Add Links in Blackboard to Keyboarding in SAM Activities and Resources

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

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

  • Add and organize the assigned activities and course materials for your Keyboarding in SAM course.
  • Configure assignment settings such as grading, attempts, feedback, time limits, due dates, and grade categories.
  • SAM activities are worth 100 points. To change this, edit the points for an activity in the Blackboard gradebook after adding the activity link.

    Editing points is not available in Blackboard LTI Advantage.

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 Keyboarding in SAM.

  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 Keyboarding in SAM 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.