1. Before you begin
Do not log into the Davis 360 website and create a Dosage Calc 360 class manually, because doing so will create a course that will not integrate with your LMS gradebook.
Your integrated DC360 course will be created through your LMS. To begin, log into your Learning Management System (Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle, or D2L/Brightspace) and access your course.
2. Locate a Dosage Calc 360 assignment
Once logged into your LMS course, locate a link to DC360 content.
The locations and titles of DC360 assignment links will vary depending on how your admin has designed your course. Look for "Dosage Calc 360," or assignment names like "Basic Math” and "Systems of Measurement." Ask your admin for help if you're unable to find your DC360 assignments.
Though the example below is of a DC360 assignment within a Canvas course, your DC360 assignments will appear similarly in all Learning Management Systems:
3. Launch a DC360 assignment
Click its link in your LMS course to launch a DC360 assignment. Depending on your LMS, the DC360 assignment may load automatically in a new browser window, or you may be taken to a launch page with a button to load the assignment.
If you are taken to a DC360 assignment launch page, you may see an assignment description entered by an admin. If you don't see an assignment description, you can add one later on the assignment's setting page in your LMS. Click the button that reads "Load (assignment name) in a new window," so your assignment will launch in a new tab.
If you click a DC360 assignment link and it fails to launch, it's possible your web browser settings blocked the assignment's launch page. Check your browser settings to make sure pop-ups are permitted.
After launching a DC360 assignment, you'll be taken to a student preview of that assignment's content. In this student preview, you'll be able to work through an assignment as if you were a student. For more information on the types of activities you might assign, consult our "Assignment Types" article.
If Dosage Calc 360 loads successfully, that means you have successfully activated and launched your integrated DC360 course. Your students will now be able to use the links in your LMS to automatically enroll in this DC360 course and access their assigned coursework, which will be recorded in your LMS gradebook.
Please stress to your students that they must always access DC360 assignments via the links in your LMS course, for their grades to record correctly.
4. Navigate to your DC360 Class Setup
After launching a DC360 assignment, you'll be able to customize your DC360 class' settings. Navigate to your DC360 Classes page by clicking "Classes" in the top-left navigation bar.
Your DC360 Classes page collects your current and expired DC360 classes. After a successful launch, a DC360 class with the same name as your LMS course will now appear under your list of Active Classes. You may see a duplicate listing directly below that course, but you can disregard this as a normal part of the integration display. Please only make changes to the course atop its duplicate.
Click "MANAGE" (1) if you have a co-instructor who needs access to your DC360 class. For more information on adding co-instructors to your DC360 class, consult our "Adding Co-Instructors" article.
Clicking "ROSTER" (2) will bring you to your DC360 class' student roster, so you can confirm all your students have enrolled.
Due to the nature of your LMS integration, clicking "Preview Student View" won't give you an accurate preview of what your student's DC360 experience will look like. If you want to preview student assignment content, do so by launching DC360 assignments via your LMS course.
Thanks to your LMS integration, you can disregard the cog button on the far right side of each class listing. This button opens a menu of three options that you will not need to use with your integrated course: “Copy Class ID,” “Clone,” and “Delete.” You won't need to copy your Class ID, because students will be automatically enrolled in your DC360 class when they launch one of its assignments via your LMS course.
You will not utilize the "Clone" feature seen here. If you want to teach a copy of one of your DC360 classes, you can create that copy via your LMS. Please consult our "Copying Courses" article for more information.
Furthermore, please don't delete integrated DC360 classes, as this can result in technical errors.
To view a class' Dashboard, click its "View” button.
Click an "Edit" button to access your DC360 Class Set-up, so you can progress toward finalizing your DC360 class' settings.
5. Finalize your DC360 Class Setup
On the Class Setup page, you will see a menu with five steps of adjustable course settings. Thanks to your integration, some of these steps have already been pre-configured for you.
The first step, "Create Class" will auto-populate when you first launch a DC360 assignment integrated within your LMS course. You may notice that the default class Start Date and class End Date are open longer than your actual course dates. You do not have to change these settings, as your students’ access to the class content will be determined by their access to your LMS course.
If you encounter a setting on the "Create Class" step, or any other step of the Class Setup, that you need to change and are unable to do so, please contact us via [email protected] so we can assist you.
Scroll to the bottom of each step and click the "Next Step" button to progress your DC360 Class Setup. Clicking the "Next Step" button saves whatever changes you made on a step of the Class Setup, in addition to progressing to the next step of the Setup.
On the "Select Content" step, you'll see a list of all the DC360 assignments inserted into your LMS course. This is where you can finalize the types of content and the number of exercises available to your students within each assignment.
You can preview or turn off content in DC360 assignment modules down to the exercise level.
Click its "Details" button to open the full contents of a DC360 assignment module.
To learn more about the different types of exercises within DC360 assignments, please consult our student "Assignment Types" article.
Please do not turn off full assignment modules here, via the initial row of On/Off buttons highlighted in the image below. Use the settings in your LMS course to control which DC360 assignments students can access, then use the "Select Content" step of your Class Set-up to finalize which exercises within your DC360 assignment modules are available.
Before students begin working in your DC360 class, please make sure you or an admin have finalized which exercises your students will be responsible for completing.
When you are finished making changes, select “Next Step” to move on.
The "Schedule Content" step of your DC360 Class Setup is where you'll finalize due dates for your DC360 assignments. If you want students to be penalized for late work in your course, you will need to enter assignment due dates on this page to match the due dates in your syllabus or LMS.
Select “Set dates,” then scroll down to see a list of assignments available in your course.
For each assignment, you will see a Start Date and an End Date. You can disregard the Start Dates here, as you are able to control when students access each assignment through the settings in your Learning Management System.
For each End Date, select the deadline that aligns with your intended due date for that assignment. The student will still be able to access the assignment after the End Date, but any new work submitted will be flagged as late and assigned a pending grade of “0” which you can override at your discretion.
For more information on late work, please see the “DC360 Gradebook Features” section of our instructor "Grading and Metrics” article.
When you are finished selecting your due dates, click “Next Step” to move on.
On the "Grading Options" step of your DC360 Class Setup, you can choose grading rules for different DC360 assignment types. Please note that grading rules should be selected before students have enrolled and begun working in your course.
Information about each grading rule can be found on the right-hand side of this step. More information on grading can also be found in our "Grading and Metrics" article for instructors.
Subtopic Practice exercises (found within your DC360 assignments modules) are graded based on completion. Please leave both of these assignments on the default "Percentage-based Participation Grade" selection, so grades for these assignments will correctly report back to your LMS gradebook.
If you would like to make an assignment points-based or change the amount of points an assignment is worth, you can do so by editing the grade setting and point value for that assignment in your LMS instead.
The Post Assessments that conclude each of your DC360 assignment modules can be graded based on completion or competency. Here, the "Participation approach" selection will grade students based on completion, whereas the "Traditional Grade" selection will grade students based on how many quiz questions they get correct.
Do not select "Points approach."
Additionally, Post Assessments can be graded based on a student's best or first attempt. If graded on their best attempt, students will be allowed to retake Post Assessments, with only their best score recorded in your DC360 Gradebook. If graded on first attempt, a student's first score on a Post Assessment will be the only score recorded.
Just like the Post Assessments, you can choose to grade Quizzing Assignments based on completion or competency. Choose "Participation approach" to grade based on completion, or "Traditional Grade" to grade students based on how many quiz questions they get correct.
Again, please do not select "Points approach."
Then, select whether you want Quizzing Assignments to be graded on best attempt or first attempt.
Click "Next Step" once you've decided how your DC360 assignments will be graded.
The "Summary" step of your DC360 Class Setup gives you a chance to review the settings choices you've made.
Though it instructs you to do so at the top of the "Summary" step, you won't need to share your Class ID with your students. Because your DC360 class is integrated within your LMS course, your students will automatically enroll in your DC360 class by launching DC360 assignments via your LMS course.
6. Check student performance
As students complete the DC360 assignments in your LMS course, their grades for those assignments will report back to your LMS gradebook. Please stress to your students they must always access DC360 assignments via your LMS course, for their grades to report back correctly.
Scores for DC360 Quizzing Assignments will be recorded via their own respective LMS gradebook entries.
As students complete exercises within a DC360 assignment module, you'll see their grade for that assignment adjust according to the running average of scores for the exercises they've completed. For example, if a student fully completes one Practice exercise on-time, their overall grade for that exercise's DC360 assignment will appear as a 100%.
Then, if the student completes 40% of a second Practice exercise on-time, their grade for that DC360 assignment would appear as an average of their scores for those two exercises.
If your assignment module Post Assessments are set to be graded based on competency, competency scores for those exercises will factor into DC360 assignment module scores as explained above.
Once the due date for an assignment passes, any incomplete exercises within assignment modules will be scored as 0%, and those scores will be factored into a student's final average grade for those assignment modules. Likewise, Quizzing Assignments that are incomplete by their due dates will be scored as 0%.
Late submissions will be scored as a 0, as will assignments and exercises that students haven't opened and/or made progress on prior to their set due dates.
Zeroes for late submissions will appear in red and can be overwritten via the DC360 Gradebook's "Accept Late Work" feature. For more information on DC360 Gradebook features, please consult our "Grading and Metrics" article.
7. Access your Instructor Resources
In addition to its pre-made assignments, Dosage Calc 360 comes with Instructor Resources to save you some lesson-planning time. If you want PowerPoints and test banks to use within your class, you'll find them in your Instructor Resources!
To access your Instructor Resources, you must log into FADavis.com.
Log into FADavis.com with the same credentials you use to log into your LMS course. You will not need to create an F.A. Davis account.
After logging into FADavis.com, you'll see your My Products page, with listings of all the F.A. Davis books you have access to.
Find Dosage Calc 360 and click its "Resources" button.
Your students won't be able to access the Instructor Resources that come with Dosage Calc 360. And, you can edit whatever you find in your Instructor Resources however you see fit!
Click the "Instructor" dropdown menu to open your Instructor Resources.
Within your Instructor dropdown menu, you can find an Implementation Guide with insights on using DC360 content in your class
Beneath the Implementation Guide, you can find full PowerPoint Presentations in the "Classroom & Lecture Planning Resources" dropdown menu of your Instructor Resources.
In the "Testing Resource" dropdown menu of your Instructor Resources, click the "Test Banks in Document Format" dropdown menu to find documents with premade test questions for each chapter/topic covered in Dosage Calc 360. Check with your admin to confirm whether the test banks seen here have already been added to your LMS course.
Please note, your Instructor Resources test banks aren't duplicates of the test banks in Dosage Calc 360, so you can use your Instructor Resources test banks to create your own in-class quizzes and tests!
For resources you may want to direct your students toward, click the "Access Davis 360" button to begin navigating toward your Dosage Calc 360 class.
Once you're in your DC360 class, click "Resources" in the top-left navigation bar. Your students will also be able to access the DC360 resources we're navigating to, by clicking "Resources" in their own navigation bar.
Within your DC360 Resources page, your students and you can find additional videos related to dosage calculation, as well as downloadable reference sheets underneath the page's "Tools" listing.
Click "View" to access any of the respective resources listed on your Resources page.
8. Distribute the student Quick-Start Guide
If your admin hasn't already, please link the student "Quick-start Guide" article to be seen early in your LMS course content or in your syllabus. The student Quick-start Guide is designed to be an asynchronous orientation of all students need to know to launch and complete assignments within DC360, as well as how to utilize additional resources offered by DC360.
Students should only access your DC360 assignments via your LMS course, and they'll be automatically enrolled into your integrated DC360 class when they first launch one of the DC360 assignments inserted into your LMS course.
To confirm all your students are within your integrated DC360 class, click the "Roster" display within your DC360 Gradebook. Please confirm your DC360 class roster a few days after your class start date, to ensure all your students have enrolled correctly.
9. Need more help?
If you have consulted the information/resources above and are still unable to access your DC360 content, please contact us via [email protected]. Include your name, LMS login email address, and the name of your institution in your email to us, so our team can contact and assist you.
