Blackboard Integrations
This article provides an overview of the tools integrated with the Syracuse University Blackboard System with information about how to find support for each.Integrations are installed and maintained by Online Learning Services with support from the Academic Applications and Platforms group.
ITS Licensed or Supported Integrations
Some integrations are licensed or supported by ITS. Online Learning Services supports users in the use of these tools and administrates them in partnership with Academic Applications and Platforms. For help with these tools please contact visit the ITS Service Center, email help@syr.edu, or call 315-443-2677.
Class Collaborate (discontinued 06/2024)
Partnership Integrations
These integrations are installed in the Blackboard system in a partnership with other units on campus. ITS makes them available in Blackboard for the convenience of the campus community, but primary support for the tool lives with the unit that requested their installation. Contact information for support of each tool is available by following the link.
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Vendor and Courtesy Integrations
Some integrations are installed at the request of campus users to provide easier access to a tool for instructors or students, to provide roster information to a tool, or integrate with the Blackboard Gradebook including a variety of publisher and textbook tools. Online Learning Services installs and maintains these integrations to the best of their ability, but these tools are unsupported by ITS. For support, the user should contact the vendor directly. Some configuration details are provided below on the status and degree of integration that the vendor may need to know to support tool users.
Vendor or Tool Name | Configuration Status | Placement |
|---|---|---|
Accepi | LTI 1.3 globally | Deep linking content tool |
Bartleby | LTI 1.3 | None |
Cengage | Partner Cloud — LTI 1.3 | Course tool |
Credo Learning Tools | LTI 1.1 | None |
Docuseek | LTI 1.1 per link | None |
Elsevier | LTI 1.1 globally | None |
GoPeer | LTI 1.3 | None |
Great River | LTI 1.3 | Course content tool |
Hypothes.is | LTI 1.1 per link | None |
Infosec Learning | LTI 1.1 globally | None |
Knight Lab | LTI 1.1 per link | None |
Lumen Learning | LTI 1.1 globally | None |
Macmillan | Partner Cloud Integration | Partner Content, Content Market |
McGraw Hill ALEKS Chemistry | LTI 1.1 per link | Course tool |
McGraw-Hill Connect | LTI 1.3 | Deep Linking content tool |
Nature4Climate | LTI 1.1 per link | None |
New York Times | LTI 1.1 per link | None |
Norton — ncia.wwnorton.com | LTI 1.1 | None |
Norton — digtial.wwnorton.com | LTI 1.1 | None |
Oxford Learning Link | LTI 1.1 globally | None |
Pearson Access | LTI 1.3 | Course tool, Deep Linking content tool |
Perusall | LTI 1.1 globally | None |
Piazza | LTI 1.1 per link | None |
Practice Labs | LTI 1.1 | Course content tool |
RedShelf | LTI 1.1 globally | Course tool |
SAGE Vantage | LTI 1.3 | Deep Linking content tool |
Science Toolkit | Building Block | Course tool |
Spotify | LTI 1.1 per link | None |
LTI 1.1 globally | None | |
Tevera | LTI 1.1 per link | None |
Visible Body | LTI 1.1 globally and per link | None |
Vista | LTI 1.1 per link | None |
Wiley | LTI 1.1 globally | Deep linking content tool, Course tool |
zyBooks | LTI 1.1 globally | None |
Integrating Unsupported Tools
Syracuse University's Blackboard system is configured to allow instructors to add unsupported tools if the vendor provides an LTI Integration. Ultra Course Instructors should follow Blackboard's instructions to Original course instructors should follow the instructions for
Please note that instructors needing support for tools integrated with this method should consult the vendor. ITS doesn't provide support for the use of tools added to Blackboard in this fashion.