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Add Links in Sakai to WebAssign Activities and Resources

After setting up your WebAssign course, create links from Sakai® to activities or other content in WebAssign.

Note Category scores and overall course scores can not be synced to Sakai.

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

  • Add and organize the assigned activities and course materials for your WebAssign 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 WebAssign With Your Sakai 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 Sakai and WebAssign.

  1. Open your Sakai course.
  2. Click Add Content > Add Learning App.
  3. Click the Cengage tool.
    If the tool is not available, contact your administrator.
  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 WebAssign course are synced to Sakai.

    Date changes in your WebAssign course overwrite dates set in your Sakai course. For consistency, make sure your WebAssign and Sakai 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 Sakai 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.

Your link is added to the Sakai Lessons area.

If needed, you can reorganize the links in Sakai.