Blackboard LTI 1.3 Integration - Adding SL&L activities to a Blackboard course

Adding SL&L activities to a Blackboard course

1. Login to your Blackboard faculty account and navigate to the Content page for your course.
2. Hover your mouse over Build Content and select the SL&L (formerly Via) tool.
3. Enter a Name for the assignment.

4. If you are using Grade Return for this assignment, select Yes for Enable Evaluation. Enter the maximum possible points for the assignment in the Points Possible field. (Note: SL&L and Blackboard do NOT need to have the same points possible. A percentage calculation from the SL&L activity will be entered in the Blackboard Results Center.)

   

5. Click Submit. The assignment link will now be displayed on the Content page.
6. Click on the assignment link.

7. A new tab will open. Choose the Specific Activity option.

   

8. Choose a course section and activity from SL&L, and click SELECT & SAVE in the upper right corner of the page.

   

9. A Success message will be displayed on the page. Click RETURN TO LMS. Clicking the link on the Content page in your Blackboard course will now take you directly to the SL&L activity.

   

Disconnecting a SL&L activity from a Blackboard assignment

1. Navigate to the activity in SL&L as either an instructor or administrator
2. Click the "more options" button (three dots) on the right side of the page
3. Click "Disconnect LMS Link"

Using Deep Linking to Bulk Create and Link Blackboard Assignments to SL&L Activities

Once you have enabled Deep Linking for your LTI 1.3 integration between Blackboard and SL&L, your Blackboard Course Admins and Blackboard Course Instructors can begin to use it to bulk create and link Blackboard assignments based on SL&L activities.

1. The Blackboard Course Admins and Blackboard Course Instructors can access the Deep Linking workflow from their Blackboard Course from the Build Content menu in the Content area (you can reach out to your Blackboard Administrator to know about the title of the Deep Linking access point).
2. Once you access the Deep Linking workflow option, a pop up will be displayed OR a new tab will open (based on how your Blackboard Administrator has set up the Deep Linking feature to open) where in you will be able to view a paginated list of activities (20 activities per page) from the course sections that you have access to in SL&L (please refer to the screenshot).
   1. If you are an administrator in SL&L, you will see a list of activities from open course sections that belong to the hierarchy nodes to which you have access.
   2. If you are an instructor in SL&L, you will see a list of activities from the open course sections for which you are the instructor.
   3. The list only includes activities that have been published, but are not linked to any LMS assignment.
3. You can filter the list of activities in the following ways:
   1. By searching based on Activity Title, Course Code, and Section Name.
   2. Using the View drop-down: This drop-down enables you to filter the list of activities based on 3 options.

      1. "Activities from all sections": Selecting this option displays a list of published, but unlinked activities from all open course sections that you have access to in SL&L.

         Note: If you do not have access to any open course sections as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course Instructor OR if no published activities have been created in the open course sections that you have access to as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course Instructor OR if all activities from the open course that you have access to as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course are already linked to an LMS assignment, an empty state message will be displayed.

         

      2. "Activities from matched sections": Selecting this option displays a list of published, but unlinked activities from course sections that you have access to in SL&L, which match the Blackboard Course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name.

         Note: From among the open course sections to which you have access as an SL&L Administrator or an SL&L Course Instructor, if there are no course sections that match the Blackboard course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name OR if no published activities have been created in the course sections that match the Blackboard course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name OR if all published activities from the course sections that match the Blackboard course (through which you have accessed the Deep Linking workflow page) based on Section ID or Section Name are already linked to an LMS assignment, an empty state message will be displayed if you select the "Activities from matched sections" option.

         

      3. "Selected Activities": Selecting this option displays a list of activities that you have selected after accessing the Deep Linking workflow page.

         Note: If you have not made any selections on the Deep Linking workflow page, an empty state message will be displayed if you select the "Selected Activities" option.

         

4. Search and select the activities that you would like to create and link as Blackboard Assignments.
5. Click the Add Activities button.