DigitalChalk eLearning

JUNE 25, 2015

A learning management system (LMS) can be used several different ways, depending on what your needs are. That means you have online courses that are hosted within the LMS platform and then sold to customers. So, how can you increase your course sales? One of the common uses is for eCommerce sales.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Rapid eLearning is the process of designing and developing online learning courses quickly. Instead of spending months building a course, rapid eLearning allows you to build modules and content in just weeks, or even days. The course content is then uploaded into an eLearning platform or learning management system (LMS).

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DigitalChalk eLearning

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Although many people can create online courses, creating an effective course can be much more difficult. An effective online course requires time, effort, and high quality content. We have compiled a short list of tips to help you create an effective eLearning course, no matter what industry you are in. Communicate goals.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Previewing your course should always be an easy task no matter what LMS you have. This is an important step in the course creation process to help you better understand it will be like. DigitalChalk helps you with this by giving you the ability to preview your course. How do I preview a whole course?

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JANUARY 26, 2015

Logging in for the first time after getting your account setup can be an exciting process – We want to keep the excitement rolling by showing you how easy it is to start the course creation process. Starting the Course Creation Process: To begin, you want to make sure to have selected the “Manage Courses” tab.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

There are many things you can do to help proofread and edit your course a little easier – here are 6 great tips. Well, you can create a custom checklist including overall course design tasks, as well as a list of common writing mistakes you may make. Is all of your content within your course? Is your course interactive?

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DigitalChalk eLearning

AUGUST 8, 2013

Many instructors likely have more than one course online, and can often spend months building it before it goes live – only to start the next. So, what do you do when you need to go back and update an old course ? Your courses should always sound current, not like they are stuck in the past. Speak in the present.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JULY 20, 2015

Curious as to how long students spend taking your course, or maybe just the elements within your course? DigitalChalk allows you to easily review time spent on a course by a student with just a few clicks. Along with how long they’ve spent on the course it will also show how many elements they have completed in the course.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JULY 16, 2015

Many of the LMS systems out there are SCORM compliant, meaning they accept the file and their system can run it. When courses are created in the LMS system directly, that does not mean they are now in SCORM compliance. Why would somebody choose a SCORM creation rather than just create within the LMS?

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JULY 25, 2014

Any course element completed. Any course element published. Course admins. There are two different areas on the DigitalChalk learning management system where you can create a notification, under the Administration tab and under an individual course offering. Select the “Manage Courses” tab.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JULY 21, 2014

The web archive element on the DigitalChalk learning management system is an element that can be used in a handful of different ways to present a wide array of information to your students. Web archives are ideal when a survey is needed within the course. Tips and Tricks Learning Management System'

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DigitalChalk eLearning

APRIL 18, 2016

We’ve gone over how to copy a course, or course elements in a previous post, but did you know that you can also copy an offering ? The steps to copy an offering are very similar to copying a course, or element, it’s just all done under the ‘Offerings’ section. Select ‘Offerings’ from the left side menu.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

MAY 7, 2015

In a recent survey to our DigitalChalk administrators, we asked a few questions about our LMS and their marketing efforts. Nearly 40% of respondents say would like to learn more about marketing your online courses and over 25% said they are not currently marketing their course at all. The results were surprising.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JULY 28, 2014

Innovative enhancements to several of the platform’s most popular features make creating and serving custom courses easier than ever. The most anticipated system update is the Advanced PowerPoint Converter , which offers unparalleled ease in converting PowerPoint presentations into robust online courses.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Did you know that DigitalChalk gives you the option to choose how the elements will be delivered to your students for each course? You can choose any option you need to cover any needs, or wants, you have when it comes to how a student can go through your course content. Want to learn more about the DigitalChalk e-learning platform?

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DigitalChalk eLearning

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Course commenting is a great feature for online educators to use to easily interact with their students in a direct way within DigitalChalk. To make course commenting available to your students you will want to enable it when creating the offering (you can also go in at any time and turn commenting off/on).

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DigitalChalk eLearning

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

If you have manually added users to your organization you may have noticed that there is a course administrator role option for you to select and wondered what access it gives to users if assigned. What do course administrators have access to? Create course elements. What is course authoring? Monitor student progress.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JUNE 20, 2016

Did you know that you can edit offerings from the manage courses view? Editing from this view lets you see the full list of offerings that you have created for the course and lets you easily make changes to a specific offering or make changes to all of them at once. Go to the ‘Manage Courses’ tab.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

AUGUST 10, 2015

Wondering why you aren’t seeing any of your elements when previewing your course, or even after you’ve created a course offering ? To activate the elements you will want to: Go to the ‘Manage Courses’ tab. Click on the title of the course and you will have two different ways to activate the element(s).

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DigitalChalk eLearning

APRIL 23, 2015

Do you sell or create courses and/or training online? If yes, then chances are you are using a learning management system (LMS) to do so. An LMS is a great tool for delivering your online content and well as tracking, reporting, and administering. See the results below. How Does DigitalChalk Fit In?

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DigitalChalk eLearning

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

There are many things you can do to help proofread and edit your course a little easier – here are 6 great tips. Well, you can create a custom checklist including overall course design tasks, as well as a list of common writing mistakes you may make. Is all of your content within your course? Is your course interactive?

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JULY 6, 2015

With every course you have the option to set up the course completion settings a few ways. You can choose from: No, students may begin this course, but not complete at this time. Yes, students may complete this course. Yes, students may complete this course…. 2 and support@digitalchalk.com.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JUNE 1, 2015

“Our innovative ILT feature provides the instructors the ability to create a blended learning environment directly within their DigitalChalk online course”, says Chief Executive Officer, Russ Stinehour. “We Just like any other course element within the system, the ILT feature is meant to be easy-to-use and customizable.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JULY 27, 2015

DigitalChalk understands that it can be a necessity for some organizations to have prerequisites in place that people need to meet in order to take the course. If you want the users to automatically be registered for a course, or courses, you can use the Registration feature to create a rule with certain prerequisites that need to be met.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

AUGUST 3, 2015

This feature allows you to select which courses users can and can’t see in the catalog, and so this is great for limiting what the user can register for. Setting up prerequisites for your courses puts you in control of who can take what courses seamlessly, and DigitalChalk lets you do that quickly and easily.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JUNE 12, 2014

It is the entire process of analysis of learning needs and goals and the development of a delivery system to meet those needs. Simply put, instructional design is the process of designing, developing, and delivering eLearning and online learning courses. Measure the effectiveness of those learning activities.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

AUGUST 24, 2015

There is an easy way to add images to your course bulletin. Want to learn more about the DigitalChalk e-learning platform? The post How to Add Images to Your Course Bulletin appeared first on. With our bulletins feature you can easily relay important information to your students on the Dashboard or login page.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

APRIL 2, 2015

Gamification means using the principles of game design in another context; for example, a training program or an e-Learning course. An e-Learning course that has been gamified will include elements such as challenges, rewards, and repeated attempts. How can a video help gamify my e-Learning course?

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2014

With the evolvement of technology over the years, it has become more feasible for eLearning professionals to use videos in their online courses. Of course, using videos in eLearning has its pros and cons. Deciding whether or not you use video in your course depends on many factors, including time, budget, and subject matter.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The Instructor Gradebook tab offers some added features that allows you, as the organization administrator, to look at student information for specific course offerings. You can easily pull information for a specific course using the export feature in the instructor gradebook. Exporting student information.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

MARCH 23, 2015

All you need to do to click on the 3 horizontal bars to the left of the element title and drag to the spot in the course you would like it to be and you are all set. You can also custom arrange how the courses are viewed in the users catalog – check out this blog post to see how to do that. Call us at 877-321-2451 opt.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Begin by: Going to the ‘Manage Courses’ tab. From an existing course, click ‘Manage Course Elements’. Once you are done adding survey questions click the ‘Back’ button in the upper right-hand corner to go back to the course elements. Bundling Courses 101. How do I create a survey?

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DigitalChalk eLearning

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Want to know what steps your students will have to take to register for a course? Adding the Course to their Cart. After they have created their account and logged in, they will need to add the course to their cart. To add the course to their cart, they will click the ‘Add to cart’ button. Checking Out.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JULY 24, 2014

Sometimes building online courses can be a little more difficult than it seems, so why not have one place you can go to find the resources and help you need? We have compiled a list of different resources and applications to help you build your courses quickly and easily. eLearning Tools Building Your Course E-Learning Tools'

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JULY 18, 2013

Either way, these are a few key factors to consider when building your online course. It can be easy to get distracted by your authoring tools or LMS platform with so many design and multimedia options available. Just take a moment to gather your thoughts and create a clear outline of your course. Course schedule.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JULY 25, 2014

A webhook is a feature in web development that allows the user to create a callback that can be triggered by an event (for example, a student commenting on a course can be an event that triggers the callback). Element published event: Receive a webhook callback when an element is activated into a course. The post What Is A Webhook?

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DigitalChalk eLearning

APRIL 13, 2015

DigitalChalk has added this field to allow you to create custom numbers to be generated for each student that completes the course. We know that depending on what kind of course you are presenting that it can be required to have this field generated and we’ve worked hard to make this available to you. Call us at 877-321-2451 opt.

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