Connect a source

Bring in documents from the systems they already live in, or by uploading them directly.

Connect CampusMind to where your documents already live, so remediation can work your real backlog instead of one-off uploads.

Sources

Source	What it pulls from
Canvas	Courses in your connected instance.
Blackboard	Content areas in your connected instance.
Brightspace	Courses in your connected instance.
SharePoint	Document libraries you grant access to.
Manual	PDFs you drag in yourself, when you don't need an integration.

Every document records the source it came from, and connected sources can write the corrected file back — see Replace original file below.

Who sets a source up

Getting a source working takes two things, and only the second one happens in the product.

Stage	Who does it	What it involves
Onboarding	CampusMind's developers, with your technical team	Registering CampusMind with your Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace or SharePoint environment and arranging the API access it needs. Done once, before anyone signs in.
Connecting	Each person who runs a course	Entering your system's URL and signing in to authorize CampusMind for your own account. Takes a minute, from the screen where you pick a course.

There is no source configuration for you to fill in

Nobody on your team enters API credentials or secrets in CampusMind — not a User, not an Admin. If a source can't be reached at all, that's an onboarding matter for Support, not a setting to change.

Start a run from a source

From the Document Accessibility Hub, choose Make Course Accessible. The picker lists the four integrations with a connection badge on each.

The Choose LMS Integration dialog showing Canvas selected, with Blackboard and SharePoint marked Connected and Brightspace marked Not Connected — Pick one and choose Continue. A Not Connected source still lets you through — it just finds nothing.

Canvas, Blackboard and Brightspace land on Select a Course to Convert. SharePoint asks for a Site and then a Library instead.

The badge in the top right of the selection screen tells you where you stand. If it reads Not connected, open the gear icon on the right of the page heading and give the dialog your institution's URL for that system.

The Connect Canvas dialog showing a connection status of Not connected, a Canvas LMS URL field filled in with https://classbuddy.instructure.com/, and a Connect with Canvas button — Canvas, Blackboard and Brightspace each ask for your own URL. SharePoint doesn't — it goes straight to Microsoft.

Choose Connect with Canvas — or the equivalent for your source — to hand off to the sign-in page.

Your LMS asks you to sign in, if you aren't already, and then to let CampusMind act for your account. SharePoint routes through Microsoft in the same way.

The Canvas authorization page reading CampusMind_integeration is requesting access to your account, with the signed-in person's name and email address redacted, above Cancel and Authorize buttons — Choose Authorize to return to CampusMind with the badge switched to Connected.

The authorization belongs to your account, not the institution's, so a colleague opening the same screen may still see Not connected until they do this themselves.

Pick the documents

Once you're connected, the course dropdown fills in. Selecting a course lists every PDF it holds, with each file's size, pages, status, and a link to the original.

Select All takes everything; Select Unrun Files takes only what hasn't been remediated yet.

Select Unrun Files is the one you want when working down a backlog. You can select several courses at once — added in v3.0.0 — instead of working through them one at a time.

Choose whether to overwrite the original

Below the document list sits Replace original file, off by default.

The foot of the course document list showing per-file statuses including a failed file with its failure reason, above the Replace original file toggle in the off position — Off keeps the original and uploads the corrected file alongside it in the LMS.

Toggle	What lands in the LMS
Off (default)	The corrected file is added as a new file. The original stays.
On	The original is overwritten.

This is decided here, before the run. There is no after-the-fact choice.

Choose Next: Configure Remediation to carry on to the strategy and settings, which are the same for every source — see Upload & remediate.

Connector permissions

Settings → Connectors carries two tenant-wide toggles, Actions (action execution) and Triggers (event triggers), both on by default. Changes take effect after saving, and turning one off turns it off for everyone in the institution.