Hands-on Softchalk: Creating interactive online lessons

Bring Your Own Laptop (BYOL). In this hands-on workshop, you will learn the basics of Softchalk with instructional designer Elizabeth Viramontes-Merino. SoftChalk is a platform that enables faculty to develop interactive online lessons by combining multimedia (text, video and audio material) with interactive learning activities such as quizzes or visual sorting exercises. Moreover, learning activities on the Softchalk platform “communicate” with the Blackboard Gradebook: whatever scored activities students perform as part of the lesson will automatically appear in your course’s gradebook. Softchalk is very easy to use: you can author a lesson just like you author a Microsoft Word document; the application does the heavy lifting of “translating” your content into HTML and posting it on Blackboard.