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Add Links in Blackboard to Explore Activities and Resources

After setting up your Explore course, create links from Blackboard to activities or other content in Explore. Linked graded activities are included in the Blackboard gradebook unless you choose to exclude them.

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Before adding links to Explore activities, make sure your Explore course is set up the way you want it.

  • Add and organize the assigned activities and course materials for your Explore course.

Links created in this way are sometimes called deep links because they are not just web links but allow data to be exchanged between Blackboard and Explore.

  1. Open your Blackboard course.

  2. Go to a content area in your course and open the Content Market.

    • Blackboard Original: Click Content › Build Content.
    • Blackboard Ultra: Click + › Content Market.

  3. Click the Cengage tool.

    A list of assigned activities for your linked Explore course is shown.

  4. Click Select Content and select activities to include in your class.
    A selected activity is labeled "This activity is imported in your LMS" and a warning message says "You are about to re-import already existing assignments."

    Graded activities that have already been added are marked This activity is imported in your LMS. To avoid duplicate activity links and gradebook columns, do not import the same activity twice.

    If needed, change gradebook syncing for specific activities.

    By default, when you include a graded activity it is added to the Blackboard gradebook.

    To remove an activity from the gradebook, clear Add to Gradebook.

    To sync an activity to the gradebook without creating an activity link, first select Add to Gradebook and then clear the Add to Course checkbox on the left.

  5. Click Continue.

  6. Blackboard Original:Review the settings, select where to put your course links, and click Submit.