2. Overview: Create (New Version)
Enables educators to create, customize,
and personalize content by mixing and
modifying materials with media, interactive
exercises, quizzes and customized text.
The combination of rich personalized
content, embedded assessment,
interactivity, and immediate student
feedback increases student engagement
and improves learning outcomes.
3. Overview: Manage (New Version)
Host content in SoftChalk Cloud where you
are able to link content items to multiple
courses in multiple learning management
systems. When content changes are
necessary, make change once and all
courses are simultaneously updated.
Track student score results directly into
your Blackboard gradebook or into the
SoftChalk ScoreCenter.
4. Overview: Share (New Version)
The repository and work group features of
SoftChalk Cloud support community
sharing, team-based development, and
content management. This results in better
quality course content, reduced time and
effort, and reduced cost of learning
materials for students.
5. Use The Application To
Insert quizzes
throughout lectures
materials in formats such
as:
• Multiple choice
• Multiple answer
• Matching
6. Use The Application To
Insert pop-up
annotations to:
• Define terminology
• Enhance the
interactivity of content
7. Use The Application To
Create you own
interactive electronic
textbook that links to
other sites that:
• Provides related
content
• Illustrates topics
• Demonstrates
concepts
8. Pros and Cons
Pros
• Lessons easy to
create
• Has a professional
look
• Lessons easy to
navigate
• Multisensory with
audio and video
• On-line training
demo’s available
Cons
• Developer unable to
see lesson until
viewed in a browser
• Difficulty
distinguishing files
due to programs file
naming system
• Expensive
9. Best Practices
• Keep lessons short- no more than 15
minutes long.
• Use the right technology, for example
stream videos versus uploading them.
• Use multimedia such as pictures,
animations, text in graphic forms.
• Launch each SoftChalk lesson in a new
window.
10. More Best Practices
• Inform students that the Crossword
Activity can only be used in Internet
Explorer.
• For mobile device users-
– Use the Automatic Mobile Formatting
feature in SoftChalk 7. Avoid using
flash based content-not supported by
many Apple devices, iPhones and
iPads