Publish to BlackBoard

You may upload your lessons to BlackBoard as SCORM 2004 R3 packages. However, the best solution is to install the iSpring building block to BlackBoard and then use it to import iSpring content.

Publishing content to BlackBoard using the iSpring building block takes three stages:

1. Install the iSpring building block for BlackBoard (you need to do it only once)
2. Publish your content for BlackBoard using the iSpring product.
3. Import your content to BlackBoard.

Installing the iSpring building block for BlackBoard

1. Download the iSpring building block for BlackBoard.
2. Log in to your BlackBoard as an administrator.
3. Open the System Admin tab.
   
4. Go to Building Blocks/Installed Tools.
5. Click the Upload Building Blocks button.
6. Click the Browse button and navigate to the downloaded iSpring_blackboard.war.
7. Click the Submit button.

"iSpring Plugin" will be added to the list of installed building blocks. Now that you have installed it, you have to enable it.

8.  Find the "iSpring Plugin" in the list.

9.  Choose available from both drop-down menus to activate it.

Publishing to BlackBoard

To publish your presentation to BlackBoard:

1. Click the Publish button on the iSpring Presenter/iSpring QuizMaker panel.
2. Open the LMS tab
3. Open the Learning Course tab
4. Select BlackBoard 9.x in the Course type drop-down menu.
   iSpring Pro publishing window:
   
   iSpring QuizMaker publishing window:
   
5. Tweak your course parameters (see the table below).
   

   Note: if you publish a selected range of slides, iSpring will process only those quizzes, which are added to the selected slides.

6. Click the Publish button.
   iSpring Pro will generate a zipped package, ready for publishing to BlackBoard.

Importing your presentation to BlackBoard

Now that you have generated a zipped package, you can upload it to BlackBoard:

1. On the Content page in BlackBoard, move the mouse over the More button and click the Add iSpring Content button.
   

2. Click the Browse for Local File button and choose the package you have published with iSpring.

3.  Click the Submit button

4.  Edit properties of the content item, if necessary.


Properties
Content Information
Title	Type your lesson name here.
Description	Type a brief description of your lesson here.
Content Items
Title	Type a name for a content item here.
Add to grade book	Register the score of an individual content item in the grade book.
Weight	Specify weight of a given content item in the lesson.
Total mark
Add total mark to grade book	Select this checkbox, if you want to add a total mark of the lesson to the grade book.
Percentage mark	Select this radio button, if you prefer percentage to total score.
Passing percent	Specify how many percents a student should score to complete the lesson.
Score mark	Select this radio button, if you prefer total score to percentage.
Max score	Specify the maximum number of points a student can earn in this lesson.
Passing score	Specify how many points a student should score to complete this lesson.
Content options
Limit lesson duration	Specify a period of time a student can study the lesson.
Display after	Specify the date and time, after which the lesson becomes available.
Display until	Specify the date and time, until which the lesson is available.
Make content visible	Select this checkbox, to let students see this lesson.
Track number of views	Select this checkbox, if you want the system to register how many times a given lesson has been viewed.
Grade first attempt only	Select this checkbox, if you want to rate only the first attempt of your students to complete this lesson. For example, if a lesson includes several quizzes, and a student completes only the first quiz at first, the system will rate the first quiz. Next time the student views this lesson and repeats the first quiz, his/her new results will be ignored. The system will register only results of the next quizzes.

5.  Click the Submit button to apply your changes.

6. Your package will be uploaded to BlackBoard and will appear in the Content list.