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Link to SAM Activities and Resources

After setting up your SAM course, create links from Blackboard to activities or other content 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 SAM activities, make sure your SAM course is set up the way you want it.

  • Add and organize the assigned activities and course materials for your 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 SAM.

  1. Open your Blackboard course.

  2. Add SAM content to your course.

    Blackboard Original

    1. Click Content › Build Content › Cengage Content.

      If the Cengage tool is not shown under Build Content, see Can't Find Cengage Content in Blackboard.

    Blackboard Ultra

    1. Click + › Content Market.

    2. Click Cengage Content under Institution Tools.

      If the Cengage tool is not shown under Institution Tools, see Can't Find Cengage Content in Blackboard.

  3. 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.

  4. Click Continue.

  5. Blackboard Original:Review the settings, select where to put your course links, and click Submit.