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This guide covers linking to or uploading your SoftChalk lessons into the Jenzabar learning management system.
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This guide has step by step instructions for linking to or uploading your SoftChalk lessons into Jenzabar. Please note that scores from SoftChalk lessons can go into your Jenzbar gradebook. | |
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To take advantage of volume purchasing (or if you plan to purchase a SoftChalk Cloud account with a purchase order), please contact sales@softchalk.com.
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Your institution also has the option to purchase an Enterprise SoftChalk Cloud. Please contact sales@softchalk.com
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Go to our SoftChalk Cloud website and click the Join Now button in the upper right part of the screen (see below). Fill out the information and submit your credit card information.
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Try out a SoftChalk Cloud account for 30 days. Click the Join Now button (see above) and fill out the information.
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- Scored lessons, see the section Scored Lessons (Cloud Users). (While your preferred method would probably be to collect student scores in the Jenzabar gradebook, you can also collect emails from students and have students print certificates. See the section Print or Email Scores.)
- Non scored lessons, see the section Non Scored Lessons (Cloud Users).
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When you view your SoftChalk lesson scores within the Jenzabar 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 Jenzabar and you see the SoftChalk ScoreCenter interface but all the scores are also "plugged into" the Jenzabar gradebook. (In Jenzabar, students will also see their grades from SoftChalk lessons as well.)
IMPORTANT: To use the ScoreCenter feature, your Jenzabar administrator needs to configure your system to use this feature. See the section Jenzabar Administrator.
With the ScoreCenter feature, you can:
- Determine which score is the grade for the student (i.e. first, highest, last or average score). (Attempts for all scores are viewable.)
- Determine how many times a student can go into a lesson (unlimited times or a specific number of times)
- Get detailed scoring information for individual students (i.e. what a student did on an activity and/or quiz items)
- Change scores
- Update your lesson in one place (SoftChalk Cloud) and link to it in multiple sections or courses.
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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 Jenzabar gradebook area (i.e. ScoreCenter interface), you need to:
- Save your lesson into your SoftChalk Cloud account (see the section Save a Lesson or Course to the Cloud in the SoftChalk Cloud Guide).
- Get the LTI hyperlink for this lesson (see the section Get the Hyperlink or LTI Hyperlink for Your Lesson in the SoftChalk Cloud Guide). IMPORTANT: Be sure to get the LTI hyperlink and NOT the hyperlink for the lesson.
- Put the LTI hyperlink into the Courses area in Jenzabar (see the section Put the LTI Hyperlink into Jenzabar).
- Set the Grading Method and Number of Attempts for each lesson (see the section Set the Grading Method and Number of 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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Before you can put an LTI Hyperlink into Jenzabar, you must Add a Learning Tool. You will only have to do this once. See the section Jenzabar Administrator to do so. *Note: We recommend and have tested with Jenzabar version 1.6.4 and higher for using LTI.
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- After getting the LTI hyperlink for your lesson, (see the section Get the Hyperlink or LTI Hyperlink for Your Lesson in the SoftChalk Cloud Guide), log into your Jenzabar account and choose your course (see below).
- At the left, click Coursework (see below).
- Click Add an assignment (see below).
- Select the Basic format (see below).
- Name the assignment, enter a Due date, select Now next to Open, and type in 100 for the amount of Points (see below). (The points must be 100 because the LTI only supports passing a percentage score into the gradebook.)
- Click the dropdown arrow for Step Two (see below).
- Select SoftChalk Cloud as the learning tool (see below).
- Under My tool location, paste in the LTI hyperlink of your lesson from SoftChalk Cloud (see below).
- Under the Step Three dropdown click Save your new assignment (see below).
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You will need to set the grading method (i.e. first attempt, last attempt, average attempt or highest attempt) and the number of attempts allowed (unlimited or a specific number of attempts). All the student attempts will be collected and you can view all the attempts for each student for each lesson. You can change the grading method and number of attempts at any point. (Obviously, if you want to allow your students only one attempt for the lesson, you need to set that option right away.)
- Log into your Jenzabar account and choose your course (see below).
- At the left, click Coursework (see below).
- Select your Assignment from the list (see below).
- Click the More dropdown and click Launch learning tool (see below).
- The SoftChalk ScoreCenter screen appears. Click Change Grading Method. Select a grading method from the drop down menu and be sure to click Change Grading Method (see below).
- At the SoftChalk ScoreCenter screen, click Change Maximum Attempts. Select the number of attempts from the drop down menu and be sure to click Change Maximum Attempts (see below).
- Close the ScoreCenter window by clicking the X in the upper right corner (see below).
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To test out the lesson, you need to be logged into your course as a student.
IMPORTANT: Be sure to LOG OUT of your SoftChalk Cloud (htttps://softchalkcloud.com) account when you are taking your lesson as a student to test out the ScoreCenter feature. (If you are logged into your SoftChalk Cloud (htttps://softchalkcloud.com) account while logged into Jenzabar and taking a lesson, then the scores won't be recorded.)
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- Log into your Jenzabar account and select your course from under My Courses (see below).
- At the left, click Coursework (see below).
- Select your assignment from the list (see below).
- Click the More dropdown and click Launch learning tool (see below).
- 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). If you are unable to view all the attempts for a student, make sure your lesson is set to open in a new tab. (Edit the assignment, select more options, click within the URL field, select the checkbox Load this tool in a new tab, click Select and click Update Assignment.) If you are still having trouble viewing attempts, then change your browser view to less than 100% (View/Zoom/Zoom out).As mentioned previously, IMPORTANT: Be sure to LOG OUT of your SoftChalk Cloud (htttps://softchalkcloud.com) account when you are taking your lesson as a student to test out the ScoreCenter feature. (If you are logged into your SoftChalk Cloud (htttps://softchalkcloud.com) account while logged into Jenzabar and taking a lesson, then the scores won't be recorded.)
- Notice you can view detailed information about this attempt at the bottom.
- If you need to change the Score for the Attempt, click Change Score for Attempt. Enter a new score and click Submit (see below).
- Notice that you also have the option to Clear an attempt (see below). If you clear an attempt, it will not count as part of the grade calculation. If you change your mind, you can restore the attempt.
- Notice that you also have the option to Complete an attempt (see below). If a student starts a lesson but neglects to click the Finish button at the end of the lesson, then that attempt is incomplete. An incomplete attempt does not count as part of the grade calculation. You can cause the attempt to be completed so that the score for the attempt is part of the grade calculation.
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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 if you need to.)
- Click on the name of your lesson in the Assignments area.
- Click Complete All Attempts and Complete All Attempts (see below).
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If you use essays in your lesson, you can view the essays within the ScoreCenter area (see the previous section View or Change Scores). Please note the following important information.
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You can modify the grade for the lesson based on the points you decide to give to the essay. For example, you may have a lesson worth 100 points including one essay worth 10 points. (You assigned the points under the Options tab for the essay and other items.) Let's say a student completes everything correctly, completes the essay, clicks the Finish button for the essay and then clicks the Finish button on the last page of the lesson to submit his or her score. At this stage, the student has a score of 90 out of 100 because you will need to evaluate the essay and assign points. You can go into the gradebook (i.e. ScoreCenter) and evaluate the essay and modify the score. You may want to provide feedback to the student on the essay by clicking the Feedback button within the attempt.
(You may want to explain the above process to your students; as mentioned, you also have the option to assign 0 points to an essay if you like.)
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This section explains how to have your students access "practice" SoftChalk lessons. In other words, you don't plan to collect student scores from these lessons. [You can have items that have points assigned to them within your lesson, but if you want to collect the scores, see the section Scored Lessons (Cloud Users).]
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- At the left, click Coursework (see below).
- Click Add an Assignment (see below).
- Select the Basic format (see below).
- Name the assignment, enter a Due date, select Now next to Open, and select Not graded (see below).
- Click the dropdown arrow for Step Two (see below).
- Select SoftChalk Cloud as the learning tool (see below).
- Under My tool location, paste in the hyperlink of your lesson from SoftChalk Cloud (see below).
- Under Step Three click Save your new assigment (see below).
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If you used the LTI hyperlink or hyperlink to your lesson, then you can easily replace your lesson within your SoftChalk Cloud account. (You don't have to put in a new LTI hyperlink or hyperlink; simply edit or replace your current lesson in SoftChalk Cloud and the LTI hyperlink or hyperlink for this lesson will still work.)
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The steps below are for your Jenzabar administrator to enable the LTI/ScoreCenter feature for your Jenzabar server. For details on the LTI/ScoreCenter feature, see the section Scored Lessons (Cloud Users).
As a Jenzabar administrator, to use the ScoreCenter feature, you need to register with SoftChalk and configure the ScoreCenter for your system. IMPORTANT: Notice the domain for your tool will be softchalkcloud.com (do NOT enter https://www.softchalkcloud.com which appears in your email – Jenzabar just wants the domain name – softchalkcloud.com).
- Please contact help@softchalk.com and provide the following information to register with SoftChalk and receive authentication credentials (i.e. an OAuth Consumer Key and an OAuth Consumer Secret).If you have a test server and a production server, you may send us two LMS URLs and we will register both of them. (You will receive a separate email with a unique key and secret for each registered URL.)
- Your institution name
- LMS URL
- First Name (optional) of the person registering with us
- Last Name (optional) of the person registering with us
- Email for this registration (the email can be a specific person's email or a generic email such as lmsadmin@myinstitution.edu)
- After registering, you will receive an email from SoftChalk with information to enter into your Jenzabar system (see the steps below).
- Log into your Jenzabar administrator account.
- Select LTI Management at the top of your screen (see below).
- Under Learning Tools Portlet, click Add another tool to this page (see below).
- Click Add a new learning tool (see below).
- Under Basic tool info, enter SoftChalk Cloud in the Name section, select SoftChalk from the Category dropdown, and type in a Description of your tool (if you choose) (see below).
- Under Connection information, in the Location section type in https://www.softchalkcloud.com (see below).
- Under Connection information, enter the Key and Secret/Password that you received when you registered (see Registering with SoftChalk) (see below).
- Under Tool display, select Show the tool within the JICS page (see below).
- Click Save your new tool (see below).
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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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Your students can print certificates of their scores and/or your students can email you within the lesson to send their scores. The basic steps are:
- Create scored quiz questions and/or activities within your SoftChalk lesson and assign points via the Options tab for each quiz question or activity.
- Add the email feature within your SoftChalk lesson. For SoftChalk 7 users, choose File/Package Lesson. (For SoftChalk 6 users, choose Properties/Lesson Reporting.) Make the appropriate selections under Student Options.
- On the last page of your lesson within the web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari), is an area for students to type their name or identifier and then click Email Score, Print Certificate and/or Print Score Summary. (You can preview your lesson on your local computer to see how this works.)
With the email option, you will get an email from each student for each attempt the student made for the lesson. As mentioned previously, we recommend the use of the ScoreCenter feature as you won't have to manage individual emails.
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Within SoftChalk, you can package a lesson in a common cartridge format. Then upload this common cartridge file into Jenzabar and upload it. See the steps below.
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- Within your lesson in SoftChalk Create, choose File/Package Lesson. Under Package type, choose Common Cartridge. Under Track score using choose None (see below). (We've tested using the Common Cartridge version 1.0, the other versions may work, but we haven't tested those versions.)
Within your lesson in SoftChalk 6 or lower, choose File/Package Lesson/Common Cartridge Format. (If this option is disabled, then save your lesson or open a lesson.)
- Your packaged file has your lesson name with a .zip extension. With SoftChalk Create, your .zip file is saved by default to your Documents area. With earlier versions of SoftChalk, the .zip file is saved within the lesson folder. (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.) Notice the eye_anatomy_cc1-0.zip file in the image below.
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After packaging your lesson within SoftChalk (see the previous section), then you're ready to upload the lesson zip file into Jenzabar.
- Login to Jenzabar.
- Select your My Courses tab at the top of your screen (see below).
- Select your course (see below).
- Select the page. (If you need to create a page, see Adding a Page below.)
- Select Edit page (see below).
- Select the Content tab (see below).
- Select Add a portlet (see below).
- Select Bookmarks and Course Content Import and click Add Portlets to page (see below).
- If you choose, you can rename the portlets by clicking the pencil button next to it (see below).
- Navigate back to the main menu for the page (see below).
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- Click Browse (see below).
- Select the common cartridge package (see below).
- Click Upload (see below). This may take several minutes.
- Click the Manage Content link (see below).
- Select the checkbox for the lesson name (index.html). (See below).
- Below the lesson files, find the section for "Integrate Content Into:" Select your Page, choose Bookmarks for the Portlet, and select a Heading). (See below.)
- Click Process (see below).
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- When in the course, select Add a page on the left side bar.
- Name the page and click Create.
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- In SoftChalk, edit and save your lesson. Package the lesson (see the section In SoftChalk: Package a Lesson).
- In Jenzabar, delete your lesson folder in the My Courses area.
- Upload your lesson again (see the section In Jenzabar: Upload a Zip File.)
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