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Integrate MindTap With Your Blackboard Course

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

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

With this integration:

  • You and your students access your MindTap courses from Blackboard.
  • You can sync students' individual activity scores to Blackboard.

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 Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals/Standard or Google Workspace for Education Plus.

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 Google Workspace for Education Plus.
  • If your assignment does not have Add-ons, your school uses Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals/Standard.

Single-Section Courses General Procedure

  1. Create your course in Blackboard.

  2. Choose one of the following:

  3. In your MindTap course, assign the activities you want to use.

  4. Link to MindTap Activities and Resources

  5. Add Links in Blackboard to MindTap Activities and Resources

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 Blackboard course section and link it to one of your MindTap course sections.

    1. Integrate an Existing MindTap Course With Blackboard

    2. Add Links in Blackboard to MindTap Activities and Resources

    3. Link to MindTap Activities and Resources

  3. Create additional Blackboard sections that link to each of your other MindTap sections.

Multisection Courses

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

Each Blackboard section will be linked to a MindTap course.

  1. Create your multisection Blackboard course.

  2. Link your first Blackboard section to a new MindTap course.

    1. Create a New Blackboard-Integrated MindTap Course

    2. Add Links in Blackboard 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 Blackboard sections, so you only have to make these changes once.

  4. In your Blackboard section, click the Cengage link you just created.

    Cengage opens in a new tab.

  5. In Blackboard, open the next section and click the Cengage link.

    The Cengage course linking page opens in a new tab.

  6. Link the Blackboard section to a copy of your MindTap course.

    1. Copy a MindTap Course to a New Blackboard Course

    2. Add Links in Blackboard to MindTap Activities and Resources

  7. Repeat this process for each section in your Blackboard course.