What is BoClips

Boclips is a platform that provides a vast library of curriculum-aligned educational videos for teachers, EdTech companies, and publishers. It offers over 2.2 million rights-cleared videos from more than 650 educational content creators around the world. Boclips aims to enhance learning experiences by making it easy to discover, license, and integrate high-quality educational videos into digital courseware and classroom activities1.

It's designed to be a safe alternative to YouTube for educational purposes, with features like teacher-friendly filters, curriculum alignments, and distraction-free sharing. Boclips also uses AI to recommend videos that align with specific educational content, helping to create engaging and personalized learning experiences. For more details, please refer to their website here.

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Setting up BoClips with LTI 1.3 in OpenLearning

Step 1

Log in to OpenLearning and navigate to your Institution Settings > Integrations.

Step 2

Scroll down to the LTI Tool Providers section and click on + Add LTI tool provider.

  

Step 3

Enter BoClips as the tool provider name and on the Tool provider registration section, select LTI 1.3 for the LTI version.

Step 4

Enter these BoClips details into OpenLearning Tool provider registration fields.

• Launch URL: https://lti.boclips.com/search-and-embed

  • Launch URL in OpenLearning

  • Tool deep link service URL (optional) in OpenLearning

• Login initiation URL: https://lti.boclips.com/v1p3/initiate-login

  • OIDC Launch URL in OpenLearning

• JWKS URL: https://lti.boclips.com/.well-known/jwks

  • Key set URL in OpenLearning

Example:

 Note: These values from BoClips are the same for every integration and can be found in their documentation here.

Step 5

Scroll down and enter a Key pair name and click on Generate keys to get a public/ private key pair.

1. Public/Private key: you need to fill in a pair of the public and private keys in the PEM form. You also could use the previously stored key set. 
2. Note: You can generate or re-generate the keys right from the configuration page:

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Step 6

In Advanced Settings;

• Tick the Deep Linking checkbox

In Email address identification: 

• Select Personal Email Address

Click Save.

Note: The registration details will only be generated once the above settings are saved.

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Finalizing set up on BoClips

Step 1

Click on the tool again and copy the registration details. 

• Client ID.

• Deployment ID

• OAUth2 Access Token URL

• OIDC Auth URL

• KeySet URL

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Step 2

Please forward the copied registration details to the BoClips team for their input, and await their confirmation before proceeding with the steps outlined below.

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Adding BoClips widget to the course

Step 1

On your preferred course page, click on the Edit button to go into Edit mode.

Step 2

Go to the Widget menu and select Integration from the category dropdown.

Step 3

Click or drag the BoClips widget icon onto your page as with any other widget.

Step 4

Click on the Boclips Setup tab and if this is set up correctly, it should request your email address. Click the button to continue.

Step 5

Boclip should load now and allow you to select the video that you wish to add to this particular widget.

Step 6

Click the + Add button to add the video.

 

Step 7

That’s it! the video is now added and it should be visible and playable for the users in the course.

 

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Note: As this is not a native video tool in the platform, the completion tracking is limited. Tracking for 3rd party tools are currently limited to;

• No completion tracking

• Completed when viewed

• Completed when scored is above [treshold number]

 

 

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