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Integrate WebAssign With Your LMS Course

Note If your institution uses the old WebAssign-LMS integration, see Set Up LMS Integration (Old).

Your LMS administrator must have set up the Cengage tool in LMS.

With this integration:

  • You and your students access your WebAssign courses from LMS.
Best Practice To help your students, use clear and consistent naming for your courses and sections in both LMS and WebAssign. This is especially important if you integrate more than one WebAssign section from the same LMS course.

How do I know if I'm using this integration?

Your Cengage tool will be in a different location depending on which integration you are using.

These instructions are for an older version of the integration which uses a Cengage navigation item in your course navigation. If you have a Cengage navigation item that works, you are using this integration.

Single-Section CoursesGeneral Procedure

  1. Create your course in LMS.
  2. Choose one of the following:
  3. In your WebAssign course, assign the activities you want to use.
  4. Link to WebAssign Activities and Resources

Multisection Courses Using WebAssign Course Templates and Sections

  1. Sign in to Cengage and create your WebAssign course template and sections.
    1. Create your course template.
    2. In your course template, assign the activities you want to use.
    3. From your course template, create your course sections and set each section's information, including section name, meeting time, and instructors or TAs.
  2. Create your first LMS course section and link it to one of your WebAssign course sections.
    1. Integrate an Existing WebAssign Course With LMS
    2. Add Links in LMS to WebAssign Activities and Resources
    3. Link to WebAssign Activities and Resources
  3. Create additional LMS sections that link to each of your other WebAssign sections.

Multisection Courses (Not Using Course Templates)

  1. Create your first WebAssign course section and assign the activities you want to use.
  2. Create your first LMS course section and link it to your first WebAssign section.
    1. Integrate an Existing WebAssign Course With LMS
    2. Add Links in LMS to WebAssign Activities and Resources
    3. Link to WebAssign Activities and Resources
  3. Copy Your WebAssign-Integrated Course in LMS to create additional LMS sections that link to new copies of your first WebAssign section.

Multisection Courses

LMS sections must be created and linked before you begin integrating WebAssign courses. LMS permits section linking when enabled by your school or district administrator.

Each LMS section will be linked to a WebAssign course.

  1. Create your multisection LMS course.
  2. Link your first LMS section to a new WebAssign course.
    1. Create a New LMS-Integrated WebAssign Course
    2. Add Links in LMS to WebAssign Activities and Resources
  3. Set up your WebAssign course.

    Finish setting up your course before copying it over to the rest of your LMS sections, so you only have to make these changes once.

  4. In your LMS section, click the Cengage link you just created.
    Cengage opens in a new tab.
  5. In LMS, open the next section and click the Cengage link.
    The Cengage course linking page opens in a new tab.
  6. Link the LMS section to a copy of your WebAssign course.
    1. Copy a WebAssign Course to a New LMS Course
    2. Add Links in LMS to WebAssign Activities and Resources
  7. Repeat this process for each section in your LMS course.