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18 changes: 15 additions & 3 deletions source/instructors/admin/integration/lti-app.rst
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Expand Up @@ -121,12 +121,13 @@ Toggling **Hide Not Started Assignments** to "on" will suppress the display of a
Filter Learners for Mentors
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Enabling **Filter Learners for Mentors** to "on" will allow you to only show Mentor/Observers specific students that you wish them to see/manage in the Codio course.
Enabling **Filter Learners for Mentors** to "on" will allow you to show Mentor/Observers only specific students that you wish them to see/manage in the Codio course.

To set this up, edit your LTI app as set up above or send as a custom parameter adding `codio_custom_mentor_for` as a custom field entering as the parameter either the students email addresses or their LMS user IDs. To enter multiple students separate with comma (',')
To set this up, edit your LTI app as set up above or send as a custom parameter by adding codio_custom_mentor_for as a custom field, entering as the parameter either the students' email addresses or their LMS user IDs. To enter multiple students, separate with commas (',').

Example:


.. code:: ini

codio_custom_mentor_for="student1@email.com,student2@email.com"
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.. figure:: /img/lti/filter_learners.png
:alt: Filter learners for mentors

If you don't enable **Filter Learners for Mentors**, then mentors can see all the students in the course and access all students' work, even those for whom they are not a mentor.

.. note:: If you don't enable Filter Learners for Mentors, then mentors can see all the students in the course and access all students' work, even those for whom they are not a mentor.



**In Canvas:**

After you have enabled Filter Learners for Mentors in your course's LTI/LMS settings, then go to Canvas and complete the following:

1. In the **People** section of the course, find the mentor and click the three vertical dots on the right of the name, then click **Edit Role**.
2. Change the role to **Observer**.
3. Click the three vertical dots on the right of the name and click **Link to Students**.
4. Find and click the names of the students associated with that mentor. Once done, click **Update**.

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