I received a reply from my contact at XYZ. I am not including his contact Info.
Hope this may help you.
Bill B.
There are two ways to enroll in a course, and it is one or
the other, not both.
* Scenario 1 - The course is not integrated. The
student goes to XYZ Homework website, logs in, enters Course ID to enroll
(you could put a link to XYZ Homework in your Moodle course, and list the
Course ID to mimic "single sign-on," as they would still go through
Moodle, the grades just wouldn't auto-transfer)
* Scenario 2 - The course is integrated. Students
are not given the course ID. Students enroll by clicking on the Moodle
link, which prompts them to log into their XYZ Homework course. Grades
auto-transfer
If a student enrolls with Scenario 1, and then you want to
integrate your course into Moodle two weeks into the course, you would want to
make a record of that student's grades (by downloading the gradebook in XYZ
Homework), then unenroll that student (unenrolling deletes all work, thus you
want to have a record of the grades before you unenroll the student), then
have the student enroll again by clicking on the Moodle link. We suggest
making all of your course edits, set all of your due dates, etc before
integrating, ideally, and never giving out the Course ID if you plan to
integrate (surprisingly, a number of Instructors miss this important fact,
integrate, and also give out the Course ID, which causes half of the class to
not enroll properly).
With Scenario 2, the student needs to click on the Moodle
links for the automatic grade transfer to work. For example, let's say a
month into a class that is integrated, a student wants to complete 3 homework
assignments, 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3. For 2.1, the student clicks on the Moodle
link, but for 2.2 & 2.3, the student does not click on the Moodle link, and
just goes directly to XYZ Homework. In this example, 2.1 would
automatically transfer grades, while 2.2 & 2.3 would not transfer (this is
a VERY common occurrence per my experience at Cengage, WebAssign, MobyMax, and
here).
I think you both already have this video I put in the Zoom
chat, but I will put it here as well. The 6:09 mark of this video is
where the hurdle is, with the blank screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejb69sQ72dI&feature=youtu.be
. Best case scenario, we get this working either today or Monday, you
still may have to occasionally manually transfer grades, per the paragraphs
above.
Lastly, if you use scenario 1, and never integrate, you can
always get the grades over to Moodle by exporting the gradebook, and importing
into Moodle.
