Create your Pearson Course Add the Pearson Tool If your course will belong to a course group (copied from a template or a coordinator course), set up the template before creating student-use copies. Open your Blackboard course. Select Content from the left navigation. Select the Build Content tab, and then Pearson.             5. If you still don't see the tool you want, contact your system administrator. Provide the administration guide for Pearson integrations. 6. Create a new link. We recommend you name the link Pearson. For example: 7. Complete any other fields and then select Submit. Link your Pearson account to Blackboard If you don’t already have a Pearson instructor account, create one from the MyLab and Mastering site.  Under Register, select Educator and follow the prompts. Are you a section instructor or teaching assistant? 1. Select the Pearson link from the area where you chose to add it (see step 3).        2. Select Open Pearson. You may see another page telling you how to re-open your content.  If Pearson is not already open in another tab, return to your Blackboard course navigation and select the Pearson link again. 3. Select the product you want to add to your course. Your selection is permanent and can't be undone. 4. Select Get Started. 5. Agree to any authorization requests. 6. Sign in with your Pearson instructor account You can only link one Pearson account to your Blackboard account. If you enter your password and the screen does not change, it’s likely your entered your password incorrectly.  Try entering your password again, or select the Forgot your username or password? Link to reset your password and try again. 7. Select Get Started. Create your Pearson course 8. Create a MyLab or Mastering course or create a Revel, eText, or Live Response course. Set Up Grade Sync Open your Blackboard course.  Select the Pearson link.   Launch into your Pearson course.  In your MyLab, Mastering, or Revel course, turn on any grade settings and create assignments. If needed, set availability/due dates and choose grade sync settings. Then return to your Blackboard course to apply the guidelines to its names and settings. If you enter your password and the screen does not change, it’s likely you entered your password incorrectly.  Try entering your password again, or select the Forgot your username or password? Link to reset your password and try again.  To avoid issues opening courses and syncing grades, make sure names and settings do not have UTF-8 or these special characters: \ / " * < > + = | , % ! & 5. Navigate back to Blackboard and select the Pearson link. 6. Select Grade Sync. 7. Make selections in the Items to Sync list. You might need to wait a short while to see these items. Synced Pearson assignments are added to the first assignments group.  You can rearrange these in your Blackboard course. 8. To automatically sync grades as they become available, select On. If Off is selected, Pearson grades only sync to Blackboard when you select Sync Grades Now. 9. Use Sync Grades Now anytime to manually sync all existing grades. This includes grades available before you turned auto sync on. Any edits you make to Pearson grades and column names in the Blackboard gradebook might be overwritten to match Pearson grades. To fix this, make your changes to the Pearson gradebook and then Sync Grades Now. You can also download the Blackboard gradebook as a backup. See your LMS Help for instructions.   There may be a short delay after a student completes an assignment before the grades sync to Blackboard.  Let students know they may need to wait up to 30 minutes after completing an assignment to see their grades in Blackboard. Create Assignment-Level Links 1. From your Blackboard course, select or add a content area. To add a content area, select the plus (+) sign at the top of the left navigation. (See Blackboard Help for detailed instructions.)                   2. Select Build Content and then Pearson Links or the name your admin chose.                   3. Scroll to see all the links or search for specific links. Choose a column heading to sort. 4. Select one or more links and then Add links. The button shows the number of links you selected. 5. You'll see the new assignment links in the content area where you added them.   To add more assignment links, or to add links in a different section of your course, repeat the previous steps. Tips for using assignment links Assignment links work in a new Blackboard course paired with a new MLM course if you copy the same Pearson course paired with the original Blackboard course. Assignment links are automatically available to students unless you change their publish status in your LMS course. Assignment links for offline assignments or activities aren't supported. To see the links for practice and reading Mastering assignments, make sure they have due dates and then choose the Assignments option for grade sync. Select the practice and reading assignments and then sync grades. The links are now visible and associated grades show up as dashes in the gradebook.      

This document provides an overview of grading a group assignment. When grading a Group Assignment, you will see only one student in the group has uploaded that assignment. When you grade it, all members of the group will receive the same grade. You have the option of overriding the grade of any individual student. Accessing the Group Assignment From the Control Panel, click on Grade Center, then click on Needs Grading.  Click on the assignment title. Grading the Group Assignment Grade the Group Assignment as you would any individual assignment. If students have uploaded a file, open that file to access the assignment Add the assignment's score to the "Attempt" box. If you wish to leave comments, click on the small arrow in the light blue box and leave comments in the "Feedback to Learner" text box. Click Submit at the bottom of the box. All students in the group will receive the same grade. Changing a Student's Grade in a Group Assignment There may come a time when a student should receive a different grade than the other students in the group. To change one or more grades in a group: Locate the assignment in the Full Grade Center. Hover your mouse over the cell of one of the group members and click on the gray arrow that appears next to the score. It does not have to be the person to whom the grade is being changed. Click Group Attempt. In the "Group Members" box, you will see listed all of the group members and their scores. Click the pencil icon for the student whose grade will be changed. Type in the new grade and click the green check mark to save the grade. Click Exit or advance to the next group.

When you have received an Accommodations letter from the Accessibility Office and must create an Availability Exception on a test.  Click on the link to access a tutorial video on How to Add Test Availability Exceptions in Blackboard

Setting an exam to allow students to use the iPad Edition of LockDown Browser Login to Blackboard and open your course Scroll down to Course Management, click the arror for Course Tools 3. Once in Course Tools, select Respondus Lock Down Browser 4. Next to the exam title, click the pull down arrow, then select "Settings." 5. Select "Require Respondus LockDown Browser for this exam". 6. Expand "[+] Advanced Settings" under the "LockDown Browser" section, and select "Allow students to take this exam with an iPad". 7. Save the settings.  

Students with an F or W will now remain in the Grade Center. This change: Prohibits students' access to the course once they receive a W or F. Places a  icon beside the student's name.  If a faculty member prefers to hide a student with the above icon, a video tutorial is being made that addresses how faculty can show/hide rows (students) in the Grade Center. In the meantime, I've included at text-based tutorial below. If you have any questions, please let me know.  Tutorial  To show or hide users (students) with this symbol, you must do the following: Log into Blackboard. Go into the course in question. Click Grade Center under Course Management. Click Full Grade Center. Click the Manage button. Select Row Visibility. Check the box next to the student's name you want to show or hide. Click the button labeled Show Rows or Hide Rows, depending on your needs. Click Submit.

To find the “Show Test Results and Feedback to Students” settings for a quiz or test: First, change the setting within the Test Go to the test that you are wanting to edit Select Edit test Over in the right hand corner, it should saw Question Setting so select that Then under Feedback, make sure that Provide feedback for individual answers is selected (like the picture below)   Navigate to the location of the deployed test in your course Make sure your Edit Mode is ON, (top right of window) Click the edit menu (accessed by the little button to the right of the test title) Click Edit the Test Options. Scroll down the page to “Show Test Results and Feedback to Students” You can choose the options for when students can see the feedback. Here are the settings you will see by default: There are 6 main settings options: Score per question (Automatically set by default) – Shows the overall test scores and the scores earned for each individual question. PLEASE NOTE: if you leave this default box checked, ALL of the exam questions (but not the answer choices) will be available for the student to view after they submit their exam. All Answers – Shows the questions and all answer choices. Correct – Shows the questions and correct answers. Submitted – Shows the questions and the answer choices selected by students. Feedback – Shows the questions and any instructor feedback messages for each question. Show Incorrect Questions – Shows the questions and the answer choices selected by students with an indication that the answer is incorrect. If you check NONE of the Check-boxes – Shows the overall test score only. Here are what the students will see based on the above options: 1. Score Per Question (Note: with this default checked, students will see the exam questions): 2. All Answers: 3. Correct: 4. Submitted: 5. Feedback: 6. Show Incorrect Questions: If you check NONE of the boxes (only the total score displays): If you check ALL of the boxes:  1. Go to the test that you are wanting to edit 2. Select edit test 3. Over in the right hand corner, it should saw Question Setting so select that 4. Then under Feedback, make sure that Provide feedback for individual answers is selected (like the picture below)