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Adding the Echo360 Tool Link to Blackboard Courses

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In order for students to access Echo360 content, an Instructor or an Admin must add an Echo360 content link to the course. 

Who can do this? A Blackboard Admin can do this for all courses, or an Instructor can do this for their own courses.

Handy Tip: Once your Course Content link exists in your Blackboard course, you can add a shortcut to the link in the left-navigation. This may be more convenient than requiring students/instructors to click Content then click the Echo360 link.

To add the Echo360 LTI tool link to courses

  1. Log in to Blackboard as an administrator OR instructor.
  2. Navigate to a course.
  3. Click Content from the Course navigation in the left panel. 
  4. Click Build Content, to open the content menu, then select the Echo360 LTI tool (it should be clearly named).
    Blackboard course content showing Build Content menu open and Echo LTI tool identified
  5. In the Create content page, enter a Name that makes it clear this is the link for Echo360 class content.
    This Name will be the text of the link that users will click to access their Echo360 content.
  6. You may also want to add a Description, to make it clear this is the link to Echo360 class recordings and other related content. This is optional.
    Add content page with Link name added and description field shown for steps as described
  7. In the Grading Options section of the create content form, enter 100 for Points Possible (Echo360 exports analytics as percentages).
  8. Complete the other options at your discretion.
    Note that setting Visible to Students as "No" means that you can configure the link but students will not see it until you set this to "Yes".
    Grading Options section of create content form with options as described
  9. When finished, click Submit. The link should now appear (with the given name) in the Content page.
    Course Content page in Blackboard showing link to Echo360

You (Admin or Instructor) can now click the link and configure it using the below instructions. BE ADVISED that until the target Echo360 section is selected, students will see a message indicating that the section has not yet been activated.

Completing the Blackboard Link into Echo360

Below are quick instructions for configuring the course link into Echo360.  If you need more detailed instructions, see Linking LMS Courses to Echo360 Sections (Class List) or Linking LMS Courses to Individual Classes/Classrooms. 

Don't see the selection lists shown below? If your institution is configured for Simplified Provisioning, your Echo360 section MAY be created for you on pass-through. See Simplified Course Provisioning Options for Instructors as well as Instructor How To's for Simplified Course Provisioning.

  1. Click the link to Echo360 you just created.
  2. Use the drop-down list(s) to select the Echo360 section you want to link to. You may have only a Section drop-down list to choose from, or you may have Term, Course, and Section lists as shown below.
    Connect to Echo360 content page with term and course and section selection boxes available as described
  3. Select Link to the Section Home to link students directly to the section class list.
    OR
    Select Link to a Classroom to link students directly into a Class in the section, then select which class. 
    Link to echo360 section page with term and course and section selected with Link to content button identified for steps as described
  4. Click LINK CONTENT to complete the configuration.

Once you link through, you are automatically enrolled as an instructor in the target section. Students, when they pass through the established link, are automatically enrolled into the target section as students. The same goes for Teaching Assistants, who are added to the Echo360 section with that role.