This month What’s New in Wooclap is a short one, with two updates designed to work as a pair. Both are about what happens once your session is over, when results from Wooclap reach your LMS gradebook. The first lets you decide what that grade reflects. The second makes sure it gets there, without you having to think about it.
If you use Wooclap through your LMS, you stay in control: the score is the default grade, manual sync is available at any time, and every setting described below can be changed whenever you need, even after a session has run. These updates add options without taking any away.
Key Takeaways
Custom grades: Blend score, participation, and attendance into one tailored grade up to 100%.
Zero manual sync: Results reach your gradebook automatically at the end of each session.
Total flexibility: Modify rules retroactively or trigger a manual sync whenever you want.
Standard: Included for all LMS platforms connected via LTI 1.3.
Custom LMS Grade
When Wooclap results reach your gradebook, one question matters more than any other: what should this grade actually reflect? A single measure, such as the score, participation or attendance, answers part of that question. Custom LMS Grades lets you combine them into one grade that matches the way you assess.
When you create a Wooclap event from your LMS, the grade setup step offers a combined grade alongside score, participation and attendance. You decide how much each measure weighs, for example 60% score and 40% participation, and Wooclap checks as you go that the total always comes to 100%. Attendance can be part of the mix as long as the Attendance sheet is on.
The score is selected by default. And if an event isn't meant to be graded, you can skip the step entirely by unticking "Customize grades" when you create it.
Your choice isn't final either. You can change the grade rule at any time from the event settings, even after the session has run, and the new rule is applied to all existing results at the next sync.
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a grade tells learners what counts, and most sessions pursue more than one goal at once: getting everyone to take part, and checking what has been understood. A combined grade reflects both. Weight participation to encourage everyone to have a go, knowing a wrong answer is part of learning, while still accounting for correct answers. The grade follows the pedagogical intent of each session, in the proportions you choose.
For learners, that means one grade per event, which reflects what the session was designed for. For institutions and organizations with their own grading rules, it means Wooclap results can fit those rules as they are.
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Grades Auto-Sync
Grade Auto-Sync sends grades to your LMS gradebook after each session, with no manual step. Grades are sent at the right moment for each format:
- Live sessions: when you reach the end-of-session screen, or two hours after the last answer received, whichever comes first. If the event is launched again later, grades are synced again afterwards.
- Self-paced sessions: as soon as each learner completes the session, so the completion rules set up in your LMS can apply right away.
Grade Auto-Sync sends whichever grade you configured: score, participation, attendance or a combined grade. If you'd rather keep syncing yourself, simply untick "Sync grades automatically" when you create the event, or switch it off later from the event settings. The "Sync grades" button is available whenever you want to sync manually.
the gradebook reflects every session, with nothing to remember once it's over. Learners see their results while the session is still fresh, which is when feedback is most useful to them. In self-paced sessions, they can move on to the next step of their learning path without waiting for anyone to sync. And for instructors and trainers, it's one less thing to check, session after session.
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Better together
Each update works on its own, but they were built to go together: you decide once what a grade should reflect, and it reaches the gradebook after every session without a second thought. That's how the learning data from a live session becomes part of the record your LMS already keeps.
Both updates are rolling out during November, for every LMS connected to Wooclap through our LTI 1.3 integration. If your institution or organization uses an earlier LMS connection, your Wooclap contact can help you plan the move with your LMS administrator.
