Blackboard Ultra + Suitable LTI Guide for Instructors

• Shortcut to Section 1: Adding Content from Suitable to the Course + Gradebook
• Shortcut to Section 2: Syncing your Roster and Grades
• Shortcut to Section 3: Removing Content

Section 1: Adding Content from Suitable to the Course + Gradebook

 

1. Within your Blackboard homepage, navigate to the course that you would like to use the Suitable Course Builder tool in.

2. Under the Content tab, click on the Plus sign above your existing content.

3. To access the Course Builder, select 'Content Market'.

4. In the Content Market, select your Course Builder. It will typically be named 'School' Course Builder.

This will then take you to Suitable to select which activities should be made a part of your course.

5. Within the Suitable Course Builder, you have varying options for searching for and filtering the activity list.

You can search for content on this page if you know the specific activity you are looking to bring in, or filter the list according to activity type. The filtering options are Tasks, Events, Achievements, Point Totals, or Experience Sets.

The grading schema for these activity types are listed below:

• Tasks; Events: Complete or Incomplete
• Achievements; Point Totals; Experience Sets: Shows student progression; for example, if an assignment is worth 100 points and student has completed 50% of one of the listed activity types, their grade in the gradebook would be 50. As a student progresses, the grade will update.

Note that all activities must be created in Suitable first in order for you to be able to link them to your course in Blackboard. If what you are looking for does not yet exist, sign in at app.suitable.co and add the activity.

6. To add activities, simply click on the activity you are interested in adding.

7. Once you have selected all of the activities that you'd like to add for now, click on the blue 'Sync Content to Course' button at the top to migrate the activities to your course in Blackboard.

8. You will receive a confirmation message that the content was added to your course.

9. Return back to your Blackboard Ultra page, close the Content Market, and refresh the page to see your new content at the top.

10. You can also view the new content within your course's Gradebook.

Section 2: Syncing your Roster and Grades

This step should be completed whenever you want the data in your gradebook to be refreshed for all students in the course.

1. Within the Content section of your course, click the Plus button and choose 'Content Market'.

2. Locate your Course Builder and click into the tool. You will be taken to the course builder within Suitable.

3. At the top of the page, click the 'Sync Grades and Roster' button.

4. You will receive an email once the sync has successfully completed.

Section 3: Removing Content

1. If you need to remove content from your course after it has been synced from Suitable, locate the content under the Content tab of your course.

2. Select the three dots to the side of the content, and choose 'Delete'.

3. Confirm that you would like to delete this piece of content.

This will also remove the content from your Gradebook.