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First Day™ Blackboard Ultra Course Set-up: McGraw-Hill Content

Post author By Mario Menendez
Post date May 19, 2025

As an instructor for a First Day/Inclusive Access course, you will need to add the First Day Course Materials (FDA) tool link in your Blackboard Ultra Course Content area so that students can choose to opt-out of the program during the designated period of time.

McGraw-Hill specific First Day course materials such as the eBook will also be accessed by the students through the FDA tool link. Courseware associated with the eBook, including assignments, quizzes, and other assessments will be accessed by the student through individual links that the instructor will create in the Course Content area using the McGraw-Hill Higher Education tools in the Content Market.

Adding the First Day Course Materials Link

From the Course Content page, click on an Add Content (+) icon and from the drop-down menu, select Content Market.

2. In the Content Market page, scroll down and locate First Day Course Materials. Click the Add Content (+) icon to add the tool link to the Course Content page.

3. Newly added items to the Course Content page automatically default to “Hidden from students”. Click the arrow next to the visibility setting to make the link available to student users. Select the More Options icon (…) to edit the link name, should you want to change “First Day Course Materials” to a custom title.

Linking McGraw-Hill Courseware

Instructor support for linking your designated McGraw-Hill platform (Connect, GO, or SIMnet) to your Blackboard course:

Additional instructor and student support for McGraw-Hill courseware can be found here.

Additional instructor and student support regarding First Day Inclusive Access can be found at Barnes & Noble’s customer care website.

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First Day™ Blackboard Ultra Course Set-up: Cengage Content

Post author By Mario Menendez
Post date May 19, 2025

Cengage-specific First Day course materials such as the eBook and associated courseware, including assignments, quizzes, and other assessments will be accessed by the student through a Course Content link(s) that you will add separately.

Adding the First Day Course Materials Link

From the Course Content page, click on an Add Content (+) icon and from the drop-down menu, select Content Market.

2. In the Content Market page, scroll down and locate First Day Course Materials. Click the Add Content (+) icon to add the tool link to the Course Content page.

Linking Cengage Courseware

Instructor support for linking your designated Cengage platform to your Blackboard course:

Instructor support for Cengage course integration in Blackboard Ultra can be found in this ACC-specific resource page.

Student support for accessing First Day Cengage materials can be found at this resource page.

Additional instructor and student support regarding First Day Inclusive Access can be found at Barnes & Noble’s customer care website.

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First Day™ Blackboard Ultra Course Set-up: Macmillan Content

Post author By Mario Menendez
Post date May 19, 2025

If an instructor intends to use solely the Macmillan eBook, students will use the FDA tool link to view the content as well as opting-out of the book fee should they decide to drop the course.

If instead the instructor intends to utilize Macmillan courseware through the Achieve platform, then students will use the FDA link solely to opt out of the Macmillan resources fee should they decide to drop the course. Students will then access Macmillan resources including the eBook and all associated courseware through specific links the instructor will create in the Course Content area using the Macmillan LTI Advantage Course Tools in the Content Market.

Adding the First Day Course Materials Link

From the Course Content page, click on an Add Content (+) icon and from the drop-down menu, select Content Market.

2. In the Content Market page, scroll down and locate First Day Course Materials. Click the Add Content (+) icon to add the tool link to the Course Content page.

Linking Macmillan Courseware

Instructor support for linking Macmillan Achieve courseware to your Blackboard course:

Additional instructor and student support for Macmillan courseware can be found here.

Additional instructor and student support regarding First Day Inclusive Access can be found at Barnes & Noble’s customer care website.

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First Day™ Blackboard Ultra Course Set-up: Pearson Content

Post author By Mario Menendez
Post date May 19, 2025

Pearson-specific First Day course materials such as the eBook and associated courseware, including assignments, quizzes, and other assessments will also be accessed by the students through the FDA tool link.

Adding the First Day Course Materials Link

From the Course Content page, click on an Add Content (+) icon and from the drop-down menu, select Content Market.

2. In the Content Market page, scroll down and locate First Day Course Materials. Click the Add Content (+) icon to add the tool link to the Course Content page.

Linking Pearson Courseware

Instructor support for linking your designated Pearson platform to your Blackboard course:

Additional instructor and student support for Pearson courseware can be found here.

Additional instructor and student support regarding First Day Inclusive Access can be found at Barnes & Noble’s customer care website.

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Blackboard Ultra: How to Copy Content

Post author By Mario Menendez
Post date May 7, 2025

Initiating the Copy Process

Before copying content to an empty Blackboard Ultra course, close the course to student users. A closed course will prevent past due dates for copied Blackboard graded content (tests, assignments, journals, discussion board forums) from appearing in the Activity Stream of the students enrolled in the current course. A closed course allows you to update all availability and due dates first, then open the course to the current student roster.

To close a course, click Course Settings in the top right of the course page.

2. From the Course Settings page, select Closed to make the course inaccessible to student users. Select Open when you have updated the content and are ready for student users to access the course.

Copying an Entire Course

On the Course Content page, click the More options icon (…) and from the drop-down menu, select Copy Items.

2. From the Copy Items page, a list of your courses appears. Only courses you are enrolled as an instructor or Course Builder will display in this list. In addition, courses you have hidden from your view in Blackboard Ultra Navigation (Courses) will not appear in the Copy Items list. If you do not see the course you would like to copy, use the search bar and type the name or synonym number and the list will display all matches. By default, the list will show only 10 courses per page. Expand the number of courses displayed from the items per page drop-down menu or use the arrows to navigate to another page.

3. Select the checkbox to the left of the course to copy over all its contents. The selected course will add to the right of the Copy Items page. If you do not want to copy the selection, click the X icon to remove it. Once you have selected the desired course, click Start Copy to initiate the copying. You do not need to stay in the course while the copy is in process.

Copying Individual Course Items

Individual items or folders from another course can be copied instead of the course in its entirety. Note: If you choose to copy individual folders or items, that content will be automatically set to “Hidden from students” when added to the Course Content page.

On the Course Content page, click the More options icon (…) and from the drop-down menu, select Copy Items. The copied items will be added below any existing items already in the Course Content page.

2. However, if you would prefer to copy an item or folder to a specific place w/in your Course Content page, click on an Add Content (+) icon and from the drop-down menu, select Copy Content.

3. In either instance, you will be redirected to the Copy Items page. To select individual folders or items from a course, click the arrow to the right of the course name to access the available contents within.

4. Select the checkbox(es) for the folder(s) you would like to copy. If you would prefer to select individual content within a folder, click the arrow to the right of the folder name. Your selections will add to the right of the Copy Items page. If you do not want to copy a selection, click the X icon to remove it.

5. Once you have decided on the selections, click Start Copy to initiate the copying. You do not need to stay in the course while the copy is in process.

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Downloading Class Chat Transcripts

Post author By Mario Menendez
Post date February 13, 2025

NOTE: Instructors using Class for the first time, please contact an Educational Technologist to verify your system role (Instructor) in the user list. As of Monday, July 29th, 2024, Class will only be accessible via Class for Web. This means that the downloadable Windows and Mac versions of the Class application will no longer be available after that date. Instructors and learners will access Class using a supported browser of their choice.

Instructor users can download/export previous Class session chat transcripts as Comma-separated Values (CSV) files. Transcript files only include conversations that occur in the public chat. Private chat conversations between a student user and instructor are not included in the export file, but can be acquired upon request through Class support (Class session link & session date must be provided).

To download a Class chat transcript:

Sign in to your ACC Class account.
Select Schedule.
From the schedule calendar, locate the desired Class session and select it.
Select the ellipses icon (…) in the top right and click Download Chat.
Select the desired date range. Multiple days of chat conversations will be consolidated into a single CSV export file. Likewise, multiple sessions in a single day will be consolidated into a single CSV export file. Once the date range is determined, click Export. The file will download to your device’s designated folder or desktop.

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Upload a Caption File to a Panopto Video

Post author By Mario Menendez
Post date October 8, 2024

To upload an existing caption file (.srt, .ashx, .vtt, .txt, and .dxfp files only) to a Panopto video:

Log into your Panopto account, using your EID, password, and MFA (multi-factor authorization) for access.
Navigate to the video you will be captioning, hover over it in the Panopto library, and select the Settings button.
Click on the Captions tab in the left-hand navigation.
If captions have already been generated for the video, that file must be deleted before a new one can be manually uploaded. To delete the existing file, click on the arrow under Available Captions and select Delete Captions.
Once the existing captions file has been deleted, click Choose File, then locate and select the captions file on your device to upload. Select Captions are based on the edited session if the captions you are uploading are based on the session as it is edited in Panopto. Click Upload Captions to complete the action.
Depending on the length of the video and the corresponding captions file, it may take a few minutes for the file to be processed into the video. Refresh your browser and look for the CC icon in the video thumbnail image, indicating that captions are present.

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Add a Video Link with Panopto

Post author By Mario Menendez
Post date October 8, 2024

Open the course and select a content area from your course menu.

In the content area, click on the Build Content tab and select Panopto Video Link / Embed Tool.
You will be redirected to the Panapto provisioned folder for this course. Select your video and click Insert.

The selected video is now added to the content area as a link (the link name is the video name by default). To change the link name, add a text description, and/or edit the availability, click the options menu icon next to the link name and select Edit.

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Enable Automatic Import of Zoom Meeting Recordings to Panopto

Post author By Mario Menendez
Post date July 7, 2023

Panopto is an enterprise video hosting platform, providing a cloud-based service to centrally manage your recorded videos, lectures, and presentations. As a Panopto user, you can choose to automatically import Zoom Meeting cloud recordings to your Panopto account.

NOTE: The automatic import feature does not apply to Zoom Meeting recordings saved to a user’s local device.

Log into your Panopto account, using your EID, password, and MFA (multi-factor authorization) for access.
In your Panopto home page, click on your user icon (A) and from the pop-up window select User Settings (B).
From the User Settings window, under Meeting Import Settings, check ACC Zoom (Zoom) (A) and click Update (B) to enable the automatic import option.
Now that the automatic import option is enabled, once a new Zoom Meeting cloud recording is made, the imported file is saved to Meeting Recordings (a subfolder of My Folder in your Panopto account).

NOTE: Enabling the automatic import setting will only take effect for Zoom Meeting cloud recordings made after the settings change. Cloud recordings made prior to the adjustment will not automatically import to your Panopto account retroactively.

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Add Packback to Your Blackboard Course

Post author By Mario Menendez
Post date June 28, 2023

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 Course, follow the steps detailed below.

From your Blackboard course menu, click the Add Menu Item icon (A) and from the drop-down menu, select Tool Link (B).
In the Add Tool Link inset window, add a name for the link (“Packback”, for example, so students can easily locate the link) (A). From the Type drop-down list, select Packback (B). Check Available to Users so the link is visible to students, then click Submit (C).
The Packback tool link is now visible in your course menu. Click on the link to launch the tool in a new browser tab.
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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