If you cannot find an answer to a question below or within other Medical Language Lab Deep Link Integration support articles, regarding managing your integrated MLL assignments and/or setup as an instructor, please contact [email protected] for assistance.

 

Conversely, if a student has asked you a question about your integrated MLL setup, or reported an error they've encountered when using MLL, please direct your student to contact [email protected] for assistance. 

 

Using the inter-article links below, you can jump to a question you have regarding your integrated MLL assignments.

 

LMS COURSE MANAGEMENT

- What is "Deep Link" integration?

- How do I integrate MLL assignments into my LMS course?

- How do I edit the settings for my integrated MLL assignments?

- How do I set due dates for my integrated MLL assignments?

- Can I copy integrated MLL assignments from one LMS course to another?

 

ACCESS TROUBLESHOOTING

- Why is my student unable to access my integrated MLL assignments?

- Why aren't my student's grades writing back?

- How do I ensure MLL assignment grades automatically write-back to my LMS gradebook?

 

MLL CLASS MANAGEMENT

- How do I check student performance on integrated MLL assignments?

- Why did my student's grade change, when they went back to review an MLL assignment?

- How do I preview my integrated MLL assignments, to get a closer look at what my students are working on?

- Can multiple instructors manage a single integrated MLL class?

- Beyond Medical Language Lab, what resources are included with my textbook?

 

What is "Deep Link" integration?

• The key features of Deep Link-integrated MLL assignments are direct assignment links within your LMS course and automatic LMS gradebook write-back when integrated MLL assignments are completed.  
• Deep link integration inserts links to individual MLL assignments within your LMS course, so those integrated MLL assignments can be accessed via your LMS course like the rest of your LMS-located assignments. 
• Assuming students have launched them via your LMS course, your integrated MLL assignments will automatically write-back their grades to your LMS gradebook as students complete those assignments, so you won't have to manually enter grades to make MLL content part of your syllabus. 

 

How do I integrate MLL assignments into my LMS course?

• Before you integrate MLL assignments into your LMS course, you'll first need to confirm you've got an FADavis.com account with access to the necessary textbooks and resources. Please contact your program's Educational Consultant (EC) or Business Development Manager (BDM) to set up your FADavis.com account. If you're unsure who your EC or BDM is, ask your program's admin or course coordinator to identify your EC or BDM. 
• In addition to confirming with your EC or BDM that you've got an FADavis.com with the necessary resources, please confirm with your program's admin whether you will need to personally insert MLL assignments into your LMS course, whether your admin (or otherwise) will insert MLL assignments for you, or whether you'd be able to copy content from an LMS course with MLL assignments already inserted. 
• If your integrated MLL assignment links will be inserted into your LMS course for you, please consult our Instructor "Quick-start Guide" article for information on launching your integrated links and finalizing your MLL Class Set-up. 
• If you're directed to copy integrated MLL assignments from another LMS course, please consult our "Copying Courses" article. 
• If you're directed to insert MLL assignments into your own LMS course, please contact [email protected] for further support. 

 

How do I edit the settings for my integrated MLL assignments?

• Confirm with your admin whether you will need to edit the settings for your integrated MLL assignments. In the event your LMS course has been prepared for you, for example, you will likely only need to edit the due dates for your integrated MLL assignments and confirm the settings chosen in your MLL Class Set-up. 
• Your integrated MLL assignments will have settings to edit within your LMS course and within MLL itself. 
• On your LMS course, each inserted MLL assignment will have its own assignment post settings. You'll edit this assignment post as you would any other LMS assignment, making sure to preserve settings choices that will keep the links for your MLL assignments functional.
• Within your LMS course's settings for each of your integrated MLL assignments, do not limit submission attempts for your MLL assignments. Additionally, make sure your integrated MLL assignments will open in a new tab when launched. 
• For more information on editing the settings for your integrated MLL assignments within your MLL Class Set-up, please consult the "Finalize your MLL Class Set-up" section of our Instructor "Quick-start Guide" article. 

 

How do I set due dates for my integrated MLL assignments?

• You will need to set due dates within the LMS settings for each of your integrated MLL assignments, as well as within your MLL Class Set-up for each respective assignment.
• Even if your course doesn't enact late-work penalties, it's essential to set due dates for your MLL assignment posts within your LMS course, to model the time-frames students should complete those assignments to remain current with your class' content. Likewise, you'll need to set due dates within your MLL Class Set-up, so MLL will know when to report to your LMS gradebook in the event a student doesn't complete an assignment by its due date and/or if a student completes an assignment after its due date.
• For more information on setting due dates within your MLL Class Set-up, please consult the "Finalize your MLL Class Set-up" section of our Instructor "Quick-start Guide" article.
• In the event your student doesn't complete an integrated MLL assignment module exercise by the due date set within your MLL Class Set-up, including if your student completes an assignment module exercise after its due date, MLL will write-back a zero for that entire assignment module to your LMS gradebook. If you would like, you'll be able to appeal this late-work zero using your MLL Gradebook's "Accept Late Work" feature. For more information on accepting late work, please consult the "MLL Gradebook Features" section of our Instructor "Grading and Feedback" article. 
• After appealing a zero in your MLL Gradebook, wait overnight for the assignment module's total score to update in your LMS gradebook. 

 

Why is my student unable to access my integrated MLL assignments?

• If your student is encountering access errors, direct that student to contact Customer Support via [email protected] for further assistance. Customer Support will diagnose then resolve student-reported access errors. 
• For more information on what could be causing student access issues, please consult our Instructor "Enrollment Issues" article. 
• To model the correct way to access your integrated MLL assignments, please provide your students with our Student "Quick-start Guide" article, ideally at the beginning of your course.
• Our Student "Quick-start Guide" functions as an asynchronous student orientation for your integrated MLL assignments, and will provide them step-by-step instruction on joining your integrated MLL class, completing its assignments, and accessing their eBook. 

 

How do I check student performance on integrated MLL assignments?

• Since your integrated MLL class will write-back students' scores to your LMS gradebook, you won't need to leave your LMS environment to get a sense of how well your students are performing on your integrated MLL assignments. 
• In addition to your MLL assignments, we recommend inserting the MLL "Feedback Center" into your LMS course, to give you and your students a resource for further vetting MLL performance. 
• Within the Feedback Center, you'll be able to see (as an instructor) class-wide metrics like the completion rate on MLL assignment modules, the exercise-by-exercise completion rate for individual students, as well as the time students have spent in MLL. 
• Please direct your students to view their performance within the Feedback Center. Since MLL assignment modules write-back as a running average of exercise scores within a given assignment module, some students can mistake those running average scores as indicators they've completed all the exercises within a module. The Feedback Center prevents just such a misconception, because it presents the completion rate of an entire assignment module as students work through it. This can provides students with the cue that, for example, even though their running average might currently be set at a 100%, they still might have exercises left to complete, and their scores on those remaining exercises may change their score. 
• To access your MLL Gradebook, use the launch instructions as shown by our Instructor "Quick-start Guide" article. Because your grades will write-back to your LMS gradebook, you will primarily visit your MLL Gradebook page for only two reasons: to confirm student scores, or to enter grading exceptions via your MLL Gradebook features.  
• In the case of grading exceptions, you'll be able to accept late work, extend due dates, and/or reset assignments via your MLL Gradebook features. 
• For more information on viewing student performance and/or using MLL Gradebook features, please consult our Instructor "Grading and Feedback Center" article. 

 

Why aren't my student's grades writing back?

• When a student reports their grade for an assignment isn't writing back, please confirm whether the student has completed the assignment they've claimed to have completed. To confirm their assignment completion, navigate to your MLL Gradebook to check if there's a score for the assignment in-question. 
• If the student has a score for an integrated assignment in your MLL Gradebook, but that score hasn't written back to your LMS gradebook, the most-likely cause is the student accessed the assignment incorrectly. As modeled by the Student "Quick-start Guide" article, your students should exclusively access your integrated MLL assignments by launching them via your LMS course.
• As a backup for maintaining gradebook validation, MLL scans its Gradebook overnight and writes-back scores that weren't previously written back. 
• Reinforce the correct access pathway for your student, then wait overnight for MLL to write-back scores for the assignments your student accessed incorrectly. If your LMS gradebook doesn't update overnight, please contact [email protected] for further assistance. 
• If you find the student has a red zero for the assignment in-question, that means the student completed that assignment after its due date. Please consult the "MLL Gradebook Features" section of our Instructor "Grading and Feedback Center" article for more information on accepting late work. 
• Finally, if a student claims their grades aren't writing back, and you check your MLL Gradebook to find no record of the student completing any work, it's possible they didn't enroll in your integrated MLL class and have been completing assignments under "Independent Study Mode." Please consult the "Independent Study Mode" section of our "Enrollment Issues" article for information on how to proceed. 

 

How do I ensure MLL assignment grades automatically write-back to my LMS gradebook?

• Please advise students they should exclusively access your integrated MLL assignments by launching their respective links within your LMS course. If your students access and complete MLL assignments otherwise (i.e. by logging into FADavis.com directly and navigating to Medical Language Lab), their grades for completed MLL assignments will not instantly write-back to your LMS gradebook. 
• To model the correct way to access your integrated MLL assignments, please provide your students with our Student "Quick-start Guide" article, ideally at the beginning of your course.
• Our Student "Quick-start Guide" functions as an asynchronous student orientation for your integrated MLL assignments, and will provide them step-by-step instruction on joining your integrated MLL class, completing its assignments, and accessing their eBook. 
• Though MLL scans its Gradebook overnight and writes-back scores that weren't previously written back, this overnight write-back is not as reliable (and instant) as the write-back provided by correct MLL assignment access. 
• If you have further questions on grading within MLL, please consult our Instructor "Grading and Feedback Center" article. Likewise, if your students have questions about MLL grading, you can direct them to our Student "Grading and Feedback Center" article.

 

Why did my student's grade change, when they went back to review an MLL assignment?

• If a student reports that their grade for an assignment module changed after they went back to review its contents, the most-likely reason their grade changed is that student went back and completed exercises they didn't complete before your assignment module's due date. 
• To confirm why a student's grade changed, please access your MLL Gradebook, to check whether the assignment module in-question has a red zero as its total score. When an MLL assignment module has a red zero as its grade in your MLL Gradebook, that means at least one exercise within that assignment module was completed after the assignment's due date; that red zero functions as a late-work flag for you the instructor, indicating that you'll need to accept/reject late work to get rid of the late-work flag.
• For more information on addressing a red zero, please consult the "MLL Gradebook Features" section of our Instructor "Grading and Feedback Center" article.
• In much rarer cases, a student's grade will change if you've got an automatic late penalty in place for your LMS gradebook.
• If a student were to open a "Flash Cards" or "Crosswords" exercise of a past assignment module, MLL will record that as new work and write-back to your LMS gradebook. The "Flash Cards" and "Crosswords" exercises are ungraded, so the write-back is only a notification to your LMS that the student opened those exercises. But, your LMS gradebook can interpret that write-back notification as an update to an assignment module's score, which then prompts your LMS to enact its automatic late penalty on said assignment module's score. 
• If your LMS' automatic late penalty triggers as described above, please contact [email protected] for assistance. 

 

How do I preview my integrated MLL assignments, to get a closer look at what my students are working on?

• For an overview of each MLL activity and exercise type, as well as implementation recommendations for each activity and exercise type, please consult our Instructor "Assignment Exercise Types" article.
• For a step-by-step of what students will need to do to complete each MLL activity and exercise type, alongside examples of the exercise types found within each MLL activity type, please consult our Student "Assignment Exercise Types" article. 
• To get a closer look at the MLL assignments that have already been inserted into your LMS course, you can launch an integrated MLL assignment as if you were a student. After launching an assignment, you'll be able to work through said assignment as if you were a student, to get the full preview experience.
• Please note that the navigational elements that surround an MLL assignment will be reduced for your students, to prevent your students from navigating outside of integrated content.
• On your MLL class' Dashboard and within your MLL Classes page, which only you should see as an instructor, you will see links to launch a "Preview Student View" for your class. Because of the streamlined access offered by Deep Link integration, the "Preview Student View" will not be entirely accurate to what your students will see when launching their integrated MLL assignments, because "Preview Student View" functions as if your integrated MLL class was non-integrated.
• Though the "Preview Student View" for your class won't be entirely accurate, it'll still offer you a way to preview the assignments of your integrated MLL class and work through said assignments as if you were a student. 

 

Can multiple instructors manage a single integrated MLL class?

• Multiple co-instructors can manage a single integrated MLL class, and different access privileges can be given to each respective co-instructor. For more information on adding co-instructors to your integrated MLL class, please consult our "Adding Co-Instructors" article. 

 

Can I copy integrated MLL assignments from one LMS course to another?

• Provided the integrated assignment links are associated with the same textbook edition, and that you've got an FADavis.com account with access to the textbook edition in-question, you'll be able to copy integrated MLL assignment links from one LMS course to another. 
• After copying integrated MLL assignment links into a new LMS course, you will need to launch one of those integrated MLL assignments via your new LMS course to create a new integrated MLL class. 
• The majority of settings from your source integrated MLL class will carry over into its copy, but you will need to go into the new MLL class' Class Set-up to set due dates and confirm assignment Grading Options. 
• For the sake of being able to copy integrated MLL content in the future, please never delete integrated MLL classes from your MLL Classes page. 
• Full instructions for copying your integrated MLL assignments can be found in our "Copying Courses" article. 

 

Beyond Medical Language Lab, what resources are included with my textbook?

• For instructions on locating the pre-made PowerPoint presentations, test banks, and more provided alongside Medical Language Lab, please consult our "Instructor Resources" article.