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Integrate MindTap With Your LMS Course

Your LMS administrator must have set up the Cengage tool in LMS.

With this integration:

  • You and your students access your MindTap courses from LMS.
  • You can sync either your students' overall course grades or individual activity scores for the MindTap course to LMS.
Best Practice To help your students, use clear and consistent naming for your courses and sections in both LMS and MindTap. This is especially important if you integrate more than one MindTap section from the same LMS course.

How do I know if I'm using this integration?

Your Cengage tool will be in a different location depending on which integration you are using.

These instructions are for an older version of the integration which uses a Cengage navigation item in your course navigation. If you have a Cengage navigation item that works, you are using this integration.

Google Classroom Versions

How you add MindTap content to your Google Classroom depends on if your school uses the free or paid version of Google Classroom.

To see which version your school uses, open the assignment editor and look for the Add-ons panel.
  • If your assignment has Add-ons, your school uses the paid version.
  • If your assignment does not have Add-ons, your school uses the free version.

Multisection Courses

  1. Sign in to Cengage and create your multisection MindTap course.
    1. Create your initial section and finish setting up the learning path and scoring settings.
    2. Create multiple sections by copying your initial section. Set each section's information, including section name and instructors or TAs.
  2. Create your first LMS course section and link it to one of your MindTap course sections.
    1. Integrate an Existing MindTap Course With LMS
    2. Add Links in LMS to MindTap Activities and Resources
    3. Link to MindTap Activities and Resources
  3. Create additional LMS sections that link to each of your other MindTap sections.

Multisection Courses

LMS sections must be created and linked before you begin integrating MindTap courses. LMS permits section linking when enabled by your school or district administrator.

Each LMS section will be linked to a MindTap course.

  1. Create your multisection LMS course.
  2. Link your first LMS section to a new MindTap course.
    1. Create a New LMS-Integrated MindTap Course
    2. Add Links in LMS to MindTap Activities and Resources
  3. Set up your MindTap course.

    Finish setting up your course before copying it over to the rest of your LMS sections, so you only have to make these changes once.

  4. In your LMS section, click the Cengage link you just created.
    Cengage opens in a new tab.
  5. In LMS, open the next section and click the Cengage link.
    The Cengage course linking page opens in a new tab.
  6. Link the LMS section to a copy of your MindTap course.
    1. Copy a MindTap Course to a New LMS Course
    2. Add Links in LMS to MindTap Activities and Resources
  7. Repeat this process for each section in your LMS course.