI app integration for RingCentral

What's New?

We've updated RingCentral for LTI with new features that help keep your RingCentral Video meetings secure. Choose to only allow authenticated users into your class meetings and edit a recurring meeting series.

RingCentral for LTI makes it easy to schedule and manage RingCentral Video meetings in your favorite learning management system in a native way. Users can transform their LMS application, whether they are instructors or students, into a powerful tool to coordinate their RingCentral Video meetings and online classroom.

Current LMS applications supported by RingCentral for LTI include Blackboard, Canvas, Brightspace by D2L, and Moodle.

RingCentral for LTI for Instructors are able to:

1. Schedule a RingCentral Video meeting with a meeting password for added security
2. Schedule recurring meetings on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis
3. Start a RingCentral Video meeting
4. Configure RingCentral Video meeting settings: use a personal meeting ID, require a meeting password, enable waiting rooms, restrict screen-sharing, only allow authenticated users, and more
5. Delete a scheduled RingCentral Video meeting
6. View their upcoming meetings in the My meetings tab
7. View any previous RingCentral Video meetings

RingCentral for LTI for Students are able to:

1. View their upcoming meetings
2. Join a meeting
3. View any previous meetings

Benefits:

Abides with LTI 1.3 Standards

RingCentral for LTI abides by the LTI 1.3 standards. This means that while using the integration, users can feel at ease knowing it follows the latest security practices for authentication (OAuth 2.0) and message exchange between RingCentral Video and your LMS, as recommended by IMS Global Consortium.

Hold virtual office hours any time, any place.

Schedule meetings to set consistent office hour sessions. Require a meeting password for private one-on-one meetings.

Elevate your online study sessions

Students can access RingCentral Video meetings directly from their LMS to view upcoming and previous class meetings and topics. Assign and manage your student's virtual study groups. Simply enable the join before host function to allow students to collaborate together on RingCentral Video meetings.

Streamlined lesson management

Use the upcoming and previous meeting tabs to measure what lessons have been covered, and what lessons need attention. Get a 360 view of your virtual classroom’s interactions including the title, duration, and date/time of each meeting scheduled.

Getting Started

Follow the steps in the following admin guides to start using RingCentral for LTI

1. RingCentral for LTI: Canvas
2. RingCentral for LTI: Moodle
3. RingCentral for LTI: Brightspace by D2L
4. RingCentral for LTI: Blackboard

Resources

1. Read the release notes
2. RingCentral for LTI Datasheet
3. Blackboard Demo Video
4. Canvas Demo Video
5. Moodle Demo Video
6. Brightspace by D2L Demo Video

Original release date: 2020-11-09

Requirements

1. RingCentral for LTI currently supports Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle, and Brightspace by D2L
2. You must be using the RingCentral App for desktop or web
3. Support for all browsers
4. Available to RingCentral Office editions Premium and Ultimate
5. Updated: 06/08/21