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Add Packback to Your Blackboard Ultra Course

Packback is a platform that helps improve students’ critical thinking through AI-powered inquiry-based learning communities and is integrated into ACC’s Blackboard Learning Management System.  To add Packback to your Blackboard Ultra Course, follow the steps detailed below.

  1. From any Add Content icon (+) in Course Content, select Content Market.Course Content page, with Add Content icon indicated by arrow and Content Market in pop-up menu indicated by outline box and arrow.
  2. In the Content Market page, scroll down and locate Packback. Click the Add Content (+) icon to add the tool link to the Course Content page.
    Content Market page with Packback tool framed in red and arrow indicating the Add Content icon.
  3. The Packback tool link is now added to Course Content.  The newly created link will default to “Hidden from students”, so edit the visibility as needed.  To change the link name and/or add a text description, click the More Options icon (…) and select Edit.  To move the link to a different location in Course Content, click and hold the Move icon (six dots) and drag the link to the desired location.
    Course Content page, with Packback tool link added.  Visibility menu, More Options, and Move icons indicated by arrows and pop-up menu Edit option framed by outline box and indicated by arrow.
  4. Review the Packback Resource Guide to follow the steps for connecting your course to a community, creating content, and setting up the gradebook.  The guide also features links to other useful articles for implementing Packback within your course.

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