-: Hi everyone, and welcome to this presentation today
on LMS integration with Brightspace by D2L,
your link to a simpler and more engaging experience.
My name is Alex Rainford, I am the Associate
Marketing Manager here at Cengage for Impact
and Digital Platforms.
Today, I am joined by Melinda Champ,
a Customer Success Manager here at Cengage
who is taking the time to walk us through
the integration of one of our digital products,
MindTap with Brightspace.
So very brief before we jump into the actual integration
itself, we just wanted to cover a couple of benefits
that you should know about for LMS integration.
First, it provides a seamless user experience
for both yourself and students, meaning that they
will be able to access all of your digital course content
whether that be MindTap, CNOWv2, all through
their single sign on through Brightspace.
They'll also be able to deep-link activities
within MindTap to Brightspace so students can access
MindTap activities directly from Brightspace
and a really, really nice feature that people like
is the automatic grade return so you can populate
your Brightspace Gradebook with all of
the different MindTap activities and assignments
and sync them in with your other course grades,
and of course at Cengage we do have Personalized Services
from your Learning Consultants or your Digital Success
Specialists who should be able to help you
get your course set up and do some of the heavier lifting
for you when it comes to LMS integration.
A couple basics regarding Brightspace by D2L
integration itself, it does require a configuration
of your campus D2L/Brightspace server
and there's a good chance that this is already done for you
but that will need to be configured prior to integration.
You'll work then with your Cengage Learning Consultant
to have the course content you selected deployed
to your campus, and one important note
to mention here is you're gonna want to accept a token
for the actual integration itself, and this is gonna allow
the MindTap content to integrate directly
with your Brightspace course.
And finally, you're gonna want to link
your Cengage faculty account, and this is just
your instructor login that you use to access
all of your Cengage materials and instructor resources.
Very briefly, these are some of the products
that support integration, and if you have any
of these other products, they'll be able to integrate
into various Learning Management Systems.
Today for the presentation though,
we're gonna be focusing on MindTap and integrating that
into Brightspace.
From here, I am going to pass it over to Melinda Champ,
who's gonna take us through the actual integration
process itself.
-: Alright, so here you just see
the entry point into BrightSpace by D2L,
so I'm just gonna log in.
Everybody's outline may be a little more different,
depending on how the system administrators
at your current location have this set up.
So you can see in the Course Admin tool
this is an option that's available
that can be reverted to say edit course
or it can even be located in this gear symbol
where there's admin tools.
So it just depends on your outline
for that particular campus.
So if I click into my course administration,
this Course Builder under Site Resources
is what you're looking for for this particular integration.
So once I go into Course Builder,
I already have some modules already pre-populated,
I always suggest for my instructors to have
a Getting Started area for our master link.
So that's just a capability to have our support documents,
any additional videos, and syllabus information
that can be inserted into Getting Started,
and then obviously our registration and access point
into your master level link for MindTap.
You can add any additional modules by simply
just pulling in this module icon
into the location that you want the folder
to subside under, so I'm going to put Week 4
since I already have the first three,
and hit create, and you can see that module
easily populates underneath my course name, INT101.
So how do we get started with MindTap?
When you go into the add content area
on your left-hand side, you're going to see
some options that are available.
Cengage will always populate in this smaller, white box.
Ahead of training, you will want to actually ask
your system administrator to make sure you have
the resource to pull content from Cengage Learning
in your Add Content area, that doesn't automatically
populate at most accounts.
So ask your system admin to add that icon for you,
and you're going to take that icon, you can either drag
and drop that into the particular module,
or you can simply click once,
and select the module that you want to insert
that particular content into.
This will direct us towards the content selector.
This is you partnering with Cengage to pull content
from our resources that we have deployed
at your particular school.
So I'm looking for a particular title,
and I'm gonna put in Charlesworth, and so as I start
typing in the author or the title,
you're gonna see that start to minimize
to what is just available and deployed to your school
for the courses that you need.
So I need Understanding Child Development,
so now that I see that, I'm gonna click on this resource
and that's going to load into our next screen.
This is our course creation screen.
If you've never used MindTap before and you haven't
worked ahead of time with a Digital Success Specialist,
the first option is going to be the option
that you want to utilize and you're going to add in
the necessary content information for your course.
Most instructors who have used Cengage,
love copying from their existing course
and those will populate down here under Course Name
for you to copy from.
If you know of another instructor who has used
this course before, the course materials in this case,
this is MindTap for courseware,
you can copy from another instructor's outline
by just simply inserting their Course Key.
The last option is linking to an existing course
or section, and this is if I've created my course
on my instructor resource center,
on the backend, and all I have to do
is simply insert that into my course.
I'm going to choose to create a new MindTap course
so you can see the information that is normally necessary
to create a course.
So I'm gonna label it INT-101, since that's
my course number,
Integration Training is my course name
and then I always suggest the semester
that you are going to be utilizing this product in
and if you have more than one section,
put the section number.
This just allows you to have different variations
of the Course Name that you can use
over and over again in multiple semesters
once you copy from your initial course creation.
I'm going to put in a course start date, 27th
is a pretty good date to go with,
and that course end date.
My suggestion for the course end date
is to choose a date that is a week after the end date
so course ends on the 7th, I'm actually gonna select
the 14th, this will allow any incompletes
for students who are taking your course
or emergency situations that you may need to extend
a day or two.
And then I'm gonna select a Time Zone.
So if I select Time Zone, Eastern is normally
right around this realm, Central,
and then you're going to see your Mountain and Pacific Times,
so I'm gonna choose Eastern since that's the one
that I'm in.
And then course days and times aren't necessary
or the section but you can add those if you really want to.
And now that I have my proper course information,
I'm going to scroll down until I see a blue Continue button,
going to select that, and then we run into
our Content Selector.
This is how, this is where you will actually allow
the course to come over score values
in an overall course score, or individual activity score
component, so what that means is if I want one column
in the gradebook that's the name of my course,
then I would select this, and as the students
take assignments it will keep updating that one column.
If I want to bring in individual activities
for different chapters and I want them each
to have their own specific column in my gradebook,
and have those updated as they take
that specific assignment, then I'll choose
the individual activity score.
Individual's more common so I'm going to choose that option
and hit Continue.
We're going to allow this screen to load
and then now that I selected this to go
into my Getting Started area,
I'm going to hit the plus sign (+) there and you should see it
populated at the bottom.
Now you can take that particular option
and move it to the top, wherever that black bar populates
so I can organize this in the format that I need this
to look for the students.
Now most students come into your course
they've selected INT-101,
when they come into the content screen
and go into this area, INT-101 Integration Training
and Fall isn't going to mean anything to them.
So actually click on that resource link
and on the right-hand side here you're going to see
the INT name that I named my master link for MindTap,
I'm actually going to edit the link
and I am going to edit my name for my course
so that students know what to do with this link.
So the link itself doesn't change any of its components,
I'm just changing the name as it shows up for students.
So I'm going to label it Click Here to Register
and Access MindTap.
And you can name it eBook and Assignments,
you can name it Assignments and General,
it's just an initial registration process
that we need them to go into
and it's their master-level link
for this particular course.
I'm going to hit save and now that's populated,
so now students know what to do with this particular link.
Once we've done that, let's say we need to bring in
Chapter 1 into our module Week 1,
so that we can address that content
in that particular week.
I'm going to bring over the specific resources
and assignments that are going to be counting
towards their grade for Week 1, so we're going to go
through the same process.
We're going to take this Cengage Learning symbol
over here on the left-hand side.
This time I'm going to drag it and drop it
into that module so you can see that process.
Once I've gotten there, I'm back to my Content Selector
but now that I've tied a book to my BrightSpace course,
you're going to be able to see all of the resources
that are available with this particular course,
so if I scroll down, I can go into Chapter 1,
let's say I want to add the overall bookmarked link
to Chapter 1 in.
I want to add the Learning Objectives and Standards
by quality matters, outlines that I need,
those are available in the Content Selector.
I want to add this video case to add towards their grade,
a quiz, one scenario,
and say I accidentally choose a couple I don't need,
and then my wrapping it up.
So now that I've chosen that for Chapter 1,
I'm going to hit Confirm Selection(s),
and it's going to list all of the resources
and assignment links that I'm adding in, oops,
I added two scenarios I didn't need,
I'm going to uncheck those so I don't pull those scenarios
that I don't need in, so this is a good confirmation screen
and way to edit anything that you don't need to bring in.
Notice when I unchecked those, it unchecked them
in the second portion, this is only going to list
out of those links which one is adding a grade column
into your gradebook, so now you can see
I should only have four because those are the options
that I chose.
I'm going to now select Save,
and it's going to import
and navigate you back.
Okay.
So it may not look like it did anything,
but if I hit the plus sign (+) next to Week 1
where I populated that content, now you can see
those resource and assignment links are now populated
in the respective area that I wanted them
to show up in.
That is all the deep-linking process that you need
to be able to bring specific content
into specific areas from the curated content
that's available in MindTap.
The best "go-to" I would say to have if you run into
any particular issues or additional resources
you want to bring in, you would take
the Cengage Learning symbol and click into
Getting Started, best-kept secrets are always
all the way at the bottom.
So if I go down, you will see that you can actually
add in the Technical Support link,
and even the Cengage Unlimited Student Dashboard.
Now that I selected those, I need the outer,
there we go, I want to Confirm Selection(s),
it will list my resource links, note that they are
not a gradebook item so it's not going to populate there.
Then hit Save,
if I hit the plus sign (+) next to Getting Started,
you will see that content populated here
and here for those students so now all they have to do
is click or an instructor and import
a Tech Support ticket if they ever run into
any additional issues.
Now that I have populated that content in the way
that I need that to be for my course, I'm going to navigate
to the content area so you can see what that looks like,
so all those modules that I created, you will see them
populated on the left with the indication
of how many resources I have populated in each
respective module, so if I click on Getting Started,
students will easily be able to see where to click
to register, there's some browser and internet speed
settings, the User Guide for MindTap that's being utilized
and then you can see the Technical and Unlimited
Student Dashboard links.
If I go onto Week 1, same format, exactly
the resource links that I brought in. You can see
they're all external tool labeled because they're coming
from us as your partner. And that is how that
will populate in the respective Brightspace outline for you.
If you need to see anything in a student format,
you should be able to just preview as a student
and click on those links to ensure that that
is how you would like that to look for students.
Back to you, Alex.
-: Perfect!
Thank you Melinda for taking us through that demonstration
of how to integrate MindTap with Brightspace.
I'm just going to go ahead and briefly go over a couple
of other features that we have on cengage.com
that will allow you to get further training materials
and get more information.
So of course we have some great support for you here,
we have our Digital Success Specialists,
I know Melinda mentioned earlier, that are here to help you
do some of the heavy lifting when it comes
to LMS integration and answer any questions you may have.
We also have Customer Success Managers
who will work with campus LMS admins
to ensure that everything is set up correctly.
We also have a couple of great training websites
I want to quickly point you to.
So for cengage.com/training,
this will sort of pull up a list of all different resources
for all of our various digital platforms,
so when you first get here, for example
you can select which platform you're using
so in this case we'll select MindTap.
And what it's going to do is give you a whole bunch
of recorded webinars, webinars, training guides,
and other various resources that you can use
to navigate through MindTap.
You can also filter by instructor and student
but something really nice that we're going to do
is filter on LMS resource by Brightspace
so you can come down here and now you'll be able
to access all the different training and resources
that we have available for Brightspace and MindTap.
Another great link I want to quickly mention
is cengage.com/student-training
and this is a fantastic place for you to send your students.
Click on the link here, and what this does
is give them all the information they need
to get started so you don't have to worry
about lots of technical support questions
from your students when classes start.
You can simply send them here and they'll be able
to self-select a platform that they are using
as well as if they're using an LMS system
such as Brightspace.
And then it's going to be able to walk them through
all the different training materials and videos
that they need to successfully register their product
for Brightspace.
Finally, we always recommend putting in the LMS
Technical Support link that you saw Melinda add
into the Brightspace course itself.
That concludes our presentation today.
Thanks everyone for watching.
If you have any further questions or need anything else
related to LMS integration training,
you can visit cengage.com/training
and then select your digital platform.
Thanks for joining us and have a great semester.