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Ares Course Reserves: Adding Ares to Blackboard

A Guide to Ares - JIBC's electronic course reserve system

Adding Ares to Blackboard

When you are working from a blank Blackboard course shell, you need to manually add Ares. 

Follow the instructions on this page to add Ares to the left-hand menu of a Blackboard course. Once Ares has been added, use the Adding Items to Ares page to add new items to Ares, or the Cloning Items in Ares to clone items from a previous Ares course. 

Questions? Email copyright@jibc.ca. 

How to Add Ares to a Blackboard Course

Follow the steps below to add Ares to a Blackboard course. 

  1. Select the (+) plus button on the top left of the left-hand menu and select 'Tool Link'.

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  2. Add Tool Type: ARES_LTI. We suggest naming the Tool 'Course Readings' or 'Course Materials'. Select 'Available to Users'. Click Submit.

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  3. The Course Reading link is now available in the left-hand menu of your Blackboard course. 

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  4. When you click on 'Course Readings', you will come to a blank page requesting you to ‘Choose a semester’. Select the correct semester from the dropdown menu and press ‘Create Course’.

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  5. You now have a blank Ares instance attached to this course. Next, you need to add new items to Ares or you can clone items from a previous Ares course. Use the Adding Items to Ares page to add new items to Ares, or the Cloning Items in Ares to clone items from a previous Ares course. 

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