These steps must be completed after your district administrator has completed setup for the Amplify Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) version 1.3 app for Schoology. If you aren’t sure if this has happened, check with your district administrator.
Grade sync is currently available for Amplify ELA 6-8 and Amplify Science 6-8.
Add Amplify Classwork to each course that you plan to sync grades. You will complete the teacher set up steps to sync grades from Amplify to Schoology only once for each course.
Teacher Setup Tips
Before you get started, double check the following to ensure that grade sync can work smoothly:
Ensure that Schoology courses are set up and your rosters match.
Before getting started, you’ll need to set up courses with students in Schoology. Visit the PowerSchool / Schoology Help Article for more information.
Grade syncing will work most seamlessly if your Amplify and Schoology course rosters contain the same students. Check to make sure your rosters match in Schoology and Amplify. Also be sure that student email addresses and SIS ID (if applicable) match; these fields are used to match students between the two systems.
Ensure Schoology gradebook categories and percent/total points are set up, including a default category, which is indicated with a star. Refer to Schoology gradebook setup to make sure this is done correctly.
This must be done for every class you plan to sync grades.
The teacher who plans to sync the Schoology course must be the teacher completing the setup steps. If you copied a course from the commons and Amplify Classwork was already added, remove it and re-add it.
Teacher Grade Sync Setup
Before getting started, your district administrator must have configured the Amplify 1.3 app as described in the district setup help article. Once that is done, you’re ready to set up grade sync!
Add the Amplify app as a Material in each course for which you would like to enable grade syncing:
Navigate to Courses in the left navigation.
Select the Course to install the Amplify 1.3 app.
Click the Add Materials menu.
Select Amplify.
Now, you will see a link to the Amplify app (named Classwork) in the course. This can be used to log in directly to Amplify, and will direct you to the Classwork homepage. It also enables grade sync to work!
Do this for each class for which you would like to enable grade syncing.
Remember to set up your Schoology gradebook before syncing scores, including setting a default category.
Grade Sync Setup with Linked Sections
If you are using Linked Sections in Schoology, the following setup steps will ensure that you are able to sync grades from Amplify to Schoology.
Follow the steps from Schoology to link sections: How to Use Linked Sections.
Once your linked sections have been set up, you will notice that they are grouped under one course.
Now, follow steps 1–4 in the section above to add the Amplify version 1.3 app to the course that contains the linked sections. Take this step only after your sections have been linked.
Tip: When syncing grades, make sure that the section you select to sync grades to in Schoology contains the same students as the class in Amplify.
This completes the Schoology setup steps! Now, you are ready for the next help article: Syncing Grades from Amplify to Schoology.