Academic Resources and Moody Medical Library

1. Log into your SoftChalk Cloud account.
2. Click Create Lesson in SoftChalk Create.
3. When the lesson window appears, copy the text (and images) from the Word document and paste in the SoftChalk Create lesson window.
4. Save the lesson to SoftChalk Cloud.

1. In PowerPoint, open your presentation. Choose File > Save and Send and click Create Handouts > Create Handouts.
2. In the Send to Microsoft Word window, select Notes below slides and click OK. PowerPoint converts each slide to a jpg file and then automatically opens a Word document and places each of the slide image files into the Word document.
3. In Word, copy all of the text.
4. Log into your SoftChalk Cloud account.
5. Click Create Lesson in SoftChalk Create.
6. When the lesson window appears, paste in the SoftChalk Create lesson window. All of the slide images and notes will be pasted into your SoftChalk lesson for further editing and enhancement.
7. Save the lesson to SoftChalk Cloud.

1. Ensure the PDF is saved to your computer in a location such as My Documents.
2. In SoftChalk, type the text that your students will click to open the hyperlink (for instance, the name of the PDF article).
3. Highlight the text that will become the hyperlink.
4. Choose Insert > Hyperlink.
5. The Insert a Hyperlink dialog box will open.
6. Click Select File.
7. Browse to the PDF on your computer and select it. Then, click Open.
8. Click OK.
9. Save the lesson to SoftChalk Cloud. Once the lesson is saved to SoftChalk Cloud, your PDF will be hyperlinked in the lesson, and a copy of the PDF will be placed in your lesson folder.

1. Log into your SoftChalk Cloud account.
2. Click My Content > Create Content.
3. You may get a message about a file type (jnlp) that can harm your computer. Click Keep and then open the Oracle Java file.
4. The SoftChalk Create window will open and you can type your lesson within the window.
5. Use the menu and toolbar at the top of the window to format the text and insert images and activities.
6. Save the lesson to SoftChalk Cloud.

1. Log into your SoftChalk Cloud account.
2. Click My Content > My Lessons & Courses.
3. Click on the name of a lesson.
4. Scroll down to Lesson Actions, and click Download Lesson. Click Save and select the location in which you want to save the zipped lesson (on the Desktop, for example).
5. Once the download completes, click Close.
6. Log into your Blackboard account. At the top of your screen, click the Courses tab.
7. Within the Course List, click on your course to select it.
8. In the pane at the left, select Files and then click the name of your course in the list of files.
9. Create a folder into which you will place the SoftChalk lesson content. Click on the name of the folder, then click Upload > Upload Package.
10. Browse to the location in which you saved the zipped lesson, select it, and click Open.
11. Click Submit.
12. In the pane at the left, select Content near the top of the pane and then click Build Content > File.
13. Enter a Name for the file and then click Browse Course.
14. Click on the name of your course and in the resulting list of files, select the one titled "index.html," and click Submit.
15. Click Submit again to complete the process.

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