Hello. Today I'm going to demonstrate how to add content that's been assigned in a
LaunchPad course from Macmillan Learning to a content area within
Blackboard so it syncs with the Blackboard gradebook. So as you can see
we have a Blackboard course with no activities assigned to the gradebook. To
add content we're just gonna go to the plus icon on the left and select Content Area.
We're gonna make a new content area called "Launchpad." Then we just hit the
submit button and click into the LaunchPad content area, and now we can
build folders within here. So to do that we're going to go to Build Content and then
select Content Folder. The content folder we'll label as Week 1 and just hit submit.
Now we'll just click into the Week 1 folder and to add content from LaunchPad we
just go to Partner Content and select Commercial Content. We just click on
the Macmillan logo and the LaunchPad folder will show up right here. And we
can expand it by clicking on this little arrow icon to the left. And then we can
do that again for chapters and subsections within chapters. Any
activities that we've assigned in LaunchPad for a grade and a due date will have
a gradeable icon next to it as indicated by these three bars. We can
select these two activities, and then hit submit. Now we'll confirm that we want to put
them in week 1 and also the categories that we set up in LaunchPad do carry
over to the Blackboard gradebook as do the points. When we hit submit now those
activities are automatically added to the Week 1 folder of the LaunchPad
content area. If a student clicks on any of these activities LaunchPad will
automatically open up in a brand new tab and log them in and direct them to
exactly to that activity so they can take it.
Instructors can also preview the activity from here and everyone can
navigate to the rest of LaunchPad by clicking on the home button at the
top left. And of course if we go back to our Grade Center now, both of those
activities are now showing up as columns in the Blackboard Gradebook. If you
have any additional questions
Technical Support can be reached at the top right help tab of the LaunchPad home
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