Where scaffold runs
How scaffold embeds inside the LMS your institution already uses, and how a page you author ends up in front of your students.
Scaffold is the editor. It lives inside the LMS your institution already runs. Your IT team installs the connector once; you author inside the LMS you already use; your students access the work the same way they access everything else from your course.
What’s installed where
The editor itself runs inside the LMS’s authoring surface. From your perspective, that means:
- In Open edX, scaffold is an xblock you add to a Studio unit.
- In Moodle, scaffold is a native activity module you add from the activity chooser.
- In Canvas, D2L Brightspace, and Blackboard, scaffold launches through LTI 1.3. You add it from the same place you add an assignment or an external tool.
You don’t log in to scaffold separately. The LMS handles authentication.
How a page reaches your students
Once you’ve authored a course page in scaffold, the LMS treats it like any other graded activity. Your students find it in the same place they find their other coursework: the course module, the gradebook, the weekly schedule view.
When a student submits their work, the grade flows back through the LMS’s own gradebook. You see it where you’d see any other assessment grade. The grading happens inside the editor — scaffold doesn’t store student records of its own.
What IT needs to do
The first time your institution uses scaffold, the IT team installs the connector. After that, you can keep adding course pages without their help.
The install pages walk IT through it:
If your institution hasn’t installed it yet, the hosted playground lets you try the editor without anything installed. Nothing saves between sessions; it’s for trying the editor, not for authoring real coursework.
What’s next
- Your first page walks through authoring a multiple-choice question end to end.
- The editor covers every way to add and edit blocks.