Wooclap integrates with Blackboard via the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) 1.3 standard. Once the integration is installed, it is added to your list of available tools and allows you to create and present a Wooclap event, along with all of its features, from within your Blackboard instance.
Our LTI 1.3 integration is available for Wooclap users with a Campus or Corporate licence.
Install the LTI 1.3 integration
To use the LTI integration, you will need Wooclap access keys. Your institution's LMS administrator can request these through your organization's Customer Success Manager. They will also be able to guide the administrator in installing the required keys.
Are you your organization's LMS administrator? You can find our setup guide here.
☝️ If you wish to install the plugin on multiple Blackboard instances (e.g., staging server and production server), each instance must have its own set of keys to avoid any unintended behaviour.
Add a Wooclap event to your course
To add a Wooclap event to your course, log in to Blackboard and choose the course in which you would like to add a Wooclap activity. Then, click on the plus sign + in the module of your choice (1) and select Content Market (2).
Once you access the Content Market, choose your Wooclap instance. You will be asked to link a resource: this can be creating an event from scratch, choosing a duplicated event, or a template.
Create from scratch
Create from scratch
First, select Create from scratch and click on Continue. Then, give your new event a title and select whether to record live attendance and customize your grades. If you enable either setting, you can choose which grades to synchronize and set up automatic syncing. You can also configure or update these options later. To learn more, see the following chapter: Synchronize results, attendance, and participation.
Once your duplicated event is created, go back to your course or module and select the created activity. You will then be able to edit your course and add questions.
You can then edit your course from Blackboard (through your module) or from Wooclap. Note that you will need to present your event from Blackboard to later synchronize grades.
Duplicate an existing event
Duplicate an existing event
Once you have added your new assignment, select Duplicate an existing event. Choose the event you wish to duplicate and click on Confirm choice. Give your new event a title and select whether to record live attendance and customize your grades. If you enable either setting, you can choose which grades to synchronize and set up automatic syncing. You can also configure or update these options later. To learn more, see the following chapter: Synchronize results, attendance, and participation.
Once you click on Save, you will go back to your module and see all activities linked to it. By selecting your new activity, you can edit it from Blackboard (through your module) or from Wooclap. Note that this duplicated event will have a different code than the original one. Additionally, you will need to present your event from Blackboard to later synchronize grades.
Choose a template
Choose a template
You can also choose to import a template to present your event through Blackboard. To do this, once you have added your new assignment, select Choose a template. Click on Continue and choose or search for your template - whether from your organization or a public one. Once you have selected your template, click on Confirm choice.
Give your event a name and select whether to record live attendance and customize your grades. If you enable either setting, you can choose which grades to synchronize and set up automatic syncing. You can also configure or update these options later. To learn more, see the following chapter: Synchronize results, attendance, and participation.
Once you click on Save, you will go back to your module and see all activities linked to it. By selecting your new activity, you can edit it from Blackboard (through your module) or from Wooclap. Note that this duplicated event will have a different code than the original one. Additionally, you will need to present your event from Blackboard to later synchronize grades.
Authentication through an LMS
When you edit and present your event through an LMS, the correct authentication method (LMS login) is automatically and permanently activated to seamlessly synchronize the Wooclap event with your Blackboard gradebook.
Because this setting is mandatory for integration and grade synchronization, it cannot be deactivated or modified while accessing your event through the LMS.
This has the added advantage of restricting students' access to the activity. By activating the LMS authentication, only students in your course will be able to participate in the activity.
☝️ Results, attendance, and participation synchronisation only work for participants who are connected to the event via their Blackboard account. If you activate other authentication methods, you will not be able to synchronize grades for participants not authenticated through their Blackboard account.
Automatically sync LMS enrolments
You can automatically collect the list of students enrolled in your LMS course to sync them with your attendance sheet. Further, you can restrict access to your Wooclap event to participants enrolled in your class.
☝️ This restriction only works for participants whose email address matches the one recorded in your LMS roster.
To sync the list of enrolled students, in your LMS, go to the settings of your event and activate Restrict access to roster under Authentication. You will see the list of enrolled participants in the Gradebook.
☝️ Note that SSO authentication must be enabled to activate the roster restriction. Roster restriction cannot be guaranteed while Email & Social authentication is enabled.
If a participant joins late or could not attend the class, you can excuse them from attendance checks prior to their start date or time. In your event's report, open the Attendance Sheet, find the participant, click the pencil icon next to the missed check, and update their status to Excused. Their absence will not be counted in the session's participation grade.
Present your Wooclap event through Blackboard
To present your Wooclap event, click on the event you have created in Blackboard. You will be redirected to your event. Then, click on Display (1) or Start event (2), as you would for an event presented directly from Wooclap.
When entering the event, participants will be automatically redirected to Blackboard if they are already connected. Otherwise, they can connect to the event directly through the event itself or through Blackboard by selecting the Wooclap event in the corresponding course.
Synchronize results, attendance, and participation
☝️ Be aware that you need to activate LMS authentication for your event for the grades to be synchronized. Note that the attendance sheet is not an authentication method and will not let you synchronize grades.
When you handle most of your sessions with a Learning Management System (LMS), it can be very useful to find the results of your Wooclap events there, too. Before synchronising your grades, however, you first need to decide what grade(s) you want to synchronise. Wooclap distinguishes 3 distinct grades:
Results are the points acquired based on the correctness of the answer. This is what we call a score in Wooclap. In Blackboard, this is converted into a percentage. Questions without a right answer (such as an Open question or a Word cloud) are not taken into account when calculating the results.
Attendance is only available if the attendance sheet is activated. Points are granted once the learner has signed the attendance sheet. The participant will have 100% if they confirmed each attendance check and 0% if they did not confirm any attendance check.
Participation is scored based on the number of questions the participant answered compared to the total number of questions requiring an answer. This score is converted into a percentage in your LMS environment.
Customising grades
First, choose whether to synchronise results, attendance, or participation. You can also choose to synchronise all three and specify the proportions.
To do so, first go into your event's ⚙️ Settings and choose Grading. Here, click on Configure. You will then be able to choose Score, Participation, Attendance (if the Attendance sheet is activated), or Combined Grade.
If you choose Combined Grade, you will be able to set how much the different grades count in the final total grade. If you wish for one of them to not be counted in the final grade, leave 0% for that grade.
Do not forget to click on Confirm once you have made your choice. You will see what grade will be synced in the Grading section of your Settings.
Synchronising grades
☝️ Automatic grade synchronization, as covered in this section, is turned off by default for every account. If your organization wants this feature enabled by default for all members, contact your Customer Success Manager.
By default, you can synchronize your grade(s) by clicking on the checkmark ☑️ in the banner displayed at the top of the interface.
You can choose for grades to be synchronized automatically after your session. To do so, go to your event's ⚙️ Settings and go to Grading. There, toggle the option Synch grades automatically.
When this option is activated, grades are synchronised with your LMS when you reach the end-of-session screen, or 2 hours after the last answer was received in your event. It will synchronize a second time and replace the current grade if you continue your event later.
Grades for self-paced sessions will be synchronized as soon as a participant completes their questionnaires.
☝️ Even with automatic synchronization activated, you can still synchronize grades manually. To do so, click on the checkmark ☑️ in the banner displayed at the top of the interface.
The synchronized grades are then available under Gradebook. Note that questions without correct answers are not taken into account (Open question, Word Cloud, …).
Collaborating on a Wooclap event
You can add collaborators to your Wooclap event, just like you would in an event created through Wooclap.
☝️ Note that if you have collaborators linked to your Blackboard course, these will automatically be collaborators to any Wooclap assignment in your course.
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