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Link to MindTap Activities and Resources

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

Note Category scores can not be synced to Brightspace.

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

  • Add and organize the assigned activities and course materials for your MindTap course.
  • Configure assignment settings such as grading, attempts, feedback, time limits, due dates, point values, and grade categories.
Best Practice Use consistent assignment settings and a consistent schedule for due dates and times.
Prerequisites
Integrate MindTap With Your Brightspace 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 Brightspace and MindTap.

  1. Open your Brightspace course.
  2. Click the Content tab.
  3. In your module, click Add Existing Activities > Cengage.

    The Cengage tool may be named differently for your school. Ask your LMS Admin if you are unsure.

    If you do not see the Cengage tool, try this instead.

    1. Click Related Tools > Course Builder.
    2. Drag New Cengage Learning from Add Content to your module.
  4. Click Select Content and select activities to include in your class.
    Note Selecting a group of activities does not select all activities in the group. You must select each activity individually.

    Expand or collapse the course outline if needed.

    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.

    Due dates set in your MindTap course are synced to Brightspace. If your school uses a Brightspace Partner integration, available dates are also synced to Brightspace.

    Date changes in your MindTap course overwrite dates set in your Brightspace course. For consistency, make sure your MindTap and Brightspace courses are set to the same time zone.

    If needed, change gradebook syncing for specific activities.

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

    Scores sync automatically when assignment attempts are submitted in MindTap and when you enter or edit scores in your MindTap gradebook.

  5. Click Continue.

The content page displays all the links you have added to your MindTap course and activities.

If needed, you can reorganize the links in Brightspace.