Create an assignment

Create an assignment

Assignments offer interactive opportunities for students to demonstrate their understanding of your lessons.

Assignments are graded assessments that can be used for student practice or count towards student Gradebooks.

The Assignment Editor is used to generate assignments and has 3 components:

• The Choose Name tab to name your new assignment.

• The Select Questions tab to define your assignment questions.

• The Properties tab to define the assignment properties.

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Assignment Editor's Choose Name tab

Creating a new assignment begins with the Choose Name tab of the Assignment Editor.

To create a new assignment:

1. Click Content Repository on the Class Homepage.

2. Click Create New on the main Content Repository menu.

3. Hover your cursor over Assignment on the Create New menu to reveal a list of all available units in your class.

4. Click the unit that you want to build your new assignment in.

5. You are brought to the Assignment Editor's Choose Name tab.

6. Define the assignment name.

7. Define a short name of the assignment.

8. Define a description of the assignment.

9. Define the text to show at the head of each page of the assignment.

10. Define the text to show on the results page of the assignment after it is submitted.

11. Click Save.

12. Click 2. Select Questions to add questions to your assignment.

Assignment Editor's Select Questions tab

Add questions to your assignment using the Select Questions tab of the Assignment Editor.

You can add questions to your assignment by:

• Importing questions

• Creating new questions

• Creating new question groups

Import questions into your assignment

1. Click Import Question.

2. The Content Repository opens. Click Questions and navigate to where the questions you want to import are stored.

3. Select the check boxes of the questions that you want to import.

4. Click Import.

5. The imported questions now appear in the Navigation pane of the Assignment Editor.

6. Click the Points box to manually define the scoring weight of the question.

7. Click the Add arrow to add more questions to your assignment.

8. Click Save when you are done.

Create new questions in your assignment

1. Click New Question.

2. The Question Editor opens. Design your new question.

3. Click the Save icon in the Question Editor.

4. Your new question now appears in the Navigation pane of the Assignment Editor.

5. Click the Points box to manually define the scoring weight of the question.

6. Click the Add arrow to add more questions to your assignment.

7. Click Save when you are done.

Create a new question group in your assignment

Question group — A defined subset of questions selected from the Content Repository that can be used in an activity.

1. Click New Question Group.

2. The new Group appears in the Navigation pane of the Assignment Editor.

3. Click the Group arrow to decide what function to use for this new question group:

   • Click Import Question to copy questions from the Content Repository just like you would do for a question that isn't in a question group.

   • Click New Question to create a new question just like you would do for a question that isn't in a question group.

4. Click Properties in the Group menu to:

   • Edit the name of the question group.

   • Select the Randomly select n question(s) to display check box to display only a random subset of questions from the question group to the student.

• Choose whether to randomize the order of questions in the question group when displayed to the student.

• Assign the scoring weight of each question in the question group.

5. Click Save in the Group Properties window.

6. Click the Add arrow to add more questions to your assignment.

7. Click Save when you are done.