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Adding a Server in Respondus

After instructors add questions to Respondus and edit them, the questions can be published directly to Canvas courses, either in Question Banks or Quizzes.  If this is the first time publishing, you will need to setup the connection to UHD Canvas.  Adding a server requires Administrator rights on your computer.  If you are doing this from a campus computer, you may need to contact Help Desk for assistance, 713-221-8031.  

Publish Questions to Canvas


1. Click the Preview & Publish tab. (You must already have questions loaded into Respondus, so go back to the Start tab if needed.)  Click the Publish option on the left and then click Publish Wizard.

Select preview and publish tab, start wizard


2. Select whether to publish questions to a single course or to multiple courses.  If you need the same quiz pushed to more than one course, select the multiple courses option.
For the second section, you may not already have a saved UHD Canvas option.  If that is the case, select - add new server - and click Next.
Select -add new server-


3. Select the option to choose for preconfigured server settings and click Next.
Select Yes, check for preconfigured server settings


4. A window will indicate that preconfigured server settings were configured.  (If you do not get this Success! message, make sure that you are using a Respondus installation for UHD and not a different school.)  
Enter server name, login information, and run the connection test.


Enter the required settings.

  • The name can be whatever you prefer.  If you teach at other institutions, you may want to specify UHD in the name to differentiate.
  • Enter your login
  • Select the Run connection test option and click Next.  

You will see message below:
Log in through window then close

When you click OK, Respondus will open its own version of a browser window which then goes to the Canvas login page.  If the browser does not open, Respondus may need to run an update.  You will need to have administrator rights for the application to update.
 
Click the login button and procede to login with your credentials.  Once your login has completed and you can see your course list, you do not need to continue the session.  Click the button at the top labeled Close After Login and the browser window will close.

 

If the connection was successfully made, you will be able to select courses from your course list and publish quizzes or question banks as needed.  Be aware that question banks allow questions to be easily reused for additional quizzes.  



For additional support, Email TTLCHelp@uhd.edu.