The Content Market is a gateway for your users to find and add valuable external learning materials to their courses, including web-based tools and content from many different providers, such as academic publishers. The items appear alongside the course materials instructors create, making the experience seamless for students and other course members.
Partner content in the Content Market
The Content Market is a one-stop shop for instructors to access external content they want to use in their course. Instructors and course builders can access ready-made material from textbook publishers to enhance their curriculum and provide students with supplementary materials that aid in learning.
Blackboard Partner Cloud
If your institution has installed and configured the Blackboard Partner Cloud, your users will be able to access a wealth of materials from these publishers, all in one place.
Leveraging the larger Blackboard Cloud infrastructure, the Partner Cloud allows institutions to access state-of-the-art, high quality educational content from multiple vendors within the Blackboard Learn platform through a single building block.
The Partner Cloud Building Block offers a single registration and activation process for content partner integrations. With this Building Block, system administrators have access to the full content inventory available through the Partner Cloud and can efficiently control and manage what commercial content is visible through Blackboard Learn. This new distribution vehicle eliminates the cumbersome process of managing old and new versions of building blocks while also providing customers with access to new features and product improvements more quickly.
In moving to this streamlined technology, Blackboard will continue to incorporate best practices and deploy consistent and native Blackboard Learn workflows for all partner integrations, including:
- Single sign-on provides instructors and students with the convenience of one login for all course resources.
- Automated gradebook refresh ensures all assignment grades appear in the gradebook, saving instructors' time.
- Compliance with student data privacy laws, such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), ensures sensitive student information remains protected and secure.
More on the Blackboard Partner Cloud
Enable the Content Market in a course
After you enable the Blackboard Partner Cloud Building Block, you can also enable the Content Market as a course tool. Go to Administrator Panel > Tools > Partner Cloud and select the availability for the Content Market and Content Market Tools.