Setting up your Norton course in D2L/Brightspace through VitalSource

Step 1: Setting up your Norton course

1. From the D2L/Brightspace course, add a module to the course where you can add links. From the module, click on Add Existing Activities and select "VitalSource Content Links" from the drop down menu.  (Note that the name for the VitalSource Content tool may vary.)    
2. Launch the VitalSource tool
3. You will see the Norton text and courseware that has been paired with your course. If your course pairing is not complete, reach out to your bookstore.   
4. Click the Open Publisher Tool button
5. 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.     
6. Follow the steps in the wizard to create a Norton course, which is matched to your D2L/Brightspace course. You’ll need to set this up just once per D2L course    
   1. Step 1. This step confirms that you’re connected with your D2L/Brightspace course        
   2. Step 2. Confirm that the course material paired to your course is correct. If this is not correct, please contact the bookstore to get it updated to the correct material before proceeding.       
   3. 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.    
   4. Step 3. Enter some required course details.     
   5. 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.)    

Step 2: Adding deep links to course material

Choose your integration type

For graded assignments, you may choose to send individual assignment links (most popular), or product homepage links.

• Choose individual assignment links if you want your students to access separate links for each assignment in Blackboard. This will create separate grade columns in the Blackboard gradebook for each assignment per student.
• Choose product homepage links if you want your student to have one link in Blackboard for each Norton product. This will create one grade column for each Norton product in the Blackboard gradebook per student. This grade is a cumulative average of all assignments for that product.     

Add links

1. Choose course material to add to your D2L/Brightspace course   
2. If LMS Grade Column is on, the link will send as an Assignment and will create a grade column with the specified LMS point value. Edit the LMS point value by typing a new value in the box.    
3. Due dates can be set for graded, individual assignment links.   
4. Products that are ungradable will be sent over as links without a grade item     
5. Click the Review button at the bottom of the screen. You'll see a summary of the links you select. Confirm and click the Send To desire2learn button 

When complete, the modal will close, and you will see the content in your D2L/Brightspace course module.  You can reorganize or regroup your content in D2L/Brightspace so that your course is laid out the way you want. 

• If you have sent Product Homepage links, you can set due dates on individual assignments within the product. Launch the product homepage link from D2L/Brightspace and set due dates or edit assignments within the product. 

Step 3: Relaunching deep linking tool

1. From a D2L/Brightspace Module, click on Add Existing Activities from the module and select "VitalSource Content Links" from the drop down menu.  (Note that the name for the VitalSource Content tool may vary.)       
2. Click the Open Publisher Tool button   
3. Follow the steps listed above in Step 2: Adding deep links to course material     
   1. Note that the tool will indicate which links you have already added to your course