Using Course Cartridges in Blackboard

Course Cartridges enable Instructors to gain access to complete sets of teaching tools
provided by academic publishers. Once the materials are downloaded to a Blackboard
Learning System course Web site, Instructors are free to customize the content by
adding and deleting materials as needed to correlate with specific topics covered in the
classroom.

Instructors download Course Cartridges from the Course Cartridge Repository and
install cartridges into course Web sites through the Course Control Panel.

General Process for using Course Cartridges in Blackboard

1. Faculty member decides to use a textbook that has a course cartridge formatted for Blackboard delivery.
2. Faculty member contacts publisher to notify them that he wants to use the course cartridge.
3. Rep from publishing company contacts faculty to give them instructions on accessing and using the materials.
4. Faculty member contacts St. Edward's bookstore and "orders" the access keys for students, just like textbook order.
5. Bookstore orders keys for students.
6. Once order has been placed, publisher emails faculty member his professor access key code.
7. Faculty member logs into his Blackboard course site, the one in which he wants to use the course cartridges, and clicks on Control Panel > Import Course Cartridge, then types in (or copies and pastes) the course cartridge key into the box when prompted.
8. The cartridge then gets automatically loaded into the Blackboard site.
9. Faculty member then goes through the content and decides what he wants to use and how he wants it configured, just like any other content.
10. Faculty member contacts Instructional Computing for training or support on using the cartridge, if needed.
11. Once keys are received by bookstore, students purchase them just like textbooks, or bundled with their textbooks.
12. The first time a student goes to the class's Blackboard site, he is prompted for a key code, the one he purchased from the Bookstore, which he then types in.
13. All content (presentations, quizzes, links, exercises, videos, audio lectures, etc) that the faculty member has chosen to utilize and make visible to students will be there for them, under the menu options that the faculty member chose to use.