Macmillan Learning
Macmillan Learning provides a place where students can read, study, practice, and complete homework. If a course uses Macmillan Learning content, this LTI can help integrate the content, homework, and grades such that it is organized for students to access and for instructors to grade.
- Pre-built quizzes
- Book questions are in the online system
- The ability to create new questions
Getting Started
Instructor Resources
Adding Macmillan Learning to Your Canvas Course
- Open your Canvas course.
- Follow the steps in the ‘How do I manage Course Navigation links?‘ guide to enable the link for Macmillan Learning
- Select Save
- Click Macmillan Learning link in your course navigation.
- Choose the Macmillan Learning Tool you wish to integrate with your course: Connect with Launchpad, Connect with Sapling, or Connect with Achieve.
- Sign into your Instructor Profile by entering your Macmillan credentials and Submit.
- Continue with sign-on by clicking Continue, then Authenticate.
- Click Authorize to integrate your account, and then Continue to finish provisioning.
- Locate your Macmillan Course, confirm that the course name and course ID match the course you would like to connect to Canvas, and click Associate.
- Click Yes, Associate This Course, and then choose OK.
Using Macmillan Learning in Your Canvas Course
- Click the Macmillan Learning link in your Canvas course.
- A number of tool links will be displayed.
- You may add/link Macmillan content to Canvas with or without gradebook synchronization
Synchronize Content to Canvas Gradebook
This will create a link to an assignment within your Canvas course and a synched gradebook column.
- In a Macmillan course, assign items with a due date and points (if changes to the due date and/or points are made within Canvas, the automatic grade sync may not function properly)
- If you wish to utilize weighted percentages or drop the lowest scores, create assignment groups and rules for assignment groups within Canvas.
- Log in to Canvas and open the course.
- Select Macmillan Learning and then click Macmillan Content.
- Open assignments folder, assignments that have been assigned a due date and points within Macmillan Learn will appear. Gray unbolded font indicates the assignment is available to add, bold font indicates the assignment has already been added to Canvas.
- Select the check boxes next to the assignments you wish to add.
- Click Next, Choose Location.
- To add assignments within a module(s) choose a location, if you do not choose a location items will be added to the assignments tab.
- Click Deploy Selected Content
- Close the confirmation to return to Canvas.
- Publish the assignments within the Modules or Assignments tab.
- Assignments added to sync with the gradebook will display with an assignment icon in the Modules tab.
Adding Content Without Synchronization to Canvas Gradebook
- Within the Achieve/Launchpad/Sapling course, assign items with due date and points. You must assign points within Achieve/Launchpad/Sapling before you may add them to Canvas even when they will not be added to your Canvas grade book.
- Log in to Canvas and open course.
- Go to Modules tab and click +Module at the top of the Module where you would like to add Achieve/Launchpad/Sapling content. From the Add drop-down list select External Tool and click Macmillan Learning.
- Choose the content you would like to add. You can either choose an assignment to link or create a link to the Achieve/Launchpad/Sapling Home Page by clicking either Achieve/Launchpad/Sapling Home or Student Registration. All ungraded items can only be added one at a time.
- Click Deploy Selected Content.
- Check the box Load in a new tab and click Add Item.
- Publish the assignments within the Modules tab.
- Assignments that will not be synced to the Canvas grade book will display with a chain-link icon in the Modules tab.
Student Resources
Pair your Canvas Account with Macmillan Learn
Note 1: Macmillan recommends you utilize Google Chrome to access Macmillan Learn.
Note 2: Macmillan ebooks are included and accessed with the Macmillan Learn tool in the course navigation. They are not available through the Immediate Access tool.
- Login into Canvas.
- Open the course using Macmillan Learn.
- Register with your Iowa State email.
- Troubleshoot problems with Macmillan.
- Support
- Online Documentation
- Licensing and Policies
- Compatibility
Licensing
This tool is available to students when purchased as part of their course materials.