Publisher Content and Add-Ons: Blackboard Learn
Support for these add-ons is provided by the companies that created them.
Blackboard Integrations
Below you will find a list of the current Blackboard integrations, both third-party and contracted.
| Name | Description | Support |
|---|---|---|
| Add/Modify Enrollments | Allows you to manually add and remove users from your course. You may only remove users that have been manually added by you or someone else. | Ohio University Add Modify Enrollments in Blackboard |
| Alexander Street | Alexander Street is an electronic academic database publisher of streaming video, audio, and text library databases that promote research, teaching, and learning across disciplines. | Alexander Street Resource Center |
| Cengage | Provider of digital learning content and online textbooks. | Cengage Support Services |
| Cirrus by Paradigm | Provider of cloud-based learning content in the areas of Computer Technology, Health Careers, Business Technology, and Career Development. | Paradigm Support |
| Course Merge | Allows instructors to combine course sections. | Ohio University Course Merge in Blackboard |
| Create a Test Course | Allows users to create a test course within the system. | Ohio University Create a Test Course in Blackboard Ultra |
| DawnSignDigital | This tool is used to access the DawnSignDigital Signing Naturally learning content. | DawnSignPress Contact Us |
| Ebscohost | Allows for the embedding of library content within a Blackboard course. | |
| Elsevier Evolve | Evolve is an online portal for healthcare educators and students to access and purchase all of their Elsevier digital teaching & learning materials. | Elsevier Support Center |
| ExamSoft | Computer-based assessment software that collects assessment data and generates easy-to-apply reports to help educators improve course and student performance. | ExamSoft User Guide |
| Flatworld Knowledge | Publisher of college-level textbooks and education supplements. | Flatworld Support |
| GivePulse | Manage volunteers, memberships, events, fundraisers, hierarchies, and community engagement opportunities. Enables you to list your opportunities, attract volunteers and donors and manage all community engagement in one place. | GivePulse Support |
| GoReact | An interactive cloud-based platform for feedback, grading, and critiquing of student video assignments. | GoReact Help |
| Hawkes Learning | Educational courseware platform providing instructional content and mastery-based learning to enhance student success. | Hawkes Learning Support Center |
| H5P | Create and share rich html5 content and applications inside of Blackboard. Note: H5P is under limited pilot for Fall 2021-22. | H5P Documentation |
| Labster | 200+ virtual labs (simulations) for universities and high schools that students can complete online. | Labster Help |
| Lumen Learning | Provider of digital courseware, course materials, and community-focused professional development for educators. | Lumen Learning Support |
| Macmillan | Textbooks, content, and resources for Higher Education. | Macmillan Contact Us |
| McGraw Hill Connect and Create | Allows for the creation of custom textbooks or e-books. Choose only the content you want from high-quality textbooks, articles, and cases to combine with your own uploaded content. | McGraw Hill Connect Support |
| McGraw Hill Education | Provider of customized educational content, software, and services. | McGraw Hill Education Support |
| Packback | An inquiry-driven online discussion pedagogy and platform which improves student motivation and critical thinking through discussion. | Packback Help |
| Panopto | Allows connection to videos. Instructors can create and add multiple choice, checkbox, and true/false questions to their recordings in seconds, directly from the Panopto online video editor. Each quiz automatically pauses video playback, allowing viewers to take as much time as needed with each question. | Ohio University Panopto Help Page |
| Pearson MyLab & Mastering |
Create a course to best fit the unique needs of your curriculum and your students. Each course has a foundation of interactive course-specific content that you can tailor and assign as you see fit. |
Pearson MyLab Support |
| Pearson Revel | Deliver an engaging blend of author content, media, and assessment. Students read and practice in one continuous experience. Interactive content and assessments integrated throughout the narrative provide opportunities for students to explore and apply concepts. Mobile and user-friendly, so students can learn anytime, anywhere, on any device. | Pearson Revel Support |
| Perusall | Collaborative annotation tool where you can create multimodal assignments for student interaction. | |
| Piazza | A wiki-style Q&A tool where anyone can ask and answer questions that are community-edited. Each question has a single students' answer that students can contribute to, and a single instructors' answer that instructors can contribute to. Instructor endorsements of good questions and answers let instructors push the class in the right direction. | Piazza Toolkit |
| Proctortrack | Exam proctoring tool that offers AI-based and blended live proctoring. | Ohio University Proctortrack Help Pages |
| Redshelf | An ebook distributer that allows readers to highlight text and take notes, define unfamiliar words, create flashcards, build study guides, generate citations, have text read aloud, and print select pages. | |
| Rising Software (Musition and Auralia) | Instructors can create questions for ear training & music theory using audio recordings and notation excerpts and then utilize these questions for assessment, worksheets and curriculum mapping. | Rising Software Support |
| Sage | Digital platform that blends trusted SAGE content with auto-graded assignments, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. | Sage Contact Us |
| Shadow Health | Allow students in a variety of programs and expertise levels to demonstrate and perfect their clinical reasoning skills through life-like interactions with Digital Standardized Patients. | Shadow Health Support |
| Skillsoft | Employee Training content. Engage learners with interactive videos and practical simulations. | Skillsoft Resources |
| Top Hat | Easy-to-use tools to engage your classroom, adopt and author next generation interactive textbooks, create assignments on the fly and securely administer tests. Allows grades to sync from Top Hat to Blackboard and pulls users from Blackboard to Top Hat. | Top Hat Support |
| Turnitin | A plagiarism detection and assignment tool that helps to ensure original work from students and address even the most sophisticated potential misconduct. | Turnitin Support |
| VitalSource | Inclusive Access Program. eTextbook provider with a full suite of study tools, such as search, read aloud, notes, highlights, review mode, and look up. Provides an analytics dashboard and instructors can obtain data that can inform retention and student success strategies. | VitalSource Support |
| VoiceThread | Multimedia content tool that allows you to upload, share and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files and videos. Comment on VoiceThread slides using a microphone, webcam, text, phone, or audio-file upload. | Ohio University VoiceThread Help Pages |
| WileyPlus | Textbook provider that improves outcomes with robust practice problems and feedback, fosters engagement with course content and educational videos, and gives students the flexibility to increase confidence as they learn and prepare outside of class. | Wiley Instructor Support Wiley Student Support |
| WW Norton | Textbook publisher that provides learning tools to integrate into your LMS for a seamless student learning experience. | WW Norton Help |
| Ximera | Ximera is an interactive textbook platform that lets you write documents in LATEX and post them as interactive activities online for your students. By relying on GitHub to store content, you can easily share activities with your colleagues. | Ximera Contact Us |
| Zybooks | A Web interactive STEM content provider that helps students learn challenging topics with auto-grading. Provides a learning experience through simulation environments, animations, and embedded tools. | Zybooks Instructor Support |