Library Teaching Toolkit

There are lots of ways you can embed library resources and services, including librarians, into Blackboard. See the instructions to the right for adding an Embedded Librarian in Blackboard.

The links below contain more information and tips for embedding in Blackboard.

To add a librarian to your Blackboard course, you'll need to assign them the role of Embedded Librarian.

1. Log in to Blackboard and select the course you want to embed the librarian in.
2. Under the section header “Course Management” of the left of the screen, click on Control Panel, then Users and Groups, then Users.
3. Under the header “Users,” click on Find Users to Enroll.  Type the librarian’s myWSU ID, which is the username, in the search box.
4. Use the drop-down box labeled “Role” to select Embedded Librarian.  Click on Submit. 
5. The librarian will show up in the class roster with the role Embedded Librarian.