Setting up your Norton course in Blackboard through Willo

Setting up your Norton course

  1. The deep linking tool is accessed from any Content area in Blackboard. If you don’t have any Content areas yet, first add one. 
  2. In Blackboard Classic/Original View, from any content area click on the Build Content menu, and select Follett-Willo Digital Delivery 1.3 from the dropdown menu (note the name might vary slightly at your campus).
  3. In Blackboard Ultra Course
    • Click on the … (3 dots) menu in Course Content and select Import Content.
    • Click on Content Market
    • Choose and select Follett-Willo Digital Delivery 1.1/1.3 from the listed Institution Tools.
  4. Click Continue in a New Window. 
  5. Click Select to confirm your course materials
  6. If your course materials have not yet been paired, you will be prompted to enter a Product Token. See here for more information on Product Tokens.
  7. In Course Management, click Add Publisher Links, and then Continue to W. W. Norton 
  8. Log in using the email and password tied to your Norton account. If you don’t have a Norton account yet, reach out to your Norton rep for help.
  9. Follow the steps in the wizard to create a Norton course, which is matched to your Blackboard course. You’ll need to set this up just once per Blackboard course
    • Step 1. This step confirms that you’re connected with your Blackboard course. 
    • Step 2Confirm that the course material paired to your course is correct. If this is not correct, please contact your bookstore to get it updated to the correct material before proceeding.
    • If applicable, confirm whether your course is participating in your school’s inclusive or equitable access program. Note that this program can be called different names.
    • Step 3. Enter some required course details. 
    • Step 4. Confirm all your course information and create the course. (Or, to correct anything, use the “Previous” button to go back and edit it.) 

Adding deep links to course material

  1. Choose course material to add to your Blackboard course
    • Resource links such as Videos, Documents, or unassignable Ebooks, will be sent to Blackboard as ungraded External Tool links.
    • Assignable activities like Norton Illumine Ebook, InQuizitive, Smartwork, Tutorials, etc. will be sent to Blackboard as Graded External Tool links, with a corresponding Gradebook column
      • For assignments, you may set a due date, and adjust the LMS point value
  2. Click the Review & Send to LMS button at the bottom of the screen. You’ll see a summary of the links you selected. Confirm, and Send to LMS. 
  3. When complete, the modal will close, and you will see the content in your Blackboard course.  You can reorganize or regroup your content in Blackboard so that your course is laid out the way you want.
    • Classic View:
    • Ultra View:

Relaunching deep linking tool

You don’t have to select all your links at once. You can launch this tool from your Blackboard course to add additional links throughout the semester.

  1. From Blackboard Modules, relaunch the deep linking tool.
    • In Blackboard Classic/Original View, from any content area click on the Build Content menu, and select Follett-Willo Digital Delivery 1.3 from the dropdown menu (note the name might vary slightly at your campus).
    • In Blackboard Ultra Courses
      • Click on the …(3 dots) menu in Course Content and select Import Content.
      • Click on Content Market
      • Choose and select Follett-Willo Digital Delivery 1.1/1.3 from the listed Institution Tools.
  2. Click Continue in a New Window.
  3. In Course Management, click Add Publisher Links, and then Continue to W. W. Norton 
  4. Follow the steps listed here: Adding course material deep links to Blackboard
      • Note that the tool will indicate which links you have already added to your course