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Assignments and rubrics

Set assignments students hand in as photos, files, text or links: due dates, late penalties, resubmissions, who gets it, rubrics and grading types.

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  1. Create an assignment
  2. Rubrics
  3. How a submission moves
  4. Late work and penalties
  5. Across all courses
  6. Grade the work

An assignment is work students hand in and a teacher grades: a worksheet photographed on a phone, an essay, a slide deck, a link to a project. Open a course, then Classwork › Assignments › New assignment.

Create an assignment

The editor is one form in five parts, with a live summary on the side showing exactly what students will get.

  1. Basics

    A title and the instructions, plus any attachments students need, such as a worksheet PDF.

  2. Schedule

    The due date and time (required), and optionally Available from (it appears to students then; empty means right away) and Available until (after this it stops taking work; empty means no end).

  3. Submission

    How students hand in: File upload, Text and/or Link. For files, set the maximum size and number of files, and which kinds you accept. Leave it on Any file so students can hand in phone photos.

    Then choose whether late submissions are allowed (with an optional penalty in percent per hour or per day) and whether resubmissions are allowed after grading (with a maximum number of attempts).

  4. Grading

    The total points and the grading type: Points, Percentage, Pass/fail or Not graded. You can attach a rubric here.

  5. Assign to

    All students in the course, or Specific students, for example a remedial group.

Finish with Save draft or Publish. If Available from is in the future, the assignment is Scheduled and publishes itself at that time.

The assignment page: who has handed in, the class range and the details students see.

Rubrics

A rubric grades every student the same way. Each criterion (for example Working shown) has maximum points and levels such as Excellent, Good, Fair, Needs work and Missing, each with a description. Total points are added up for you.

  • Add criterion, Duplicate criterion and Add level to shape it.
  • Tick Save as template to reuse it on other assignments.

While grading, you click a level for each criterion and can leave a comment per criterion.

How a submission moves

  1. 1StudentDraftWrites, adds photos or files
  2. 2StudentHanded inMarked Late after the due date
  3. 3TeacherGradedScore and feedback reach the student
  4. 4TeacherOr sent backWith a note on what to fix
Work that is sent back can be fixed and handed in again. If you allow resubmissions, students can also hand in again after grading.

Students see a clear status on each assignment: Not submitted, Submitted, Late, Graded or Returned, with your feedback once it’s graded.

Late work and penalties

If late work is allowed, students handing in after the due date are warned that it will be marked late. With a penalty, the grading screen shows the penalty and the score that will be recorded, for example “With the late penalty (10%), 72 is recorded.”

Across all courses

The Assignments tab in the top bar lists assignments from every course you teach (or every course, for admins), with what’s due and what’s waiting to be graded, in a list or on a calendar.

Grade the work

See grading student work for the grading screen, rubrics in use, sending work back and keyboard shortcuts.

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