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Add Links in Brightspace to WebAssign Activities and Resources

After setting up your WebAssign course, create links from Brightspace® to activities or other content in WebAssign. Linked graded activities are included in the Brightspace gradebook unless you choose to exclude them.

This feature is not available to instructors using the old Brightspace integration.
Note Category scores and overall course scores can not be synced to Brightspace.

Before adding links to WebAssign activities, make sure your WebAssign course is set up the way you want it.

  • Add and organize the assigned activities and course materials for your WebAssign course.
  • Configure assignment settings such as grading, attempts, feedback, time limits, due dates, point values, and grade categories.
Best Practice Use consistent assignment settings and a consistent schedule for due dates and times.
Prerequisites
Integrate WebAssign With Your Brightspace Course

The following steps for an LTI 1.0 integration. For LTI Advantage instructions, see Brightspace LTI Advantage.

Prerequisites
Integrate WebAssign With Your Brightspace Course

Links created in this way are sometimes called deep links because they are not just web links but allow data to be exchanged between Brightspace and WebAssign.

  1. Open your Brightspace course.
  2. Open the Course Builder tool.

    In the Content tab, click Related Tools > Course Builder.

  3. Drag New Cengage Learning from Add Content to your module.

    Alternatively, click New Cengage Learning and select your module.

  4. Select a location to add your new links.
  5. Click Select Content and select activities to include in your class.
    Note Selecting a group of activities does not select all activities in the group. You must select each activity individually.

    Expand or collapse the course outline if needed.

    A selected activity is labeled "This activity is imported in your LMS" and a warning message says "You are about to re-import already existing assignments."

    Graded activities that have already been added are marked This activity is imported in your LMS. To avoid duplicate activity links and gradebook columns, do not import the same activity twice.

    Due dates set in your WebAssign course are synced to Brightspace. If your school uses a Brightspace Partner integration, available dates are also synced to Brightspace.

    Date changes in your WebAssign course overwrite dates set in your Brightspace course. For consistency, make sure your WebAssign and Brightspace courses are set to the same time zone.

    If needed, change gradebook syncing for specific activities.

    By default, when you include a graded activity it is added to the Brightspace gradebook.

    To remove an activity from the gradebook, clear Add to Gradebook.

    To sync an activity to the gradebook without creating an activity link, first select Add to Gradebook and then clear the Add to Course checkbox on the left.

  6. Click Continue.

The content page displays all the links you have added to your WebAssign course and activities.

If needed, you can reorganize the links in Brightspace.