Manage Domain Settings

If enabled, Pearson allows you to create activity templates so that content authors can copy items from the syllabus of the indicated course and edit for their own needs.

Pearson supports the use of Single Sign-on (SSO) features to allow users to sign in to one application (for example, a student information system) and be automatically logged into Pearson without needing to re-enter credentials.

Users can choose a profile picture from a list of pre-approved avatars. From this card, you can add, upload, and delete these avatar images.

Course authors can set up badges to be automatically awarded to students upon their completion of a specified activity or accomplishment, or awarded manually by a teacher or grader. From this screen, you can add, edit, and delete these Badges.

Use blackout dates to specify the dates to exclude when calculating due dates for continuous enrollment courses in your domain.

Provide a Name, and Start and End dates.

Add tabs for third-party apps to seamlessly integrate for intervention or other personalized learning goals. For example, you may integrate with a messaging tool. To do so, provide:

• A tab Title.
• The third-party URL.

Add course templates that content authors can use as a structure when creating new courses.

These fields control elements of the Editor tool. From this screen, you can:

• Hide Activities (activity types) by listing them in the field; separate items with commas.
• Required rights specify which rights you want a user to have to see the Editor tool.

Google Workspace integration enables:

• Easy creation of Google Drive documents in the student app when completing a Dropbox activity.
• PDF snapshots of Google Drive submissions.
• Automatic permissions management.
• Automatic copies of Google Drive documents when duplicating activities.

Easily create domain-wide landing page content that appears on the user's Home page, and specify when and which roles see it.

To help assess objective mastery, you can align course activities with Standards from various states or organizations (these are drawn from the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) catalogue). By default, Pearson Connexus makes the following standards available to all domains (contact your Agilix account manager to add standards to your domain):

• Common Cores State Standards (CCSS)
• Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
• Standards from all states in the US, which are represented by their two-letter code.

1. To make an organization's standards available in your courses, add its code to the Comma-separated list of standard sets.
2. Check the boxes for the grade levels to include as well.

Add redirects to allow users to access Pearson Connexus data in third-party apps by authenticating in Pearson Connexus first. To do so, provide:

• The ID of the redirect entry.
• The third-party URL.

Integrate with other learning tools. From this screen, you can add and delete Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Credentials.

To add a new LTI Credential, provide the Hostname URL, the Key, and the Secret.

Edit default Main Menu items and add new, custom items.

• Add custom menu items
• Override default menu items: To edit default items, provide:
  • The existing menu item Type you want to edit.  
  • The desired item placement Order ("0" = top placement).
  • The desired item Title.
  • The desired Icon.

Add and remove the metadata sections associated with items (folders and activities) in the Editor tool for the teacher role. From this screen, you can add, edit, and delete metadata sections. To create a metadata section, you are asked to:

• Provide a Name, which is not visible to the users and cannot include spaces or special characters (you can underscore or hyphenate between words).
• Provide a Title visible to students.
• Choose Input Type from the options listed here. The content entered in these fields is used to create searchable metadata tags.
• Provide Placeholder text for the activity.
• Use the Default field to define the default state or content present in the field (this is not available for the Rich Text input type).
• Indicate the Levels within the course folder structure at which you want this metadata displayed. Level one is the first level of folders under the course folder, level two impacts any folders or activities you add to those folders, and so forth. If you don't specify here, the field is shown at all levels.
• Choose the Item Type for which the section should appear (folders, activities, or all).
• Indicate if you want to Allow setting per group.
• Indicate if you want to make the item Visible to students when they select the item in the Activities tool (only applicable to folders).
• Indicate if you want the metadata Editable in Clipboard in the Teacher app. Checking this box causes the metadata field to appear in the Clipboard when creating activities.

Create metadata fields for teachers, course authors, etc to complete for courses.

Admins can create Domain Metadata fields where users can record and track additional information about a domain.

Create metadata fields for questions by providing a:

• Name: The XML element name for the data.
• Title: What you want shown in the UI.

Create User Metadata fields where users can track additional information about a user.

The Miscellaneous card includes:

• Default course navigation: Choose your domain's default Activities tool layout from two options:
  • Full View shows the course tree structure in the sidebar when a user opens a folder.
  • Simplified shows only the contents of the folder the user is in. 
• Idle Timeout: Enter, in minutes, the amount of time Pearson Connexus can remain idle before logging out users. Providing a timeout value prevents users from staying logged in indefinitely and having that time recorded and reported as activity. If you leave this field blank, users are not logged out due to inactivity.
• Prohibited Files: List any file types users are prohibited from uploading to Pearson Connexus. Separate items with commas.
• Hide audio and video uploading controls: Check this box to disable audio/video uploads.

Create rubrics for course authors to use with the Rubric editor.

Set up domain-level Grading Periods for courses in your domain to use. To do so, define a school year, create Grading Periods within that school year, then select the current year and Grading Period for the domain.

Add Scoring Objectives to use in Multi-Outcome Scoring courses.  

Student Options: Here, you can:

• Allow students to change their email address.
• Allow students to change their password.
• Allow students to change their profile picture by uploading a new picture. 
• Allow students to change their profile picture by selecting an avatar. 
• Allow students to see peers who have completed course activities. (Peer Help)
• Show or hide affirmation messages when students complete continuous-course activities for the day.
• Hide the ability for students to register themselves for courses by entering the registration codes. 
• Hide the ability for students to send email from Pearson Connexus. 
• Specify when you want a course to start counting down days before it ends for students with the Course-ending countdown field. This countdown appears in the Activities and Gradebook tools for students. 
• Specify when an activity will display as Due soon in a student's To-do List by completing the Due soon field.

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