Connecting Riipen with Blackboard through LTI Advantage makes it simple for learners to move seamlessly from a Blackboard course to the linked Riipen experience.
General
Roster Sync
Roster syncs are used to synchronize the roster from your LMS course into your Riipen experience. Any learners that have added to your LMS course will be added to your Riipen experience (under the Learners tab), and any that have unenrolled will be removed from the experience.
Grade Sync
Educators have the opportunity to manage how grade book columns in the LMS are created. Educators can allow Riipen to automatically create LMS grade book columns for each scored Riipen entity such as surveys, milestones, or final deliverables, or they can manually create deep links to individual assignments in the LMS. Once scores on Riipen become finalized, they are released back to the LMS automatically.
Educators can also choose to sync the total score rather than individual scores back to the LMS grade book. A learner’s total score is each individual entity's score summed.
Deep Links
Deep Linking is a method that allows for direct linking to items in your Riipen experience such as surveys, milestones, etc to a grade book column, or can be used to simply guide users to specific points within Riipen without impacting learners' grades.
Some educators prefer to use deep links over auto-generated grade book columns in order to have more control of how learners access content in Riipen. Deep links may also be useful if you prefer to stagger the visibility of assignments within your LMS.
How to
Enable the Blackboard LTI Advantage integration
After Ripen has been installed by your administrator, educators can follow these steps to set up your Blackboard-linked Riipen experience.
Ensure your experience within Riipen already exists
If you are using Blackboard Learn:
In your Blackboard course, navigate to a Content Area, click "Tools" in the left navigation bar
If you are using Blackboard Ultra:
In your Blackboard course, in your Course Content area, click the "+ Add content" > "Content Market" Locate Riipen, and click on the "+" to add it the course content area.
Refresh the page, and click on "Riipen". You will be redirected to Riipen
Find your experience you would like to link to your Blackboard course to and click it
Click the "Settings" tab
Click the "Integrations" tab in the "Advanced" tab group
Click "LTI Advantage" in the "Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI)" group
Click "Create link"
Synchronize rosters
Navigate to your experience.
Click the "Settings" tab.
Select the "Integrations" tab.
Select the "Blackboard LTI Advantage" option under the data source section.
Click "Synchronize roster"
Synchronizing the roster happens in the background and may take a few minutes to complete.
Set up grade synchronization
Navigate to your experience.
Click the "Settings" tab.
Select the "Scoring" tab.
Click "Edit" for the "Scoring settings" group
Enable "Passback score to integrated LMS assignment as grade"
Enable "Create LMS assignments for scored tasks"
Click "Save"
Create a graded deep link
Follow these steps to create graded deep links in your Blackboard course.
If you are using Blackboard Learn:
In your Blackboard Learn course, navigate to a Content Area, ensure Edit mode is enabled, and click "Build Content"
Click "Riipen Deep Link"
Select "Riipen"
Click an item to link
Ensure that "Import grading information to LMS" is enabled, and click "Link to this assignment"
If you are using Blackboard Ultra:
In your Blackboard Ultra course, click "+ Add content" > "Content Market"
Click on the "Riipen" link without a "+".
In the next screen, select "Riipen"
Click an item to link
Ensure that "Import grading information to LMS" is enabled, and click "Link to this assignment"
Create an ungraded deep link
If you'd like to create deep links to anywhere in your Riipen experience but do not want to have a grade associated with it in your Blackboard grade book, follow the same steps for created a graded deep link, except ensure that "Import grading information to LMS" is disabled.
Disable the Blackboard LTI Advantage integration
Navigate to your experience.
Click the "Settings" tab.
Select the "Integrations" tab.
Click "LTI Advantage" in the "Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI)" group
Click on the "Delete" button to remove the integration.