Blackboard Integration Features

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Roster Sync

Each time you launch Perusall from Blackboard, a roster sync is run in the background.  Any students that have added to your LMS course will be added to your Perusall course roster (under the Students tab), and any that have unenrolled will be removed from the course.

Group Sync

If enabled by your admin, to access Blackboard group sync, navigate to your Perusall course Settings > Grouping, select Specify groups, and then click Import Groups from Blackboard to trigger a pop-up window allowing you access to your Blackboard group sets.  Select one group set to apply to your Perusall course.

Grade Sync

If you'd like to sync scores from Perusall to your Blackboard course, in your Perusall course, navigate to Settings > Scoring > LMS grade sync.  Learn more about Grade sync in LTI 1.3.

  • A student’s average score is each individual assignment score summed and then divided by the total number of assignments, while the total score simply takes the sum of across all assignments.

    Syncing the average or total score rather than individual assignment scores saves time because  Perusall will automatically create a grade book column in your LMS course that matches the summary column in your Perusall course, and send the scores for all assignments that have been released and are passed their due date.  To set up average or total grade sync:

    • Launch into your Perusall course> Click Settings > Scoring > scroll to Grade sync to LMS > select Automatically sync students' average or total scores back to the LMS > save.

    Students will click the Perusall link you created in Blackboard Instructor Set Up, and Perusall will pass their average or total scores back to Blackboard as you release assignment scores in Perusall.

  • Our LTI 1.3 integration gives instructors the opportunity to manage how gradebook columns in your LMS are created. Instructors can allow Perusall to automatically create LMS gradebook columns for each Perusall assignment, or they can manually create deep links to individual assignments in the LMS.  Released scores can then be sent back to your LMS.

    • If you select to sync students’ individual assignment scores, by default, each time you create an assignment in your Perusall course, a corresponding grade item will automatically be created in your LMS gradebook.  As a result, student scores that have been released in the Perusall gradebook will automatically sync (unless using manual sync). Follow the step below to set this up:

      • Launch into your Perusall course: Click Settings > Scoring > LMS grade sync:
        • Set Grade sync to LMS to Automatically sync individual assignments scores back to the LMS
        • Set LMS gradebook column management to Perusall creates gradebook columns in LMS for each Perusall assignment automatically.
        • Click Save.

      Students will click the Perusall link you created in Blackboard Instructor Set Up, and Perusall will pass their individual assignment scores back to Blackboard as you release assignment scores in Perusall.

    • If you would like to create deep links to each individual assignment, Perusall will not automatically create the gradebook columns. Follow the steps below to set up deep links:

      • Launch into your Perusall course: Click Settings > Scoring > LMS grade sync:
        • Set Grade sync to LMS to Automatically sync individual assignments scores back to the LMS
        • Set LMS gradebook column management to Instructor creates deep links in LMS; no Perusall gradebook columns will appear in LMS until deep links have been created.
        • Click Save.
      • Return to your Blackboard course, and you can create deep links.

Troubleshooting Grade Sync

  • When a Perusall course is set to Perusall creates gradebook columns in LMS for each Perusall assignment automatically (under Settings > Scoring > LMS grade sync > LMS gradebook column management), this error generally stems from the automatically created gradebook columns being deleted in Blackboard.  This can usually be fixed by clicking Sync to LMS beneath the corresponding assignment in the Perusall gradebook to force Perusall to recreate the gradebook column.

    Learn more about grade sync in LTI 1.3.

Creating Deep Links in your Blackboard Course

    1. Create your assignments in Perusall first.
    2. In your Blackboard Learn course, navigate to a Content Area, ensure Edit mode is enabled, and click Build Content > Perusall Deep Link.
    3. In the next screen, select Perusall. A window will pop up that will allow you to select a Perusall assignment to link.
      1. Under Assignments, click on the dropdown to select an assignment.
      2. Ensure that Import grading information to LMS is enabled, and click Link to this assignment.
    4. Finally, open the assignment, and it will take you directly into the assignment.

    (Blackboard Learn) Deep linking.gif

    1. Create your assignments in Perusall first.
    2. In your Blackboard Ultra course, click + Add content > Content Market, and click on the Perusall link without a "+".
    3. In the next screen, select Perusall. A window will pop up that will allow you to select a Perusall assignment to link.
      1. Under Assignments, click on the dropdown to select an assignment.
      2. Ensure that Import grading information to LMS is enabled, and click Link to this assignment.
    4. Return to your Blackboard Ultra course page to open the assignment, and it will take you directly into the Perusall assignment.

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