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Blackboard Learn and Macmillan Higher Education Select. Customize. Assign Blackboard and Macmillan Higher Education (representing Bedford/St. Martins, W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishers) have formed a premier partnership to provide seamless access to Macmillan Portal and Class content directly within the Blackboard Learn™ platform1.
With Macmillan Higher Education and Blackboard, instructors can customize their courses to reflect their specific teaching goals and improve student engagement. Instructors can now easily select the high quality content they need, customize it to meet the needs of each course, and assign it at the chapter and asset level within their Blackboard Learn course.
High Quality Content with Incredible Flexibility Instructors and students now have direct access to Macmillan Higher Education’s premier, flexible online solutions within the Blackboard Learn platform: • Macmillan Portals: W.H. Freeman and Worth’s Portals offer the ultimate in innovation, convenience, and affordability. Covering the sciences and social sciences, each Portal combines a fully customizable eTextbook, a wealth of media resources, and a wide range of assessment and course management features. • Macmillan Classes: With a focus on the humanities, Bedford/St. Martin’s Classes are shaped by the needs of each discipline and come preloaded with innovative digital content including a fully customizable eTextbook, documents, images, audio, and a full assessment suite to allow professors to monitor student progress. Designed to dynamically support course-level teaching and learning goals, Macmillan Portals and Classes allow instructors to adopt the full solution or tailor content and tools to meet their specific goals.
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Available for Blackboard Learn, Release 9.1, Service Pack 10 and above.
Dynamic Content Meets Ease of Use With Macmillan Higher Education and Blackboard, instructors can customize their courses – fully, quickly, and easily – to better match their personal teaching style and their individual students’ needs. • Seamless Access: Single sign-on provides instructors and students with the convenience of one login for all course resources. • One Gradebook, Automatically Updated: Grades for all Macmillan assignments and assessments automatically post to the Blackboard Learn Grade Center, giving instructors and students one destination to monitor class performance. • Deep Linking: Chapter and asset-level linking functionality allows instructors to link to the Macmillan content that matches their specific course needs, ensuring students have easy access to the right learning resources at the right time. • Familiar Workflows: Access to Macmillan content within the course content area makes it easy for instructors to find and adopt content within their native Blackboard Learn workflow. Macmillan’s high-quality content and course resources together with Blackboard Learn tools increase student engagement through asynchronous interaction and communication. And, with all course resources and grades into one place, instructors and students can enjoy one integrated online teaching and learning experience.
Single Sign-On Access to Content
Content Selection Within Course Workflow
Direct Links to Content
Innovative Delivery Accelerates Speed to Market The Macmillan deep integration, built with Blackboard, is the first partner integration to be delivered through the Blackboard Partner CloudTM Building Block. This building block connects to the Partner Cloud, which streamlines our inventory of content building blocks into a single registration and activation process. While eliminating the challenges of managing old and new building block versions, the Partner Cloud also accelerates the delivery of new Macmillan features and product updates.
Student Data: Secure and Private Student data remains private and secure in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) in the United States and with student privacy laws around the world. Data sharing and storage is limited to institutional information and encrypted unique identifiers only, and sensitive student information is not shared between Blackboard and Macmillan or stored in the cloud.
Get Started Today Go to Behind.blackboard.com to download the Partner Cloud Building Block for Blackboard Learn, Service Packs 10 through 12. The Building Block comes bundled with Blackboard Learn 9.1, Service Pack 13. To learn more, contact your Blackboard Learn Account Representative or visit blackboard.com/macmillan.
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