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SoftChalk™
Moodle Integration Guide
Updated January 19February 28, 2018

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Contents
Introduction
Links to SoftChalk FAQs, System Specs and Guides
SoftChalk Cloud
Volume Purchase or Purchase Order
Enterprise SoftChalk Cloud
Individual Purchase on the SoftChalk Cloud Website
Trial SoftChalk Cloud Account
SoftChalk Lessons in Moodle
SoftChalk Cloud Users
Scored Lessons (Cloud Users)
ScoreCenter Overview
Basic Procedures
Copy the LTI Link for a Lesson in SoftChalk Cloud
Paste the LTI Link into Moodle
Set the Grading Method and Maximum Attempts
Preview the Lesson
View or Change Scores
Complete All Attempts for All Students for a Lesson
Essays
View Grades from LTI Lessons in the Moodle Grader Report
Non Scored Lessons (Cloud Users)
Edit a SoftChalk Cloud Lesson
Collaborate with Other Instructors on SoftChalk Lessons
Moodle Administrator
Desktop Users
Scored Lessons (Desktop Users) – SCORM 1.2
Print or Email Scores
In SoftChalk: Package a Lesson for SCORM 1.2
In Moodle: Upload the SCORM Zip File
Preview Your SCORM Lesson
View Grades from SCORM Lessons in the Moodle Grader Report
Non Scored Lessons (Desktop Users)
In SoftChalk: Package a Lesson
In Moodle: Upload a Zip File
Edit a Lesson NOT Saved to SoftChalk Cloud
Help
Copyright Information

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This guide covers linking to or uploading your SoftChalk lessons into the Moodle 2.x / 3.x learning management system.
View all our guides at https://softchalk.com/support/user-guides/.

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Links to SoftChalk FAQs, System Specs and Guides

For your instructors, you may want to post the URLs for our guides (see below). As we update the guides, the URLs will remain the same.

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• Link to your content in many places.
• Search for content in SoftChalk Share (SoftChalk Cloud's public content repository) and add it directly to your lessons. You can modify the content you find with a SoftChalk Cloud account.
• Collaborate with other instructors on SoftChalk lessons. For more details, see the section Collaborate with Other Instructors on SoftChalk Lessons in the SoftChalk

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• Collect scores using the SoftChalk ScoreCenter Feature. Grades from your SoftChalk lessons can appear within the gradebook of your learning management system.

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When you view your SoftChalk lesson scores within the Moodle gradebook, you are using a SoftChalk feature called the ScoreCenter. In other words, you click on the name for your lesson in the assignments area of Moodle and you see the SoftChalk ScoreCenter interface but all the scores are also "plugged into" the Moodle gradebook. In Moodle, students will also see their grades from SoftChalk lessons as well.
IMPORTANT: To use the ScoreCenter feature, your Moodle administrator needs to configure your system to use this feature. See the section Moodle Administrator.
With the ScoreCenter feature, you can:

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Basic Procedures

IMPORTANT: Within your lesson in SoftChalk Create, be sure to assign points to each QuizPopper and Activity. (In the main editing window of your SoftChalk lesson, right-click on the QuizPopper or Activity and choose Modify QuizPopper or Modify Activity. Go to the Options tab and use the Points dropdown menu to assign points.)
To have your student scores appear within the Moodle gradebook area (i.e. ScoreCenter interface), you need to:

• Save your lesson into your SoftChalk Cloud account (see the section Save a Lesson to the Cloud in the SoftChalk Cloud Guide).
• Copy the LTI Link for this lesson (see the section Copy the LTI Link for Your Lesson in the SoftChalk Cloud Guide). IMPORTANT: Be sure to copy the LTI Link and NOT the Hyperlink for the lesson.
• Paste this LTI Link into the Lessons area in Moodle (see the section Paste the LTI Link into Moodle).
• Set the Grading Method and Maximum Attempts for each lesson (see the section Set the Grading Method and Maximum Attempts).
• View or change your students' scores (see the section View or Change Scores).
• If you plan to collect and/or score essays, see the section Essays.

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See the section Copy the LTI Link for Your Lesson in the SoftChalk Clo

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Paste the LTI Link into Moodle

1. After copying the LTI Link for your lesson (see the section Copy the LTI Link for Your Lesson in the SoftChalk Cloud Guide.), log into your Moodle account and choose your course (see below).

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1. Scroll to the bottom of your page and click Save and return to course.

1. IMPORTANT: If you get an error u'\xa0' when you click on your LTI link, see below.

If you are entering an Activity description for your LTI link (in Moodle, click the Show Advanced button to show the Activity description field), you may encounter an error -u'\xa0' - if you have extra space(s) at the beginning of your description (see below).

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To test out the lesson, you need to be logged into your course as a student.
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Cloud account while also logged into Moodle and taking a lesson, then the scores won't be recorded. If you have exited your browser, you may still be logged into SoftChalk Cloud, so please go to SoftChalk Cloud and see if you are logged in.

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1. The SoftChalk ScoreCenter screen appears. In the Learner area, click the dropdown menu for the attempts for a specific student. Click on an attempt (see below).

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Chalk Cloud account when you are taking your lesson as a student to test out the ScoreCenter feature. If you are logged into your SoftChalk

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Cloud account while also logged into Moodle and taking a lesson, then the scores won't be recorded. If you have exited your browser, you may still be logged into SoftChalk Cloud, so please go to SoftChalk Cloud and see if you are logged in.

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1. If you need to change the Score for the Attempt, click Change Score for Attempt. Enter a new score and click Submit (see below). IMPORTANT: An attempt has to be complete before you can change the score.

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You have the option to complete all attempts for all students for a lesson. You may find that your students have neglected to complete their attempts (i.e. they have neglected to click Finish on the last page of the lesson – clicking Finish sends a completion status to the gradebook).
IMPORTANT: You may want to do this procedure after the availability of your lesson has expired. After you do this procedure, future attempts can be incomplete.
IMPORTANT: This procedure cannot be undone. (You can change individual scores or re-open individual attempts if you need to.)

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If you go to the Gradebook area in Moodle, you can see that the scores from your lessons (using the LTI Link and external tool – see the previous sections Paste the LTI Link into Moodle and Set the Grading Method and Maximum Attempts) appear in your Moodle Gradebook. (If you want to view or change scores for individual student attempts, see the section View or Change Scores.)
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Cloud account while logged into Moodle and taking a lesson, then the scores won't be recorded.)

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Your Grader report appears with the scores from your SoftChalk lessons (see below). IMPORTANT: A column for your LTI lesson will appear in the Grader report only AFTER a user has completed an attempt for the lesson.

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If you used the LTI Link or Hyperlink to your SoftChalk Cloud lesson, then you can easily edit your lesson within your SoftChalk Cloud account. (You don't have to paste in a new LTI Link or Hyperlink; simply edit your current lesson in SoftChalk Cloud and the LTI Link or Hyperlink for this lesson will still work.)
IMPORTANT: If you edit a lesson that has scored items and you have pasted an LTI Link for this lesson into Moodle, we recommend the scoring for your lesson remain the same if students have started taking this lesson.

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You can collaborate with other instructors to create your SoftChalk lessons using a SoftChalk Cloud account (or a trial SoftChalk Cloud account). Within SoftChalk Create, you can publish your lesson to your SoftChalk Cloud account. Another instructor [also using SoftChalk Create and a SoftChalk Cloud account (or a trial SoftChalk Cloud account)] can access and edit the lesson you published.
IMPORTANT: Simultaneous work in the same lesson is not supported. In other words, one person should be working on the lesson at a time. (If two or more people are making changes to the same lesson at the same time and saving the lesson to the Cloud, they may end up overwriting each other's changes.)
For more details, see the section Collaborate with Other Instructors on SoftChalk Lessons in the SoftChalk Cloud

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1. For the Tool Name, enter SoftChalk Cloud. (This name will be easy for your instructors to recognize - see below for a completed screen).
2. For the Tool Base URL, enter https://softchalkcloud.com
3. Copy and paste the consumer key and secret from the SoftChalk email you received after your registered your server. IMPORTANT: Be sure NOT to paste in spaces at the end of the key and secret. (Make sure you do NOT copy the spaces from your email.)
4. Under the Privacy area, for Share launcher's name with tool choose Always. For Accept grades from the tool choose Always (see below).
5. At the bottom click Save Changes.

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1. Test an LTI Link to see that grades go into the Moodle gradebook by following the steps in the section Scored Lessons (Cloud Users). IMPORTANT: As previously mentioned, be sure to LOG OUT of your SoftCha

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Desktop Users

IMPORTANT: As mentioned previously, we recommend using the SoftChalk Cloud ScoreCenter solution versus using SCORM. See the section ScoreCenter Overview.
IMPORTANT: Within your lesson in SoftChalk Create, be sure to assign points to each QuizPopper and Activity. (In the main editing window of your SoftChalk lesson, right-click on the QuizPopper or Activity and choose Modify QuizPopper or Modify Activity. Go to the Options tab and use the Points dropdown menu to assign points.)

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In SoftChalk: Package a Lesson for SCORM 1.2

1. Within your lesson in SoftChalk Create (or SoftChalk 7 desktop version), choose File/Package Lesson. Under Package type, choose Standard Zip. Under Track score using, choose LMS with SCORM 1.2 (see below).

Within your lesson in SoftChalk 6 or lower, choose File/Package Lesson/SCORM 1.2 Format. (If this option is disabled, then save your lesson or open a lesson.)

1. If you are using SoftChalk Create, select the area where you want the zip file saved such as your Desktop. Then click OK. By default, you would save to your Documents area. With earlier versions of SoftChalk, the _sco.zip file is saved within the lesson folder.
2. Your packaged file has your lesson name with a _sco.zip extension (see below). If your file extensions are not showing, you will not see the .zip at the end of the filename. Look for a folder with a zipper or package icon with your lesson name.

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1. Change the Grading method to Highest grade (If you happened to select Learning Objects, the score will NOT record.) Change the Maximum grade to 100 (or another point value depending on the number of points you designated in your lesson). IMPORTANT: Even though the Grade method is set to Highest grade, the score updates each time in the grader report. In other words, the score displays the LAST score for the student (see below).

IMPORTANT: When you upload packaged SoftChalk lessons into Moodle, the Number of Attempts and Attempts grading options don't have any effect (see below).

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1. Below are the details of the scores for your lesson.

IMPORTANT: As mentioned previously, when you upload packaged SoftChalk lessons into Moodle, the Number of Attempts and Attempts grading options do not have any effect.
IMPORTANT: As mentioned previously, the score updates each time in the grader report. In other words, the score displays the LAST score for the student. (This is how Moodle works with SCORM content.)
IMPORTANT: As mentioned previously, we recommend using the SoftChalk Cloud ScoreCenter solution versus using SCORM 1.2. See the section ScoreCenter Overview.

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1. Start SoftChalk Create. Within your lesson in SoftChalk Create, choose File/Package Lesson. Under Package type, choose Standard Zip. Under Track score using choose None (see below).

Within your lesson in SoftChalk 6 or lower, choose File/Package Lesson/Zip Format. (If this option is disabled, then save your lesson or open a lesson.)

1. If you are using SoftChalk Create, select the area where you want the .zip file saved such as your Desktop. Then click OK. By default, you would save to your Documents area. With earlier versions of SoftChalk, the .zip file is saved within the lesson folder.
2. Your packaged file has your lesson name with a .zip extension (see below). If your file extensions are not showing, you will not see the .zip at the end of the filename. Look for a folder with a zipper or package icon with your lesson name.

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Edit a Lesson NOT Saved to SoftChalk Cloud

IMPORTANT: You cannot overwrite a SCORM lesson. If you put up a second SCORM lesson, there will be a separate column for the SCORM lesson in your gradebook.

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