Merital on your ManageBac
Connection via Public API token managed by the school admin. No LTI (ManageBac doesn't support it as consumer) but a cross-LMS dashboard in Merital and automatic grade return to ManageBac's gradebook.
What Merital does with your LMS
Seven standard capabilities, identical across providers. What changes per LMS is how we connect, not what we do.
Secure authentication
Standard OAuth 2.0 (Moodle/Canvas/Blackboard/Google) or Public API token managed by the school admin (ManageBac). AES-256-GCM encrypted tokens in database.
Courses and classes
Merital lists and syncs the teacher's courses exactly as they are in your LMS, respecting enrollment and roles.
Assignments
Per course, Merital sees the LMS tasks and the teacher enables Merital grading assignment by assignment.
Student submissions
Merital lists submissions per assignment and marks which ones are pending grading.
File download
On-demand download of PDFs or images for each submission. Temporary cache, never permanent duplication. The file lives in your LMS.
Grade to gradebook
When the teacher publishes in Merital, the grade appears automatically in the LMS gradebook. No copy-paste.
LTI 1.3 launch
The teacher opens Merital right from the LMS in one click, without leaving the flow. Applies to LMS that support LTI Advantage.
Not supported by the LMS
The same grading interface across all your LMS
Moodle, ManageBac, Canvas, Blackboard or Classroom: when you grade, you land in the same Merital UI. Your faculty learns once, grades everywhere.
How ManageBac connects
Your school admin does it once. Teachers then sign in with their school Google account.
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Admin generates Public API token in ManageBac
Settings → Develop → API Manager in ManageBac. Copy the token and paste it in Merital. Merital AES-256-GCM encrypts it immediately.
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Merital validates the token and fetches the school
Automatic health check. If it fails, Merital tells you exactly which permission is missing — no opaque API error messages.
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Teachers sign in with Google
Sign in with school email. Merital looks up the email in ManageBac and resolves which classes they teach without creating another account.
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Teacher sees their classes and grades
The teacher sees only THEIR classes, isolated from the rest of the faculty (strict multi-tenancy). Open an exam, grade, publish, and the grade appears in ManageBac.
ManageBac FAQ
Merital IB for your school
30 days with your full IB faculty. 1-hour kickoff with your IB coordinator to align rubrics.