If you cannot find an answer to a question below or within other Davis Advantage Basic Integration support articles, regarding managing your integrated Advantage class link 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 content.

 

LMS COURSE MANAGEMENT

- What is "Basic" 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 classes 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 recording?

 

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 "Basic" integration?

• The key feature of a Basic-integrated Davis Advantage class is a direct class link within your LMS course, streamlining student navigation to your integrated Advantage class and its assignments. 
• By launching one of your integrated Advantage class links, students are automatically enrolled in your integrated Advantage class and will not be required to make their FADavis.com logins independently.
• With a Basic Integration setup, the grades for your integrated Advantage assignments will not automatically write-back to your LMS gradebook, so you'll need to manually enter Advantage assignment scores if you want to make them part of your class' final grades. For more information on Advantage grading and how to enter grades into your LMS gradebook, please consult the "Grading" section of our Instructor "Grading and Feedback" article.   

 

How do I integrate Advantage assignments into my LMS course?

• Before you integrate an Advantage class 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 class links into your LMS course, whether your admin (or otherwise) will insert Advantage class links for you, or whether you'd be able to copy content from an LMS course with Advantage class links already inserted. 
• If your integrated Advantage class links will be inserted into your LMS course for you, please consult our Instructor "Quick-start Guide" article for information on launching your integrated class links and finalizing your Advantage Class Setup. 
• If you're directed to copy an integrated Advantage class that's already been set up, please consult our "Copying Classes" article. 
• If you're directed to insert Advantage class links into your own LMS course, please consult our "Create a Class" article.  

 

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 class. In the event your LMS course and integrated Advantage class have been prepared for you, for example, you will likely only need to edit the due dates for your integrated Advantage assignments within Advantage itself and confirm the settings chosen in your Advantage Class Setup. 
• 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. 
• Once your integrated Advantage class links have been configured and inserted into your LMS course, you won't need to edit your Advantage class links further, unless advised to do so by an Integration team member. 

 

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

• You will need to set due dates within your Advantage Class Setup for each respective assignment. 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 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 mark that assignment with a red zero in your Advantage 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. 

 

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 class, 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?

• 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 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. 
• 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, using Advantage Gradebook features, and/or how to export a spreadsheet to make manually entering Advantage grades easier, please consult our Instructor "Grading and Feedback" article. 

 

Why aren't my student's grades recording?

• When a student reports their grade for an assignment isn't being recorded by Advantage, 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 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. 
• If a student claims their grades aren't recording, 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 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 are available within your integrated Advantage class, you can launch an integrated Advantage class link as if you were a student. After launching an Advantage class link, you'll land on your Davis Advantage My Products page, with listings for each of the Advantage-enabled textbooks you've got access to. For each textbook, you'll see a "Preview Student View" link; when pressed, you'll launch a preview of Advantage assignment content for the textbook at-hand, that's irrespective of the settings choices you made for your integrated Advantage class. 
• Within a "Student Preview Mode," you'll be able to work through Advantage assignments as if you were a student. 
• For more preview options, navigate to the Advantage Classes page of your textbook or further to your class' Dashboard. On your Advantage Classes page and within your Advantage class' Dashboard, you will see separate links to launch a "Student Preview Mode" for your class. When launching a "Student Preview Mode" from these two locations, the preview offered will reflect the settings choice you made for your integrated Advantage class. 
• 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 classes from one LMS course to another?

• 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 classes can be found in our "Copying Classes" article.
• To copy the setup of one Advantage class to make another, perhaps for an upcoming semester or for an additional concurrent section, you'll first need to clone your Advantage class via your Classes page. After cloning your class within Advantage, contact [email protected] for instructions on inserted a class link into your new LMS course. 
• The majority of settings from your source integrated Advantage class will carry over into its clone, but you will need to go into the cloned Advantage class' Class Setup to set due dates and confirm assignment Grading Options. 

 

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.