Tomax for Blackboard
Tomax is an exam management platform that connects natively to Blackboard and supports LTI 1.3 with all LTI Advantage services. Students start from Blackboardwith single sign-on, authoring, secure delivery, integrity checks, and marking run in Tomax, and grades and annotated scripts are pushed back to the Blackboard gradebook. Blackboard stays your system of record for courses and enrollment.
- Single sign-on (SAML, OAuth 2.0)
- Students launch the exam from the LMS (LTI 1.3)
- Grades written back to the gradebook
Como funciona
From the first click to the grade, in three steps
Students start from Blackboard
They open the exam from the course they already use. Single sign-on means no separate login.
The assessment runs in Tomax
Authoring, secure delivery, integrity checks, and marking happen in Tomax.
The grade returns to Blackboard
Grades and annotated scripts are pushed back to the gradebook.
What Connects
The Blackboard integration at a glance
- Connection
- Native integration with Blackboard
- LMS standard
- LTI 1.3, with all LTI Advantage services
- Deep Linking
- Instructors pick a Tomax exam from inside Blackboard and place it in their course
- Assignment and Grade Services
- Grades return from Tomax to the Blackboard gradebook
- Names and Role Provisioning Services
- Course rosters and roles come from Blackboard into Tomax
- Autenticação única
- SAML and OAuth 2.0, so staff and students use existing institutional credentials
- Grades
- Grades and annotated scripts pushed back to the Blackboard gradebook
- Bancos de questões
- Existing banks imported during onboarding, including items held in Blackboard question pools
- Where assessments live
- Authored and delivered in Tomax or inside Blackboard
- Other systems
- RESTful API, webhooks, and SFTP and CSV. Custom connectors are built and maintained by Tomax.
- Getting started
- The demo runs in your browser with nothing to install. LMS connection comes up when you move to a pilot.
Using a different LMS?
Perguntas frequentes
No. Tomax runs alongside Blackboard and handles the assessment layer (authoring, secure delivery, integrity, and grading) while Blackboard stays the system of record for courses and enrollment.
Yes. Tomax supports LTI 1.3 with all LTI Advantage services: Deep Linking (instructors place a Tomax exam in a Blackboard course from inside Blackboard), Assignment and Grade Services (grades return to the Blackboard gradebook), and Names and Role Provisioning Services (course rosters and roles come from Blackboard). It sits alongside the native connection to Blackboard.
No. Single sign-on through SAML and OAuth 2.0 means staff and students use the institutional credentials they already have.
Grades and annotated scripts are returned to students and pushed back to the Blackboard gradebook.
Existing banks are imported during onboarding, including items held in Blackboard question pools. Nothing needs to be rewritten to be reused.
Yes. A RESTful API, webhooks, and SFTP and CSV cover systems without a native connector, and our team builds and maintains custom connectors.
The demo runs in your browser with nothing to install. The LMS connection comes up when you move to a pilot, and institutions commonly pilot with one department or one exam period first.
Want to see it work with Blackboard?
See the exam flow from the first click to the grade in the gradebook, in a 30-minute walkthrough built around your institution's setup.
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