Imperial College London

Imperial Canvas LTI 1.3 / OIDC Platform Endpoints

Imperial's Canvas tenancy publishes the two documents an LTI 1.3 tool integrator actually needs, unauthenticated, on Imperial's own hostname: an LTI platform JWKS at /api/lti/security/jwks (200, 1,408 bytes of RSA public keys used to verify launch id_tokens), and an OIDC discovery document at /.well-known/openid-configuration (200, issuer https://canvas.imperial.ac.uk, RS256, authorization_code). The Canvas REST API itself is present but gated — /api/v1/accounts/self answers 401 "user authorisation required". No SCIM surface is exposed. This is the closest thing Imperial has to a documented, standards-conformant integration point, and it is Instructure's work.

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x-jwks
https://canvas.imperial.ac.uk/api/lti/security/jwks
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x-openid-configuration
https://canvas.imperial.ac.uk/.well-known/openid-configuration
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/conformance/imperial-college-london-education-standards.yml

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: imperial-college-london:canvas-lti-platform
name: Imperial Canvas LTI 1.3 / OIDC Platform Endpoints
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: canvas.imperial.ac.uk is a CNAME to imperialcollegelondon-vanity.instructure.com.
  The platform is Instructure Canvas. The keys, the tenancy and the launches are Imperial's; the LTI implementation
  is Instructure's.
description: 'Imperial''s Canvas tenancy publishes the two documents an LTI 1.3 tool integrator actually
  needs, unauthenticated, on Imperial''s own hostname: an LTI platform JWKS at /api/lti/security/jwks
  (200, 1,408 bytes of RSA public keys used to verify launch id_tokens), and an OIDC discovery document
  at /.well-known/openid-configuration (200, issuer https://canvas.imperial.ac.uk, RS256, authorization_code).
  The Canvas REST API itself is present but gated — /api/v1/accounts/self answers 401 "user authorisation
  required". No SCIM surface is exposed. This is the closest thing Imperial has to a documented, standards-conformant
  integration point, and it is Instructure''s work.'
humanURL: https://canvas.imperial.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://canvas.imperial.ac.uk
tags:
- Learning Management
- LTI
- OIDC
- Education Technology
properties:
- type: x-jwks
  url: https://canvas.imperial.ac.uk/api/lti/security/jwks
- type: x-openid-configuration
  url: https://canvas.imperial.ac.uk/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/imperial-college-london-education-standards.yml