If you are an Author on the SOWISO platform, you can create your own exercises and then add them to the course material. There are two options how you can do that:
Add a separate chapter that will contain all your added exercises
Add your exercise to existing SOWISO chapters
Both options have their perks and disadvantages, so here is an overview below to help you decide what to do.
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
Having a separate chapter with your exercises | It's quite simple to group all your exercises together in order to create a new chapter. | The exercises aren't displayed together with the rest of the content, which might be confusing to students. |
Integrating your exercises to existing SOWISO chapters | Exercises are displayed together with the rest of the topic. | There is some more work to do to make your own copy of the SOWISO chapter so that you can edit it. |
How to create your own chapter that will contain your new exercise(s)
SOWISO follows a specific content structure, where each exercise needs to be located in a package, subchapter and chapter.
We will start from the top by creating a new chapter and a subchapter. Then, directly from the subchapter, we will create a package and add your exercise to it. Here is a quick video that shows how to do that:
The last step is to add your chapter to the course material so that your students can see it. Go to Teacher-Course material, and look for the new chapter on the right side of your screen. You can search by the chapter name, but there will be multiple chapters with the same name. If you hover over the chapter you will see the chapter ID as well. Right-click on it and choose "Add" and the chapter will be added to your course material.
Remember to remove the old chapter (the one that doesn't contain your exercise) to avoid confusion.
How to integrate your exercise into an existing SOWISO chapter
In this case, you will need to have read/copy Author access to the Author group to which the particular chapter belongs. You can read more about Author access here. To get this access, please contact the Manager at your institution or support@sowiso.com.
Once you have the proper access, go to the chapter tab and find the chapter you need to copy. You can search by the name or the chapter ID. When you find your chapter, click on the copy icon to create your copy of it.
Note: When you copy a chapter, chapter ID, subchapter ID, package ID and theory page ID will get new IDs, but the exercise IDs will stay the same. This means that you won't have your own copy of the exercises in this chapter. This is important to know in case that you wished to also edit some of the SOWISO exercises. Read more about it here.
Now we still need to add your new exercise(s) to the new copy of the chapter you just created. First, find the exercise ID. It will be in the pink bubble on the left side of your exercise. Save this exercise ID because we will use it later.
Then, find the chapter that you copied from the SOWISO course material. You can find it under Author-Chapter by looking for the chapter name or it's ID. The copied chapter will be in your own author group where you have full authoring rights.
Open up the chapter by clicking on its name or on the yellow pencil. Find the package where you want to add your exercise, and click on its name or the yellow pencil in order to edit it. Look for your exercise on the right side of the screen by entering the exercise ID.
Once you add your exercise into the package, you can also reorder the exercises by dragging and dropping them.
Lastly, we still need to add this new chapter to your course material. Go to Teacher-Course material, and look for the new chapter on the right side of your screen. You can search by the chapter name, but there will be multiple chapters with the same name. If you hover over the chapter you will see the chapter ID as well. Right-click on it and choose "Add" and the chapter will be added to your course material.
Remember to remove the old chapter (the one that doesn't contain your exercise) to avoid confusion.