SoftChalk

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With SoftChalk LessonBuilder, you can create interactive content without knowing any HTML, or programming. You can create:

 

• interactive learning games, including customizable flashcards, image labeling, image hotspot activities, matching games, crosswords and more.
• six question types: multiple choice, multiple answer (more than one correct answer), short answer, true/false, matching, and ordering.
• pop-up text annotations to define terminology, or enhance the interactivity of your lesson content.

Online Demos

• Register for Online Demos
   

Sample Lessons

• Healthy/Medicine
• Science
• History
• ESL – English as a Second Language
• Language Learning
• Mathematics
   

SoftChalk Lesson Challenge Winners

• Best K-12 Lesson
  Title: Mendelian Genetics
  Author: Duke University TIP
  Link: http://www.softchalk.com/lessonchallenge/lesson/genetics/index.html
   
• Best Undergraduate Lesson
  Title: The Lymphatic and Immune Systems
  Author: Jacqueline C. McNair, Baltimore Community College
  Link: http://www.softchalk.com/lessonchallenge/lesson/ImmuneSystems/index.html
  
• Best Graduate (Professional Studies/Training) Lesson
  Title: Health and Wellness for Your Computer
  Author: Suzanne McGinnis and Elizabeth Miles, VCU School of Nursing
  Link: http://www.softchalk.com/lessonchallenge/lesson/health/index.html
  

How Do I Get This Software?

Due to a limited number of licenses, this software is available to Online Faculty only.  To get a 30-day free trial of SoftChalk, go to http://www.softchalk.com/lb_trial.html and download the software.  Please wait until you are ready to use SoftChalk before downloading it since the 30-day trial starts from that day.  If you decide that SoftChalk is right for your course, you must submit a request for a permanent license to the Distance Learning Office. 

Quick Start Guides

• Basic Text Editing
• Add Images
• Add Audio/Video/Media
• Add a Style
• Preview a Lesson
• Annotate Text
• Interactive Self-Check Questions
• Learning Games and Activities
• Print Friendly HTML
• Package a Lesson
   

User Manual

• User Guide
  
  

Online Workshops

Upcoming Events

• Short Course: Introduction to SoftChalk - This is a one-hour course that will introduce the many features of SoftChalk. 
• Short Course: TextPoppers, Images and Hyperlinks in LessonBuilder -  In this one-hour course you will learn how to insert and modify pop up text annotations. You will also learn how to insert, optimize and modify images within a lesson page and within a text popper and create and modify hyperlinks on a lesson page and within a text popper. 
• Short Course: Navigation Features in LessonBuilder  - In this one-hour course you will learn how to make a topic part of the navigation, how to change the appearance of the on-page navigation, create a table of contents, and create new pages. You will also see how to create a scenario driven navigation lesson.
  
  

Webinar: Archived Innovators Series

• Archives of “Innovators Online Webinar Series”
   

Technical Support

• System Specifications
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Online Help
• Still Need Help? - Contact eLearning Services
   
  
  

  Other Resources

• Case Studies
  
  
  

 

 

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