SoftChalk Cloud Reviews

Softchalk Cloud lessons integrate easily with our Learning Management System, and they allow interactive, self-grading activities to engage students with the content. The lessons are extremely customizable and easy to develop for most faculty.

There are times when Softchalk Cloud formatting can be glitchy. There have been times when content has been lost when the desktop editor freezes between times it is saved. There are times when it is necessary to code in HTML in order to make necessary formatting changes, and many faculty do not have that knowledge or ability.

Be sure to make use of the Softchalk Cloud Tutorials included on their website. They are excellent and some of the most thorough tutorials of any company I have seen in the field of education.

A problem with developing online content is finding engaging, interactive learning activities to go along with the subject matter. Softchalk has a large variety of activities, such as quizzes, crossword puzzles, matching activities, and others that are customizable to the content.

You can embed just in time learning so students practice over time and learn repetitively through remediation. You can create an interactive journey of knowledge.

The formatting is finicky and it often creates unwanted areas based on html code. If you do not know coding it is difficult to create an aesthetically pleasing form.

Make sure you review ADA compliance and how to ensure that your formatting in softchalk is not affected by unseen code (HTML)

Create engaging activities to help students and teachers interact with content in a meaningful way.

Gamification of content

Embedding content when it is useful so it is a click away and not a search away.

I most appreciate that SoftChalk Cloud allows me to create lessons and other content that includes interactive features, the ability to easily add multi-media, and focuses on usability and accessibility throughout. If you know how to work in a basic word-processing program, creating great-looking lessons or content in SoftChalk requires a very small learning curve. I also like that I can use the Cloud feature as an LOR and link my content into multiple places in our LMS or point users directly to a lesson or web resource by providing the URL without having to go through the LMS or hosted web site.

I appreciate being able to create page names for ease of navigation but wish that it would be possible for the page names to be more than 7 characters long. Sometimes 7 characters just isn't enough to have a descriptive page name that makes sense.

Using SoftChalk Cloud makes it possible to create web-based help resources that can be linked to directly rather than having to embed the resource into an LMS or other hosted site.

Excellent service and support, the ease with which users are able to navigate the system and access content. The smoothness of the interface, its clean look and overall good UX.

The rare outage, though they're so infrequent as to be almost nonexistent.

Connect with other users considering a cloud-based course design solution. Take advantage of SoftChalk's resources, review the case studies and take a look at the testimonials. Attend information sessions and visit company representatives at meetings, conferences and other events where they display.

We sought to leverage our existing subscribers to attend targeted information sessions leading up to one of our national events. SoftChalk partnered with us every step of the way to ensure a seamless experience. We saw an increase in positive impressions and improved relationships with attendees.

We are able to maintain consistency across our professional development workshops and courses by using SoftChalk Cloud for our lessons. When we update one lesson, all sessions are updated.

There is not much to dislike about SoftChalk Cloud. The Creative Commons licensing features are not useful when all content is copyrighted, but the "CC" licensing can be turned off. The linear construction doesn't allow for "branching" but there are work-arounds for being able to structure lessons to branch in different directions.

SoftChalk Cloud provides a centralized repository for our lessons. We've been very happy with the ease of getting up to speed and the support provided by the cracker jack support team at SoftChalk!

We are solving the problem of having to manage updates across many individual sessions that are short in duration by using SoftChalk Cloud which has increased efficiency and brings our participants the latest information in a timely fashion.

It is easy to access for the students. The students have interactive activities and quizzes to practice and the instructor receives immediate feedback. You can also upload a video within your lesson and ask questions about the video using the quizzes.

There is not anything to dislike with SoftChalk Cloud.

As an educator one can use SoftChalk Cloud in a variety of ways. You can organize your lessons and present them in class. You can use the lessons as tutorials for the students. You can use the quizzes and activities as assessments with immediate feedback. As a SoftChalk Cloud user you can look through all the other lessons that have been submitted and use them as needed.

As a teacher I use SoftChalk Cloud for professional development. I have received the benefits of being recognized as a SoftChalk user, and I do presentations to introduce others to SoftChalk Cloud.

Ease of use and built in accessibility features.

That it is more promoted for K-12 instruction instead of higher education. Not many in higher education are familiar with it.

In the past I have created Entire courses in SC. Easy to incorporate accessibility and to post on LMS or link to website.

SoftChalk Cloud allows me to create lessons that have clean lines and are easy for students to follow. It is user friendly for both my production purposes and for students engaging with the final product. I like that it doesn't look clunky and my students can come in, get the info they need, and be able to move on to complete the assessments for what they have learned. It is streamlined and the product is really made with both the teacher and student in mind. It even integrates into other Learning Management Systems like Canvas.

I don't see a downside to using SoftChalk Cloud, nothing to do with this product has inhibited anything in my courses or effectiveness in teaching and learning.

If you want an easy way to publish content online, this is a great program for that.

I'm finding ways to connect with my students and deliver learning resources.

Softchalk is so easy to use. You can create online courses in less than 30mins. When you load them to the Softchalk cloud you can deliver to any LMS using the cloud links. It is a very flexible way of delivering materials online in many different ways including ebooks.

Although the product is great it looks a little dated in the way it looks and I look forward to a new look and feel in the future.

We have wanted a way to create and build learning materials outside our LMS so that we can deliver anywhere. Softchalk Cloud delivery allows this function with revisions and auto backup so materials are not lost. There is also a private cloud option if you require a very secure delivery.

The fact that faculty can edit from anywhere an ALL places where the module exists is updated is a plus. With multiple sections of a class this feature is crucial to quick updates. I also like the widget feature. In particular the timeline widget and Quick self checks. These are extremely helpful. Being able to embed a video and then stop to self check can be helpful for a student to make sure they understand the concept prior to continuing on with the lesson. The quick and easy interface seems easy to use and learn. We trained about 4 faculty who were interested in using it. it went well and they said it wasn't too hard to use.

The only thing we had issues with was the LTI integration with Moodle. We did struggle a bit with getting that to work on our new fall server. Once we went through the help materials in more depth and looked at our settings we were able to get it up and running smoothly. The quizzing feature took a bi to get to go into the gradebook, but we eventually got it to work.

Make sure if you plan to use LTI integration that you have the proper support information.

The problem we are solving is how to interact and create lessons for students that are easy to update, interactive, and easily integrate within our systems. We want to do more flipped classroom and blended learning environments. Softchalk seems to be a good solution for faculty who want to see how their students progress and to create self-contained lessons for students to view OUTSIDE class and then they come into class and actually engage more in depth wit the content as a class. So far we are in the early stages and have not gauged any measurable benefits yet. After this fall semester we will be able to get some feedback from our faculty who are using it.