Assignments

The Assignments area of your course lists any graded work to be submitted to you  by your students. It is a teacher-student exchange and can't be shared with other students. Examples of graded work may include (but certainly not limited to): written papers, graded discussion postings, quizzes, tests, or exams. If this sounds like it overlaps with other tools you are right. If the discussion, quiz, or paper is graded or assessed in a way that will add to the gradebook, it becomes an assignment and will be listed under the tool like discussions and under assignments.

Know that Assignment groups  and group assignments are two distinctly different things. Assignment Groups are categories of assignments like Journals, Weekly Quizzes, Homework, or Participation. They are frequently the topics/components which are weighted to create the final grade. Group assignments  are assignments where the students are separated into smaller groups to provide better levels of interaction. 

 

This is a narrated PowerPoint with assignment design pointers and examples from many disciplines. Please click on the title to download it. There are notes are included if you would rather read the document.

 

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Tips and Features

Includes Assignments Index page, assignment groups, and assignment creation. 

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How to grade an assignment is under grading/gradebook

 

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