Control who can integrate and use a mentor via LTI from your LMS (e.g., Canvas), and who can see the mentor inside the mentorAI web app.
Open the mentor’s Settings.
Find LTI accessible and toggle:
- On → The mentor appears in your LMS’s External Tool / Deep Linking picker and can be added to a course.
- Off → The mentor does not appear in the LMS picker; any existing LTI link will show an error after refresh.
- In a course: Add External Tool → choose your mentor integration → select the mentor (e.g., AI Socratic Mentor) → Add Item → launch and chat.
- If you later toggle Off and Save, refreshing the Canvas item shows an error, and the mentor is removed from the add-list.
- If the mentor is marked admin-only in the mentorAI web app and LTI accessible is On:
- Other users won’t see the mentor in the web app
- But students can still access it in the LMS
- Use this to keep a mentor hidden in the web UI while leaving LMS access intact.
Canvas admins:
- Do not need a mentorAI account
- See all mentors available to the LMS environment (system-admin level)
Instructors:
- Must have a mentorAI account using the same email as in the LMS
- This filters the LMS picker so instructors only see mentors they created
- In mentorAI → open the mentor’s Settings → toggle LTI accessible = On → Save.
- (Optional) Set Administrators can view if you want the mentor hidden in the web app but still usable from the LMS.
- In Canvas:
- Add External Tool → choose your mentor integration → select the mentor → Add Item → launch
- To revoke LMS access:
- Toggle LTI accessible = Off → Save
- Existing LMS links error after refresh and the mentor disappears from the add-list.
- On → mentor appears in LMS picker; launchable in courses.
- Off → mentor disappears from LMS picker; existing links fail on refresh.
- Admin-only (web) + On (LTI) → mentor hidden in web app but available to students in LMS.
Use these controls to manage LTI visibility and access without exposing mentors broadly in the web app.