SoftChalk™
BrainHoney Integration Guide
Updated February 28, 2018

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 BrainHoney
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 BrainHoney
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 BrainHoney Gradebook
Non Scored Lessons (Cloud Users)
Edit a SoftChalk Cloud Lesson
Collaborate with Other Instructors on SoftChalk Lessons
BrainHoney Administrator
Desktop Users
Scored Lessons (Desktop Users) – SCORM 2004
Print or Email Scores
In SoftChalk: Package a Lesson for SCORM 2004
In BrainHoney: Upload a SCORM Zip file
View Grades from SCORM Lessons in the BrainHoney Gradebook
Non Scored Lessons (Desktop Users)
In SoftChalk: Package a Lesson
In BrainHoney: Upload a Zip File
Edit a Lesson NOT Saved to SoftChalk Cloud
Help
Copyright Information

Introduction

This guide covers linking to or uploading your SoftChalk lessons into the BrainHoney learning management system.

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.

SoftChalk Cloud

As mentioned in the previous table, SoftChal

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loud is an award-winning, multi-function platform that combines a learning object repository, content authoring and hosting and management features.
With a SoftCh

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loud account, you can:

• Create and update your content in one place by logging into your SoftChalk Cloud account whether you are at work or at home. (SoftChal

  k Create is part of your Cloud account.)

• 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

  Cloud
  Guide.

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

Volume Purchase or Purchase Order

To take advantage of volume purchasing (or if you plan to purchase a SoftChalk Cloud account with a purchase order), please contact sal

es@softchalk.com.

Enterprise SoftChalk Cloud

Your institution also has the option to purchase an Enterprise S

oftChalk Cloud. Please contact sales@s

oftchalk.com

Individual Purchase on the SoftChalk Cloud Website

Go to our SoftChalk C

loud website and click the Join Now button in the upper right part of the screen (see below) and select Account Type: Purchase Now. Fill out the information and submit your credit card information.

Trial SoftChalk Cloud Account

Try out a SoftChalk Cloud account for 30 days. Click the Join Now button (see above) and click Register for a Free 30-Day trial for SoftChalk Cloud link to fill out the form. You will receive an activation key via email.

SoftChalk Lessons in BrainHoney

If you are a SoftChalk Cloud user, see the section SoftChalk Cloud Users.
If you don't have a SoftChalk Cloud account and you are using the desktop version of SoftChalk, see the section Desktop Users.

If you are a BrainHoney administrator, see the section BrainHoney Administrator for instructions on enabling your LTI feature to work with SoftChalk Cloud. (The LTI feature allows an instructor to copy and paste an LTI link for his/her SoftChalk Cloud lesson and have the student scores for that lesson go directly into the BrainHoney gradebook.)

SoftChalk Cloud Users

Use a SoftChalk C

loud account to save your lesson in the Cloud (see the section SoftChalk Cloud). Then you will paste a link to this lesson in BrainHoney. You can update your content in SoftChalk Cloud and all your link(s) will reflect your changes. (You can link to the same lesson in multiple sections or courses.)
Before pasting a link to your lesson into BrainHoney, you will want to decide if you want to collect scores from your students or if you want your lessons to be "practice" lessons and you don't need to collect scores. (For each lesson you can decide whether or not to collect scores. Many instructors use both "scored" and "practice" lessons within a course.) For details on:

• Scored lessons, see the section Scored Lessons (Cloud Users). (While your preferred method would probably be to collect student scores in the BrainHoney 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).

Scored Lessons (Cloud Users)

ScoreCenter Overview

When you view your SoftChalk lesson scores within the BrainHoney 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 BrainHoney and you see the SoftChalk ScoreCenter interface but all the scores are also "plugged into" the BrainHoney gradebook. (In BrainHoney, students will also see their grades from SoftChalk lessons as well.)
IMPORTANT: To use the ScoreCenter feature, your BrainHoney administrator needs to configure your system to use this feature. See the section BrainHoney 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.

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 BrainHoney 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).

• 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 BrainHoney (see the section Paste the LTI Link into BrainHoney).

• 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.

Copy the LTI Link for a Lesson in SoftChalk Cloud

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

ud G

uide. IMPORTANT: As mentioned previously, be sure to copy the LTI Link and NOT the Hyperlink for the lesson.

Paste the LTI Link into BrainHoney

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

1. Within the Course Outline, click on the Add dropdown option and select Custom Activity (see below).

1. Enter a title for your lesson. Click on the Choose Website button (see below).

1. Paste in the LTI Link and then click Advanced… (see below).

1. Select the checkbox next to Digitally sign the request for LTI, then click OK. Then click OK in the window where you pasted in the LTI Link (see below).

1. To the right, under Grading scale (points), replace the 100 with the amount of points that your lesson is worth. Then click Done at the bottom of the screen (see below).

1. To preview your lesson, click on the lesson name and then select Preview (see below).

1. Click View Lesson at the top right side of the ScoreCenter attempts page to preview the lesson (see below).

1. Be sure to see the next section Set the Grading Method and Maximum Attempts.

Set the Grading Method and Maximum Attempts

You will need to set the grading method (i.e. first attempt, last attempt, average attempt or highest attempt) and the maximum 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 maximum 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.)

1. Log into your BrainHoney account and choose your course from the Courses menu. Click View underneath the course name.

2. At the left, click on the lesson name (see below).

1. 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).

1. At the SoftChalk ScoreCenter screen, click Change Maximum Attempts. Select the maximum attempts from the drop down menu and be sure to click Change Maximum Attempts (see below).

1. If you chose to open your lesson in a new window, you can click the X for the browser window to return to your course.

Preview the Lesson

To test out the lesson, you need to be logged into your course as a student.
IMPORTANT: Be sure to LOG OUT of your SoftCh

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

Cloud account while logged into BrainHoney and taking a lesson, then the scores won't be recorded.)

View or Change Scores

1. Log into your BrainHoney account and choose your course from the Courses menu. Click View underneath the course name.

2. At the left, click on the lesson name (see below).

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). As mentioned previously, IMPORTANT: Be sure to LOG OUT of your Soft

   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
   Cloud account while logged into BrainHoney and taking a lesson, then the scores won't be recorded.)

1. Notice you can view detailed information about this attempt at the bottom.

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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

Complete All Attempts for All Students for a Lesson

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.)

1. Log into your BrainHoney account and choose your course from the Courses menu. Click View underneath the course name.

2. At the left, click on the lesson name (see below).

1. Click Complete All Attempts and Complete All Attempts (see below).

Essays

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.

1. In SoftChalk

   Create, insert an essay (File/Insert/QuizPopper/Essay).

2. In SoftChalk C

   reate, you can assign points to the essay under the Options tab for the essay (File/Insert/QuizPopper/Essay). (Assigning points is optional.)

3. Remind your students to click Finish for each essay (see below).

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.)

View Grades from LTI Lessons in the BrainHoney Gradebook

If you go to the Gradebook area in BrainHoney, 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 BrainHoney and Set the Grading Method and Maximum Attempts) appear in your BrainHoney Gradebook. (If you want to view or change scores for individual student attempts, see the section View or Change Scores.)
IMPORTANT: As previously mentioned, be sure to LOG OUT of your Soft

C

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

lk

Cloud account while logged into BrainHoney and taking a lesson, then the scores won't be recorded.)

1. Log into your BrainHoney account. Under the course you want to check, choose Gradebook (see below).

1. Find the column for your lesson and you should see your students' grades appear. (You may have to scroll). (See below).

Non Scored Lessons (Cloud Users)

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).]

1. Save your SoftChalk lesson to your SoftChalk Cloud account. See the section Save a Lesson or Course to the Cloud in the SoftChalk
   Cloud Guide.

2. Copy the Hyperlink (NOT the LTI Link) for your lesson. See the section Copy the Hyperlink for Your Lesson in the SoftChalk Clou

   d Guide.

3. Log into your BrainHoney account and choose your course from the Courses menu. Click Syllabus underneath the course name (see below).

1. Within the Course Outline, click on the Add dropdown option and select File or Web Site (see below).

1. Enter a title for your lesson. Click on the Choose Website button (see below).

1. Paste in the hyperlink and then click OK (see below).

1. Click Done at the bottom right side of the screen (see below).

1. To preview your lesson, click on the lesson name and then select Preview (see below).

Edit a SoftChalk Cloud Lesson