The Assignments tool allows instructors to create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments. Assignments are private; student submissions are not visible to other users of the site. The Assignments tool offers multiple grading options, including letter grades, points, check marks, pass/fail, or ungraded. Instructors can allow re-submission of assignments. This allows students to submit a draft, get instructor feedback, make corrections and resubmit a final version. When the instructor releases grades for an assignment, students can view instructor feedback and their grade.

Create a New Assignment

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Enter the Assignment area by clicking on Assignment in the left menu bar. Notice that we're on the Assignment List page (see links at the top of the window).

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Click on the Add link at the top of the window.

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In the dialog box, give your assignment a title.

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From the pop-down menus, choose an Open Date and Time, Due Date and Time, and Accept Until date and time (if you accept late work).

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Student work can be submitted as inline only (done directly inside ETUDES-NG), attachments only, or a mixture of both. Set the submission style here.

6.

Set the grading scale. Options are: Ungraded, Letter grade, Points, Pass/Fail or Checkmark. If you choose Points, put in the maximum possible. There used to be a maximum points per assignment of 200 points, but that doesn't seem to be the case any longer.

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Under the assignment description box, you will see four check boxes, as follows:
  • To have the assignment due date added to the site's calendar schedule, check the box next to Add due date to schedule.
  • To have the open date announced automatically when you post the assignment by putting an announcement on your site's homepage, check the box next to Announce the open date.
  • To have the honor pledge displayed when students are submitting an assignment, check the box next to Add honor pledge. Students must check a box agreeing to the pledge before their work can be submitted. The text of the Honor Pledge is as follows: "I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment. Yes (You must respond to submit your assignment.)"
  • Assignment grades can be automatically posted to the Gradebook. In order to do so, you must choose Points as your grading type. Also, the Gradebook Tool must be enabled. Then click on Add to Gradebook and the points will be automatically posted to the gradebook.

 

 

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If you'd like to add an attachment to the assignment, click on the Add attachment box (see next section for instructions to add attachments).

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When all is completed, click the Post button to add to the assignment list, click Preview if you want to see what it will look like before you post, click Save Draft if you want to think about it and come back later, or click Cancel to leave without posting anything.

4/19/06