If you cannot find an answer to a question below or within other Davis Advantage Deep Link Integration support articles, regarding managing your integrated Advantage 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 Advantage setup, or reported an error they've encountered when using Advantage, 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 Davis Advantage assignments.

 

LMS COURSE MANAGEMENT

- What is "Deep Link" integration?

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

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

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

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

 

ACCESS TROUBLESHOOTING

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

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

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

 

ADVANTAGE CLASS MANAGEMENT

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

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

- Can multiple instructors manage a single integrated Advantage class?

- Beyond Davis Advantage, what resources are included with my textbook?

 

What is "Deep Link" integration?

• The key features of Deep Link-integrated Davis Advantage assignments are direct assignment links within your LMS course and automatic LMS gradebook write-back when integrated Advantage assignments are completed. 
• Deep link integration inserts links to individual Davis Advantage assignments within your LMS course, so those integrated Advantage 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 Advantage 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 Advantage content part of your syllabus. 

 

How do I integrate Advantage assignments into my LMS course?

• Before you integrate Advantage 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 Advantage assignments into your LMS course, whether your admin (or otherwise) will insert Advantage assignments for you, or whether you'd be able to copy content from an LMS course with Advantage assignments already inserted. 
• If your integrated Advantage 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 Advantage Class Setup. 
• If you're directed to copy integrated Advantage assignments from another LMS course, please consult our "Copying Courses" article. 
• If you're directed to insert Advantage assignments into your own LMS course, please contact [email protected] for further support. 

 

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

• Confirm with your admin whether you will need to edit the settings for your integrated Advantage 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 Advantage assignments and confirm the settings chosen in your Advantage Class Setup. 
• Your integrated Advantage assignments will have settings to edit within your LMS course and within Advantage itself. 
• On your LMS course, each inserted Advantage 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 Advantage assignments functional.
• Within your LMS course's settings for each of your integrated Advantage assignments, do not limit submission attempts for your Advantage assignments. Additionally, make sure your integrated Advantage assignments will open in a new tab when launched. 
• For more information on editing the settings for your integrated Advantage assignments within your Advantage Class Setup, please consult the "Finalize your Advantage Class Setup" section of our Instructor "Quick-start Guide" article. 

 

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

• You will need to set due dates within the LMS settings for each of your integrated Advantage assignments, as well as within your Advantage Class Setup for each respective assignment.
• Even if your course doesn't enact late-work penalties, it's essential to set due dates for your Advantage 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 Advantage Class Setup, so Advantage 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 Advantage Class Setup, please consult the "Finalize your Advantage Class Setup" section of our Instructor "Quick-start Guide" article.
• In the event your student doesn't complete an integrated Advantage assignment by the due date set within your Advantage Class Setup, including if your student completes an assignment after its due date, Advantage will write-back a zero for that assignment to your LMS gradebook. If you would like, you'll be able to appeal this late-work zero using your Advantage Gradebook's "Accept Late Work" feature. For more information on accepting late work, please consult the "Advantage Gradebook Features" section of our Instructor "Grading and Feedback" article. 
• After appealing a zero in your Advantage Gradebook, you will need to manually update the Advantage assignment's entry in your LMS gradebook. 

 

Why is my student unable to access my integrated Advantage 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 Advantage 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 Advantage assignments, and will provide them step-by-step instruction on joining your integrated Advantage class, completing its assignments, accessing their eBook, and creating Practice Quizzes for themselves. 

 

How do I check student performance on integrated Advantage assignments?

• Since your integrated Advantage 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 Advantage assignments. For further performance metrics, you'll need to enter your integrated Advantage class, using the launch instructions as shown by our Instructor "Quick-start Guide" article. 
• Once you've entered your integrated Advantage class, you've got two main hubs through which to view student performance information: your "Assignments" and "Gradebook" pages.
• Your "Assignments" page will offer performance data like student competency, time spent, and completion rates for each of your integrated Advantage assignments. On your Assignments page, you'll even be able to view the exact answers a student gave for any completed Advantage assignment and how their answers might contrast with the assignment's correct answers. 
• Because your grades will write-back to your LMS gradebook, you will primarily visit your Advantage "Gradebook" page for only two reasons: to confirm student scores, or to enter grading exceptions via your Advantage 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 Advantage Gradebook features. 
• For more information on viewing student performance analytics and/or using Advantage Gradebook features, please consult our Instructor "Grading and Feedback" 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 Advantage 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 Advantage 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 Advantage assignments by launching them via your LMS course.
• Reinforce the correct access pathway for your student, then manually update their score for the integrated assignment in your LMS gradebook. 
• 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 "Advantage Gradebook Features" section of our Instructor "Grading and Feedback" article for more information on accepting late work. 
• Finally, if a student claims their grades aren't writing back, and you check your Advantage Gradebook to find no record of the student completing any work, it's possible they didn't enroll in your integrated Advantage 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 Advantage assignment grades automatically write-back to my LMS gradebook?

• Please advise students they should exclusively access your integrated Advantage assignments by launching their respective links within your LMS course. If your students access and complete Advantage assignments otherwise (i.e. by logging into FADavis.com directly and navigating to Davis Advantage), their grades for completed Advantage assignments will not write-back to your LMS gradebook. 
• To model the correct way to access your integrated Advantage 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 Advantage assignments, and will provide them step-by-step instruction on joining your integrated Advantage class, completing its assignments, accessing their eBook, and creating Practice Quizzes for themselves. 
• If you have further questions on grading within Advantage, please consult our Instructor "Grading and Feedback" article. Likewise, if your students have questions about Advantage grading, you can direct them to our Student "Grading and Personalized Learning Plans" article.

 

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

• For an overview of each Advantage assignment type, as well as implementation recommendations for each assignment type, please consult our Instructor "Assignment Types" article.
• For a step-by-step of what students will need to do to complete each Advantage assignment type, alongside examples of the activity types found within each Advantage assignment type, please consult our Student "Assignment Types" article. 
• To get a closer look at the Advantage assignments that have already been inserted into your LMS course, you can launch an integrated Advantage 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 Advantage assignment will be reduced for your students, to prevent your students from navigating outside of integrated content.
• On your Advantage class' Dashboard and within your Advantage Classes page, you will see links to launch a "Student Preview Mode" for your class. Because of the streamline access offered by Deep Link integration, the "Student Preview Mode" will not be entirely accurate to what your students will see when launching their integrated Advantage assignments, because "Student Preview Mode" functions as if your integrated Advantage class was non-integrated. Though the Student Preview Mode for your class won't be entirely accurate, it'll still offer you a way to preview the assignments of your integrated Advantage class and work through said assignments as if you were a student. 
• Lastly, if you go to the "Assignments" page of your integrated Advantage class, you'll be able to view the answer key for any of your assignments by clicking the assignment's cog icon and choosing "Preview" from the cog's dropdown menu. 

 

Can multiple instructors manage a single integrated Advantage class?

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

 

Can I copy integrated Advantage 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 Advantage assignment links from one LMS course to another. 
• After copying integrated Advantage assignment links into a new LMS course, you will need to launch one of those integrated Advantage assignments via your new LMS course to create a new integrated Advantage class. 
• The majority of settings from your source integrated Advantage class will carry over into its copy, but you will need to go into the new Advantage class' Class Setup to set due dates and confirm assignment Grading Options. 
• For the sake of being able to copy integrated Advantage content in the future, please never delete integrated Advantage classes from your Advantage Classes page. 
• Full instructions for copying your integrated Advantage assignments can be found in our "Copying Courses" article. 

 

Beyond Davis Advantage, what resources are included with my textbook?

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