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.
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 MindTap.
Open your Blackboard course.
Go to a content area in your course and open the Content Market.
- Blackboard Original: Click Content › Build Content.
- Blackboard Ultra: Click + › Content Market.
Click the Cengage tool.
A list of assigned activities for your linked MindTap course is shown.
Click Select Content and select activities to include in your class.
Graded activities that have already been added are marked
. 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 Blackboard.
Date changes in your MindTap course overwrite dates set in your Blackboard course. For consistency, make sure your MindTap and Blackboard 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 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.
Scores sync automatically when assignment attempts are submitted in MindTap and when you enter or edit scores in your MindTap gradebook.
Click Continue.
Blackboard Original:Review the settings, select where to put your course links, and click Submit.
The content page displays all the links you have added to your MindTap course and activities.
If needed, you can reorganize the links in Blackboard.