Moodle: Activities & Resources: External Tools: Cengage

The Cengage activity is a publisher tool that allows instructors to link Cengage course content to Moodle courses. The Cengage external tool enables deep linking, allowing students to access activities and resources directly through Moodle. Deep linking also supports gradebook synchronization, which can be manually triggered by the instructor within the Cengage course or set to sync automatically at regular intervals.

The first time a Cengage tool is added to a Moodle course, the instructor must log in to the Cengage platform to pair the Moodle and Cengage courses. Students will also be prompted to log in the first time they access the tool to link their Moodle account with the Cengage course.

• A note about support: Because the external tool activity links your Moodle course to an external website, most issues encountered in this tool should be troubleshot through Cengage customer support or the specific Cengage customer representative who helped set up the course. The LSU Faculty Technology Center can assist with any Moodle issues and can work with the tool's support team on Moodle-related gradebook sync concerns.
   
• Moodle Course Design Tip: Cengage external tool activity completion tracking will only work when a grade is sent from Cengage to Moodle. It will not work if both Student must view this activity to complete it and Student must receive a grade to complete this activity are both selected.

To Add a Cengage Course or eBook:

1. Follow the steps in Activities & Resources: Add an External Tool and select Cengage from the Preconfigured tool drop-down list.
    
2. Click the Select content button. Select either the Online Learning Platform + eBook or eBook Only. Then search for and select you textbook.
   • If selecting the Online Learning Platform + eBook option, choose your textbook edition and click Continue (Found at the bottom right and may require scrolling more than one scroll bar). Follow the instructions from Cengage on how to create, copy, or link to a Cengage course.
   • If selecting the eBook Only option, on your selected textbook, you can link individual chapters or link the full ebook.
      
3. Click Save and return to course.
    

To Add a Cengage Activity or Resource:

For the Online Learning Platform + eBook option, once the Moodle course and Cengage course have been connected, additional Cengage External Tool activities can be added throughout the Moodle course to deep link directly to Cengage Content.

1. Follow the steps in Activities & Resources: Add an External Tool and select Cengage from the Preconfigured tool drop-down list.
    
2. Click the Select content button, then click the Select content button on the Cengage popup window.
    
3. Check the Cengage content items to add to the Moodle course.
    
4. Click Continue (Found at the bottom right and may require scrolling more than one scroll bar).
    
5. Depending on how many items are selected this may take a few minutes. Once items are added to the Moodle course, use the arrow below each activity to rearrange them as needed.