Add an Engage Activity to a Course

A powerful feature of Engage is its ability to sync poll and attendance grades to your Blackboard course Gradebook. 

Once you add an Engage Activity to Blackboard, students will need to click the Engage Activity link in Blackboard to participate.

To connect the poll to a course, you'll need to add it to your Blackboard course site's content area. 

Note: You cannot add a poll to more than one course. If you want to re-use a poll, you'll need to duplicate it for each course that you want to use it in.

In a content area of your course, point to BUILD CONTENT, then choose Engage - Add Activity to Course.

 

The Add Activity page defaults to adding a poll. If you want to add an Attendance Check, click the ATTENDANCE CHECK tab at the top.

Top of add activity window, attendance check text circled

 

If necessary, use the search box to locate the activity you wish to add. The filter button left of the search box can be used to narrow the results displayed.

Top of add activity window, search box and filter button circled 

 

Click the + button on the far right of the row for the activity you wish to add.

activities list, add button circled.

This will add the item to your course's content list. If the item is scored, it will also add a 100-point column to the course Gradebook. Student scores will be added upon completion (if the item includes short-answer questions, you will need to score those items manually before the grade imports).

Scores are added as a percent (points out of 100).

A powerful feature of Engage is its ability to sync poll and attendance grades to your Blackboard course Gradebook. 

Note: You cannot add a poll to more than one course. If you want to re-use a poll, you'll need to duplicate it for each course that you want to use it in.

To connect the poll to a course, you'll need to add it to your Blackboard course site's content area. 

Once you add an Engage Activity to Blackboard, students will need to click the Engage Activity link in Blackboard to participate.

Click the ADD button in the content area, then choose CONTENT MARKET.

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Locate and click the Engage - Add Activity to Course (red-check) button in the Content Market list. 

Add activity to course button in context, circled

 

The Add Activity page defaults to adding a poll. If you want to add an Attendance Check, click the ATTENDANCE CHECK tab at the top.

Top of add activity window, attendance check text circled

 

If necessary, use the search box to locate the activity you wish to add. The filter button left of the search box can be used to narrow the results displayed.

Top of add activity window, search box and filter button circled 

 

Click the + button on the far right of the row for the activity you wish to add.

activities list, add button circled.

This will add the item to your course's content list. If the item is scored, it will also add a 100-point column to the course Gradebook. Student scores will be added upon completion (if the item includes short-answer questions, you will need to score those items manually before the grade imports).

Scores are added as a percent (points out of 100).