Publisher Content: Linking Pearson to Your Course in Blackboard Ultra

If you don’t see the link, add it to your Blackboard course.

1. Go to Blackboard.
2. Open your Blackboard Ultra course.
3. Browse to the location where you want the link to appear in your course.
4. Click the plus sign (+).
   
5. Click Content Market.
   
6. Click on the plus sign (+) in the box for Pearson Course Pairing.
   
7. Agree to any authorization requests.

Next, pair your courses.

To open MyLab and Mastering from your LMS course, link your accounts once. Then pair your courses and set up assignments in your MyLab or Mastering course.

If you’re a section instructor or teaching assistant, see Register as a section instructor or TA.

1. Click the Pearson Course Pairing link that you added in the previous step.

Prompted to get Started?

Click Get Started to link your accounts.

Prompted to Open Pearson?

Click Open Pearson. You might see another page telling you how to re-open your content. If MyLab and Mastering isn’t already open in another tab, return to your LMS course navigation and select the MyLab and Mastering or Access Pearson link again. In a partner integration, your link is something like BookShelf or Launch courseware.

2. Agree to any authorization requests.
3. Enter the username and password from your existing Pearson instructor account and click Link accounts. If you don’t have an account, select Create an account and follow the prompts. You can only link one LMS account to one Pearson account.
   
4. Click Continue.
   NOTE: If you’re asked to choose your product, select MyLab | Mastering. (For Revel, eText, or Live Response, go to Revel and Pearson eText for your LMS Help.) Your selection is permanent and can’t be undone.
5. Click Get Started on the Pearson Home page.
   
6. If you aren’t a validated instructor, click Get Started and follow the prompts to enter details about your role. Wait for a confirmation email.
   

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Account upgrade
If you have a valid Pearson account and get the message, “Account Upgrade Needed,” contact Pearson Support. Your account is active but needs a subscription to the MyLab and Mastering course.

Educator account needed
If you get the message, “To create courses you need a MyLab and Mastering educator account,” contact Pearson Support for assistance.

Next, pair your courses.

Open your Blackboard Ultra course to pair it with a new MyLab or Mastering course or a copy of a MyLab or Mastering course. You can’t pair MyLab or Mastering courses you created outside of Blackboard such as from the MyLab and Mastering website. However, you can pair copies of these existing MyLab or Mastering courses.

1. To create or copy a MyLab or Mastering course, choose one of the options available to you:

Search the catalog:

Pearson Seamless
After you find and select content, you’ll see options to copy another instructor’s content or any content you’ve used previously. You can’t pair or associate content you created outside your LMS course such as from the MyLab and Mastering or Revel website. However, you can add copies of this content.

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Copy a previous course you’ve taught with. (Learn what’s included in the copy.)

Enter a course ID to copy another instructor’s course. For a member section in a course group, enter the course ID of the MyLab coordinator course.

Select the course materials provided to you.

2. Select your course.
   
3. If prompted, choose a course type:
   • If you want students to enroll in the course, select Student-use Course.
   • If you don’t intend students to enroll in the course, select Instructor-use only. For managing multiple sections for a MyLab course, consider using a MyLab coordinator course in a course group. For MyLab IT courses paired with your LMS, you must copy an existing coordinator course.

   

4. Enter the course name and description. Use something specific for the name like your term and class section. This helps you quickly identify the course later.
5. Select the course dates.
   • Students who try to register before the start date get a course2 error.
   • Students can no longer open the Pearson course on the course end date (Eastern Time, US). Set a date after the last re-take opportunity for the final exam.
6. Select whether to allow other instructors to copy your course using your course ID. You can change this setting later.
7. Click Create course. You’ll see a confirmation message.
8. Wait for email confirmation your course is created. This might take up to 3 hours.
9. Close the browser tab, and return to your Blackboard Ultra course.

Next, set up assignments.

Optionally, you can add links that students use to open MyLab or Mastering assignments, course tools, such as Grades, or eText (also called eTextbook) from your Blackboard course. Learn how assignment, course tool, or eText links function.

Prerequisites: First pair your MyLab or Mastering and Blackboard courses and set up assignments in your MyLab or Mastering course.

1. Open your Blackboard Ultra course.
2. Browse to where you want the assignment to appear.
3. Click the plus sign (+).
   
4. Click Content Market.
   
5. From the Add links from list, choose whether to see assignments, course tools, or eText. Then scroll to see all the links or search for a specific link. Choose a column heading to sort.
   
6. Select one or more links and repeat for any option in Add links from.
   Adding eText Links?
   
7.  

   Click Add links at the bottom of the page.

   You’ll see the new links under Course Content.

   

Next, get students started.

Student payment: After you pair your LMS course with a MyLab or Mastering course, it’s simple for your students to open MyLab and Mastering. Students link accounts once. Depending on the course setup, they might need to purchase access. Options include pre-purchased access code, credit card, or PayPal. Free 14-day temporary access is available for some courses but isn’t supported for Codeless Inclusive Access integrations.

Multi-semester or sequential courses: For the second half of a multi-semester course, students might be prompted to link their LMS and Pearson accounts the first time they access the MyLab or Mastering course. Students must use the same Pearson username and password as the first part of the course. Otherwise, they might be prompted for payment again.

Course ID or invite links: You don’t need to give students course IDs or invite links. Communicate your course activity expectations and grade weighting with students. Let them know what’s required for your course, including purchase options. Also, like instructors, students can download diagnostics to provide to Pearson support.

Student View in the Access Pearson integration: To access the student view of the MyLab or Mastering course as an instructor, remove the LMS Student View filter, and then select a student assignment, course tool, or eText link. If you select the Access Pearson link from the Student View, you’ll get error code SOCKET_LS_T_03.

Student Resources

Share registration instructions and other resources with your students early, so they can immediately engage with course materials. We suggest copying and pasting these URLs into an email to students before classes start or your syllabus. Another option is to add these URLs as web links in a getting started section of your Blackboard course. See Blackboard Help for how to add links.

• Video: https://pearsoncustomersuccess.co/d1d
• PDF: https://pearsoncustomersuccess.co/3e132
• Student Help: https://help.pearsoncmg.com/integration/cg/student/

Sync grades one-way from your MyLab or Mastering course to your Blackboard Learn Ultra course. Learn how grade sync works.

Prepare for grade sync in your MyLab or Mastering course

1. Access the Pearson Home page and click Open Pearson.
2. Click Open MyLab & Mastering.
3. In your MyLab and Mastering course, turn on any grade settings and create assignments that meet the guidelines below. If needed, set availability/due dates and choose grade sync settings.Guidelines: To avoid problems opening MyLab and Mastering courses and syncing grades, make sure names, including course and assignment names, and settings don’t have UTF-8 and these special characters: \ / ” * < > + = | , % ! &Depending on your MyLab and Mastering platform, there are different ways to prepare for grade sync.
   Mastering
   See Mastering Help for grade sync considerations.
   MyLab
   See MyLab Help for how to set up grade sync from your MyLab course and choose how to sync scores.
   MyLab IT and World Languages
   See MyLab Help for how to set up grade sync from your MyLab course and choose how to sync scores.
   

Next, return to your Blackboard Learn Ultra course to set up grade sync.

Set up grade sync from your Blackboard course

Prerequisite: To avoid problems opening your MyLab or Mastering course and syncing grades, make sure names and settings in your LMS course don’t have UTF-8 and these special characters: \ / ” * < > + = | , % ! &

1. Access the Pearson Home page and click Open Pearson.
2. Select Grade Sync.
   
3. To automatically sync grades as they become available, select On for Automatic Grade Sync. This doesn’t sync past grades. (If Off is selected, MyLab and Mastering grades only sync to your LMS when you select Sync Grades Now.)Regardless of whether automatic grade sync is turned on, use Sync Grades Now anytime to manually sync all existing grades, including grades available before you turned auto sync on.
4. Make selections in the Items to Sync list. You might need to wait up to 15 minutes after you set up grade sync to see these items.
   
5. Click Sync Grades Now to create links for any assignments and to initially populate the Blackboard Gradebook.

Tips for using assignment links

• Assignment links work in a new Blackboard course paired with a new MLM course if you copy the same Pearson course paired with the original Blackboard course.
• Assignment links are automatically available to students unless you change their publish status in your LMS course.
• Assignment links for offline assignments or activities aren’t supported.
• To see the links for practice and reading Mastering assignments, make sure they have due dates, and then choose the Assignments option for grade sync. Select the practice and reading assignments and then sync grades. The links are now visible and associated grades show up as dashes in the Gradebook.