Getting Started

1. Click on BioSig-ID™ Admin tool in the Course Navigation menu.
   
2. Click  Authorize to allow BioSig-ID™ access to your course. This is a one time action.
   

BioSig-ID Admin App Location

If the Admin App is not available, please contact your Canvas Admin.

Try it out! BioSig-ID Admin demo page . (This is not attached to a Canvas instance and no actual course is being adjusted).

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Quiz Intercepts

The first tab is Quiz Intercepts. Place a check mark next to quizzes that you would like to guard with BioSig-ID.

Quiz Intercept Tab with highlighted Checkbox for BioSig-ID activation on Quizzes.

1. Hide Quizzes from Navigation Menu - This is active by default. “Quizzes” is hidden from the course navigation menu to prevent student bypass.
   
2. Open BioSig-ID™ instances in a new tab - Force all created BioSig-ID™ instances to open in a new tab. Useful for small resolution devices, but not necessary for Canvas.
   
3. Optional postfix for guarded quiz links - By default, this box contains (protected by BioSig-ID™). This wording will appear in the module next to the quiz. If you prefer to not let students know in advance that an exam is gated, you can remove this wording in each course. Alternatively, if your institution would like to customize this wording or to never include this wording please reach out to the BioSig-ID™ team for customization.
   

Click on the blue button ladled "Convert the Selected quizzes to BioSig-ID™ guarded quiz link" to apply your settings.

When this is completed you will receive a notification.

Click the Close button to continue.

"Convert the Selected quizzes to BioSig-ID™ guarded quiz link" button.

  Once a quiz has been converted it will appear in Modules with the postfix "protected by BioSig-ID".

1. Auto add module requirements - Ensures that the student goes through the BioSig-ID™ tool instance before the next course content item is made available. This creates all the Canvas module requirements and prerequisites automatically.
   
2. Create/Use BioSig-ID™ assignment group - Groups BioSig-ID™ tool instances together inside “Assignments”.
   
3. Open all BioSig-ID™ instances in a new tab - Force all created BioSig-ID™ instances to open in a new tab. Useful for small resolution devices, but not necessary for Canvas.
4. Unlock BioSig-ID™ assignment instances on view - By default, students need to validate successfully to pass the “submit the assignment” requirement. Activating this setting allows any newly created BioSig-ID™ instance to use the “view the item” alternative instead. This is not advisable except for usage early in the course.
   

Apply and Review:

Click the Add Selected Items button.

When completed, you will receive a notification. Click Close to continue.

Within the Canvas modules the Tool Instances you added will be shown as a BioSig-ID validation assignment above the course items protected.

Moducle with Tool Instance applied.

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Add Instructions

Select where you would like to place the BioSig-ID™ Instruction Module.

Instructions will appear before the module you select.

Add BioSig-ID Instructions Tab

Configuration Options:

Auto add module requirements - Module prerequisites are automatically added to ensure the end-user goes through the BioSig-ID™ enrollment process before the next module becomes available. This is on by default.

Open all BioSig-ID™ instances in a new tab - Force all created BioSig-ID™ instances to open in a new tab. Useful for small resolution devices, but not necessary for Canvas.

To finalize click the "Add Instructions" button.

Within Modules, the BioSig-ID™ Instruction Module will appear like this:

Sample BioSig-ID Enrollment Module

Please reach out to the BioSig-ID™ team if you would like to customize the Instructions introduction.

The BioSig-ID introduction page will provide users with a video showing how to enroll, where to get support, and helpful tips. After clicking next the user will then be directed to an enrollment/practice section.

BioSig-ID Intro Instructions Sample

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Advanced Tabs for Canvas Admins

The following tabs are available only to Canvas Admins with high enough access to look at multiple courses.

Canvas only allows one-hour API tokens.

This can be extended via a refresh as some of these advanced tabs can require significant time.

Unfortunately due to the multi-threaded nature of the underlying code we have not been able to implement this refresh token system.

As an alternative we have brought back the option to support non-expiring admin tokens to overcome this 1-hour limit.

Please reach out to your BioSig-ID™ contact for additional details.

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Update All Courses

(Only for Admins)

Update All Courses - Mass apply "Fix Quiz-intercept links".

Update All Courses tab

BioSig-ID Admin App can now update all courses in a single action.

This is useful at the start of a new semester to  ensuring all BioSig‑ID™ quiz intercepts are functional.

Filter Options:

1. SIS ID
   
2. Course Title
   
3. Prefix
   
4. Course Term
   

Canvas  one-hour of API call limit - In the rare situation this happens, please run another scan to process the remaining courses.

Only the courses available to your API access level can be updated. Please use higher Canvas access credentials if the course count does not reflect what is expected.

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Quick Deploy

(Only for Admins)

Quickly incorporate BioSig-ID™ within existing courses.

Quick Deploy Tab

The quick deploy system consists out of three steps.

1. Filter down the courses that need to be considered. (We need to obtain ALL courses from Canvas. This might take a while.)
   
   Filter Options:
   
1. Sub Accounts
2. SIS ID
   
3. Course Title
   
4. Prefix
   
5. Course Term
   
2. Select the courses to confirm (there is an "All" option available in the top left corner of paginated result list).
   

            Optionally: further filter by setting a Course-content item-title

Quick Deploy summary with checkbox location.

      3. Commence the processing by clicking "Quick Deploy to Selected" the button.

This will first scan each course to see if it contains any items that can be converted, and verify if the content items match the item-title filter if that was specified.

Then it will take all the matching quizzes to replace their module entry with a BioSig-ID™ quiz-intercept, and any matched gradable items for conversion to add BioSig-ID™ tool-instance gating.

Finally any course processed to rely on any BioSig-ID™ usage will have the BioSig-ID™ instructions added.

To prevent reprocessing a course that was already quick-deployed or manually processed; all courses are automatically eliminated from the initial search results if any BioSig-ID™ item is found within.

The quick deploy will max out on locating 350 courses. Run the quick deploy again to find additional courses for deployment until 0 courses are found.

NOTE: On Canvas instances with a lot of courses please consider relying on a non-expiring admin token that requires additional configuration for your BioSig-ID™ interface account.

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Course Construct Report

(Only for Admins)

Administrators can generate an Excel report on how BioSig-ID™ is implemented throughout courses.

Configure filters to generate a basic, or more detailed, report.

The Excel report only looks for BioSig‑ID™ module items.

Course Construct Report tab

Filter Options:

1. Enrollment term - limit the courses down to an enrollment term. This saves time generating, and reviewing the report.
   
2. Show (group by) instructors - Courses will be grouped by instructor. If a course has multiple teachers the entry will be listed separately for each instructor.
   
3. Show module item titles - Activating this setting will provide additional details regarding the Canvas module item title of each instance.
   
1. Enroll: Yes/no - indicates weather enrollment instructions are added.
   
2. Tool: Numerical value - indicates number of Tool Instances.
   
3. Quiz: Numerical value - indicates number of Quiz Intercepts.
   
4. Show courses - Choose either courses with BioSig‑ID™ in use,  or without.
   
5. Course published state - filter courses based on whether or not they are published.
   

Sample Canvas Course Construct Report