Managing LMS Gradebook Columns and Deep Links for Perusal Assignments (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: The LMS Gradebook Column Management setting controls how perusal gradebook columns are managed in your LMS. You'll be prompted to choose an option when creating the course, but you can change your mind at any time by navigating to Settings, Scoring, LMS Grade Sync. If you select Perusal Creates Gradebook Columns in the LMS for each perusal assignment automatically, Perusal will automatically create a gradebook column in your LMS when you create an assignment in Perusal, and will sync the scores for that assignment to the automatically created gradebook column. Also, if you use Canvas, you'll see these represented as Canvas Assignment Links, which then provide a direct link for students to individual perusal assignments. If you prefer to manage your LMS gradebook on your own, choose the second option, titled Instructor Creates Deep Links in LMS. No perusal gradebook columns will appear in the LMS until deep links have been created. So with this option selected, Perusal will not create any gradebook columns automatically. Instead, you will create deep links to specific assignments in Perusal, and that will prompt us to create a gradebook column for that specific assignment in the LMS. To add a deep link, each LMS is slightly different, so feel free to skip to your specific LMS. So in Blackboard, you are going to navigate to your course, and then you're going to click on a content area. Then next, you're going to click Build Content, and you will select the Perusal Deep Link button. In Blackboard Ultra, you are going to go to your course, you're going to select a content area, you're next going to click the plus sign, and then you're going to click Content Market, and then you're just going to scroll down until you see the Perusal Deep Link button. Moving on to Desire2Learn or Brightspace, you're going to go to your course, again you're going to go to a content area, you're going to select Click Existing Activities, and then you'll scroll until you find the button titled Perusal Deep Link. In Moodle, you're going to go to your course, again go to a content area, turn on editing mode, next click Add Activity or Resource, and click Perusal Deep Link. Moving on to Canvas, you're going to go to your course, go to a content area, and you're going to click Add Assignment. Next you're going to say More Options, and the submission type, you will then click External Tool, and you will click again and find the Perusal link. And just to note with Canvas, normally when creating deep links, Perusal will also bring over the assignment instructions, but this may be undesirable when the instructor or learning designer has already set up instructions in the learning management system. So there is a check box, checked by default, in the deep link content selector, and it titles Import Assignment Instructions to LMS, and that can be unchecked to skip importing the instructions into Canvas. Again, if you have any questions, we're happy to help. You can reach out to us at support at perusal dot com, or click Get Help at the top of any page in Perusal. Our knowledge base also contains information on this and many other topics.