Assignments

Assignments allow students to submit work to their teacher for grading. The work may be text typed online or uploaded files of any type the teacher’s device can read.

When you create an assignment, you have the ability set it up to check for possible plagiarism using CopyLeaks. For a video tutorial, click here.

Step 1 Enable the Edit button at the top right of the screen. Edit Mode toggle
Step 2 Scroll to the bottom of the section where you want to place the activity, then click Add an Activity or Resource, on the resulting page choose Assignment. Add resource tab with assignment highlighted
Step 3 On the resulting screen, type a name for the assignment and an optional description.

The description can include instructions for the students. (If you wish to make the description available on the front page of your course, you can check the box next to Display description on course page.)
Assignment settings with the name entered
Step 4 You may set the assignment's availability in the Availability area. Availability settings for an assignment
Step 5 In the Submission types area, you may choose the submission types you wish to accept. Submission type settings
Step 5 In the Grade area, you can change the number of points allotted for this assignment.

If you wish, you may change the Grading method from "Simple direct grading" to Marking guide or Rubric.

If you use Grade categories, you may assign a category here as well. (For more information on creating categories, click here.)
Grade settings for assignment
Step 6 You may adjust any other settings you wish. For more information on Assignment settings, please click here.

When you are done setting up the assignment, choose either Save and return to course or Save and display.
Save options, Save and return - Save and display


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