Blackboard Administrator Guide
Updated February 28, 2018
Contents
Introduction
LTI Integration with SoftChalk Cloud
Instructions for Enabling the LTI Feature
Advantages of SoftChalk Cloud
Install the SoftChalk Publish with ScoreCenter Building Block
Download the Building Block
Blackboard 9.1 SP8 (Service Pack 8) or Higher
Change from an http server to an https Server
Faculty Guides and Student Guide
Checklists
Previous Building Block
Troubleshooting Checklist
Help
Copyright Information

h1.

Introduction
This guide is for Blackboard administrators whose institutions are using the DESKTOP VERSION of SoftChalk Create. The URL for this guide is below. As we update this guide, the URL will remain the same.
https://softchalk.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/199721074/lms_bbadminguide.pdf?api=v2
(Please note that we have separate guides for faculty and students – see the section Faculty Guides and Student Guide.) If you have any questions for us, please feel free to email us at help@softchalk.com. Please identify yourself as a Blackboard administrator, so that we can give your request top priority in our help queue.
IMPORTANT: If you have some faculty using SoftChalk Cloud accounts and some faculty still using the desktop version of SoftChalk, you can enable BOTH the LTI feature in Blackboard and install our SoftChalk Publish with ScoreCenter building block.

LTI Integration with SoftChalk Cloud

Instructions for Enabling the LTI Feature

If you have faculty using SoftChalk Cloud accounts, then we recommend that you enable the LTI feature within your Blackboard server.
Details for enabling the LTI feature are found in the Blackboard and SoftChalk Cloud Integration Guide under the Blackboard Administrator section.
Once you enable the LTI feature, your faculty can easily paste in an LTI link for their SoftChalk Cloud lesson and the grades will go into the Blackboard Results Center. If you're unfamiliar with SoftChalk Cloud, we wanted to let you know about the following advantages of using SoftChalk Cloud accounts for you and your faculty.

Advantages of SoftChalk Cloud

• Since our SoftChalk Create content authoring program is part of your SoftChalk Cloud account, you can work on your lessons from anywhere by logging into your SoftChalk Cloud account. No more "lost lessons" as you can save your lessons to your Cloud account. (You can also save your lessons to your local computer if you wish.)

• Getting updates for SoftChalk Create is easy. (You don't have to worry about administrator rights to get updates.)

• Update your lesson once in your SoftChalk Cloud account but link to it in all your courses. For example, if you are using the same SoftChalk lesson in multiple courses or multiple learning management systems, you can put the link of the lesson from SoftChalk Cloud into your courses.

• Have student grades integrate with your Blackboard Results Center. Copy and paste the LTI link into Blackboard – for details, see the previously mentioned Blackboard and SoftChalk Cloud Integration Guide.

• Save up to five versions of the same lesson in case you need to go back to a previous version of a lesson.

• Collaborate with other instructors on SoftChalk lessons.

• There is also the option to have an Enterprise SoftChalk Cloud set up for your institution.

• For more details about using SoftChalk Cloud, please see the SoftChalk

  Cloud Guide and the previously mentioned Blackboard and SoftChalk
  Cloud Integration Guide.

• Also please feel free to contact sales@softchalk if you would like to set up a private demo of SoftChalk Cloud.

Install the SoftChalk Publish with ScoreCenter Building Block

If you have faculty using the desktop version of SoftChalk, we recommend that you install our SoftChalk Publish with ScoreCenter Building block (see below).
The SoftChalk Publish with ScoreCenter building block will allow your faculty to save content from within SoftChalk to your Blackboard server.
To find the latest version of our building block, see the FAQ I am a Blackboard Administrator. What is the latest version for the SoftChalk Publish with ScoreCenter building block?
This building block contains the ScoreCenter feature that allows your faculty to collect reliable, detailed student scores in the Blackboard Results Center. We strongly recommend that your faculty use the ScoreCenter format for publishing lessons into Blackboard rather than SCORM. We do NOT recommend using the SCORM format as as we have seen many issues and inconsistencies with score reporting, especially in later service packs.
Below are the basic steps for using SoftChalk with Blackboard:

• Install the building block mentioned below.

• Within the SoftChalk Create DESKTOP application, a faculty member enters an access code to authenticate his/her connection to Blackboard. (For details, see the Blackboard Integration Guide for SoftChalk Desktop Users.)

• Within the SoftChalk application, faculty can save content directly to Blackboard in a few easy steps (see the section Faculty Guides and Student Guide)

Download the Building Block

If you haven't done so already, please go to the following page to register and download your SoftChalk Publish with ScoreCenter Building Block:
[ http://softchalkcloud.com/services/registration/blackboard