Deep Linking is the most simple, streamlined method of bringing material from your books on Pressbooks into courses in your LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, or D2L Brightspace).

This chapter will show you how, as an instructor, you can use this method to bring select chapters or entire books from your Pressbooks network into a course in your LMS. It outlines the steps for each supported LMS: Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, and D2L Brightspace.

Canvas

1. Open your Canvas course and navigate to Modules.
2. You’ll be bringing in material from Pressbooks into a module in your course. You can create a new module using the +Module button in the top-right corner or you can use an existing module.
3. Click the + sign on the right side of the module.
4. An ‘Add Item to Module’ viewer will appear. Select the option to Add External tool to Module.
5. You will see a tool (likely named ‘Pressbooks Content Selector’) associated with your Pressbooks network. Click the tool name. (Note: if you do not see a Pressbooks-related tool here, this is because your institution’s LMS administrator needs to enable deep linking.)
6. Once you’ve selected the tool, you’ll see the Table of Contents for every book from your Pressbooks network where you have the user role of Administrator, Editor, or Author.
7. Check the box beside a book title to select a particular book to bring in. Or if you’re looking to bring in particular chapters or front/back matter from a book, select the boxes beside those pages to bring them in.
8. Once you’ve selected the desired material to bring into your course, click the Select Content button.
9. If you selected multiple pages to bring in, they have now been imported into your course. If you selected only one page to bring in, press the Add Item button to complete import.
10. You’ve successfully brought your Pressbooks material into your course.

Moodle

1. Open your Moodle course.
2. On the right of the name of your course, click the Turn editing on button.
3.  Beneath any Topic in the course, click the text ‘Add an activity or resource’
   
4. A viewer appears showing various activities and resources. Click the one named External tool.
   
5. This opens a new page called ‘Adding a new External tool‘. Skip past the Activity Name field on this page.
6. In the Preconfigured tool field, click the ‘Automatic, based on tool URL’ text. This reveals a dropdown menu of tools to choose from. Select the option with the name of your institution’s Pressbooks network. (Note: if you do not see a Pressbooks-related tool here, this is because your institution’s LMS administrator needs to enable deep linking.)
7. Then, click the Select content button.
8. You will see the Table of Contents for every book from your Pressbooks network where you have the user role of Administrator, Editor, or Author.
   
9. Check the box beside a book title to select a particular book to bring in. Or if you’re looking to bring in particular chapters or front/back matter from a book, select the boxes beside those pages to bring them in.
10. Once you’ve selected the desired material to bring into your course, click the Select Content button.
11. If you’ve selected multiple webbook pages to bring in, you’ll be shown this confirmation screen:
    
    Whereas if you’ve selected one webbook page to bring in, you’ll land on the same page but with the ‘Activity name’ and ‘Tool URL’ fields now filled in. Either way, the next step is the same: click the Save and return to course button at the bottom of the page.
12. You’ve successfully brought your Pressbooks material into your course.

Blackboard

1. Open your Blackboard course. Note: you must be enrolled in the Blackboard course in order to use this tool.
2. Click Content in the left sidebar menu.
3. Hover your cursor over Build Content.
   
4. Click the option that corresponds to your Pressbooks network. It will either have a name like ‘Pressbooks Content Selector’ or the name of your Pressbooks network. (Note: if you do not see a Pressbooks-related tool here, this is because your institution’s LMS administrator needs to enable deep linking.)
5. You will be brought to a page showing the Table of Contents for every book from your Pressbooks network where you have the user role of Administrator, Editor, or Author.
   
6. Check the box beside a book title to select a particular book to bring in. Or if you’re looking to bring in particular chapters or front/back matter from a book, select the boxes beside those pages to bring them in.
7. Once you’ve selected the desired material to bring into your course, click the Select Content button.
8. You’ve successfully brought your Pressbooks material into your course.

D2L Brightspace

1. Open your D2L course and navigate to Content.
2. You’ll be bringing in material from Pressbooks into a module within the Table of Contents. You can create a new module using the Add a module… form at the bottom of the page or you can use an existing module.
3. Press the Existing Activities button for the module that you’d like to bring material into. You will see a dropdown list of options, including one with a Pressbooks-related name: likely the name of your Pressbooks network (in this screenshot example, ‘Pressbooks LTI Dev Network’) or a name like ‘Pressbooks Content Selector’ (Note: if you do not see a Pressbooks-related tool here, this is because your institution’s LMS administrator needs to enable deep linking.)
4. You’ll see a viewer showing the Table of Contents for every book from your Pressbooks network where you have the user role of Administrator, Editor, or Author.
   
5. Check the box beside a book title to select a particular book to bring in. Or if you’re looking to bring in particular chapters or front/back matter from a book, select the boxes beside those pages to bring them in.
6. Once you’ve selected the desired material to bring into your course, click the Select Content button.
7. You’ve successfully brought your Pressbooks material into your course.