Connecting Publisher Content/Tools to Blackboard

Below are links to the user guides from various publishers/ tools on how to build a connection between your Blackboard course and their systems.

Category

LTI

Related Documentation

Category

LTI

Related Documentation

Publishers

Aktiv Learning

Aktiv Learning

 

Publishers

Cengage

Cengage

Assessment

Gradescope

Gradescope

Publisher

Hawkes Learning

  1. As an instructor in Blackboard, choose Courses.

  2. Select your course and choose Content.

  1. Select Add Content and Content Market.

  1. Under Institution Tools, select the "+" to add the Hawkes Learning placement.

  1. The Hawkes Learning link will be placed in your course "Course Content" area. 

How to Link a Hawkes Section to a Blackboard Course

  1. As an instructor in Blackboard, open your course, then open the Hawkes Learning Sync Tool.

  1. Sign in using your Hawkes Teach account email and password.

  2. Select the Hawkes course that matches the Blackboard course you are working in, your name as the Instructor, and the corresponding Hawkes section to link to.

  • Note: In most cases, you should only select one Hawkes section to link to a single Blackboard course.

  1. Select Continue.

Collaboration

Harmonize

Harmonize

Video Streaming

Kaltura

Kaltura and Blackboard

Publisher

Lingro Learning

When you add the Lingro Learning LTI link to your course, students can click on the link and will be prompted to make an account if they have not done so already. Passwords are optional.

After enrolling in the course, they will be prompted to enter an access code which they should have received after purchasing the courseware.

Option 1: Simple Connector

  1. Follow the steps on Adding LTIs from the Content Market in Blackboard Ultra to open the Content Market

  2. Find and Select Lingro Learning

  3. Make the link visible to students

  4. To track grading in Blackboard, you can create columns in the grade book for each unit and manually enter the grades as each unit is completed.

Option 2: Gradebook Sync

  1. Open your Lingro Learning Course and go to Instructor Tools > Course Set Up.

  2. Find the LTI Details and copy the LTI 1.3 Launch URL.

  3. On Blackboard, go to the Course Content page within your Ultra course, choose the Add Content  button wherever you would like to add the LTI.

  4. Select Create from the drop down menu.

  5. Select Teaching Tools with LTI connection

  6. Enter Lingro Learning for the name

  7. Paste the Launch URL copied in Step 2

  8. Optional: Check Grade Sync to create a single grade book column for all of the Lingro Learning activities.

  9. Save.

    1. Open Lingro Learning and go to Instructor Tools > Gradebook Sync and select the columns you want to sync up.

Assessment Tool

LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning

Publisher

Macmillan LTI

  1. Follow the steps on Adding LTIs from the Content Market in Blackboard Ultra to open the Content Market

  2. Find and Select Macmillan LTI Advantage Content

  3. Select Connect with Achieve

  4. After clicking Connect with Achieve, you’ll be prompted to enter the first name, last name, and e-mail address associated with your Macmillan account and click Submit

  5. On the Available course page you’ll see a list of all your available courses. Click the green Associate button next to the course you want to link to your Blackboard Ultra course.

  6. Note: If you have no courses listed in the table to associate, or you do not see your specific course available in the list, see this LMS Troubleshooting guide.

  7. Click Yes, Associate this Course.

  8. Click Back to Blackboard or simply close the browser tab to return to your Blackboard Ultra course.

  9. Rather than displaying the Connect with... options for each Macmillan product as it did before, the Course Tools page will now display a link to your Macmillan course page and the various Support Tools included with the integration.

 

Publisher

MyBusiness Course

MyBusinessCourse

Publisher

McGraw Hill

McGraw Hill

Publisher

Oxford Learning

Oxford Learning Link

Publisher

Pearson

Pearson

Collaboration Tool

Perusall

Perusall

Collaboration Tool

Piazza

Creating Links (Ultra View)

Creating a Link from a Link Placement

This will allow you to add a Link Placement to an Ultra course.

  1. When in an Ultra course, click the + sign in the area of the course where you would like your link to be and select Content Market.

  2. Locate the Piazza tool you’d like to add and click the plus sign in the bottom right hand corner of the tool panel.

  3. This will add a link to your course. Click the three dots icon next to the link to edit the link title if you would like.

  4. The link will be hidden from students by default. Click the eye icon to make the link available to students.

 

Publisher

Picmonic

Picmonic

Publisher

 

Sage Vantage

Publisher

Stukent

Stukent

Tool

Tevera

Tevera

Collaboration Tool

Teams

https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Ultra/Interact/Microsoft_Teams

Publishero

VHL Central

VHL Central

Publisher

Vista Higher Learning

Vista Higher Learning

Publisher

Wiley Plus

  1. Follow the steps on Adding LTIs from the Content Market in Blackboard Ultra to open the Content Market

  2. You should see Wiley Assignments, Wiley Resources, and Wiley Course Resources.

  3. Launching either tool will take you to the pairing screen in WileyPLUS, if you receive an error or the page does not launch make sure your API registration has been completed and your LTI and Placements are properly configured.

 

Publisher

W.W. Norton

W.W. Norton

Publisher

Zybooks

  1. Follow the steps on Adding LTIs from the Content Market in Blackboard Ultra to open the Content Market

  2. Find "zyBooks" in the list and hover over the "+" button in the lower corner.  

    Common error: A common mistake is to click on "zyBooks" or the zyBooks card itself, instead of the "+" sign. Be sure to click on the "+" sign button.

  3. This will add a zyBooks item to the course content.

    It is very important to EDIT the LMS settings for the placement link BEFORE connecting it to a zyBook assignment! Otherwise, grades will not pass back.

    To do so, click the three dots (...) to the right of the newly created zyBook placement link, it is usually named "zyBooks." Again do not click the link yet!

  4. The following Blackboard Ultra properties will open.

 

  • Change the placement link name to be the new assignment name.

  • Change the grade using to Points and a non-zero points value or Percentage

  • Set the Due date.

 

  1. We also recommend renaming the link before configuring it. To do so, hover over the name and click the "Pencil" icon. 

 

 

  1. Click the Save button to save new settings for the placement link in Blackboard Ultra.

 

Configure the link to a zyBook assignment

 

 

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