Assignments: Adding and Managing (The Class Page)

This article will discuss adding or importing an assignment, adding assignment details, editing an assignment, and managing assignments for a specific class. There are several different places to get to your assignments, including Grade Book and Assignment Center.

Add a New Assignment    

Assignment Center

From the Assignment Center (by clicking "Assignments" on the Class Page), you will see a blue Add button. Click this to select the option for Assignment. 

Gradebook

You can also use the "add assignment" button at the top of the gradebook page:

Import Assignments or Copy an Existing Assignment

If you would like to add a previously created assignment to this class, you can use the "Import Assignment" option in the Assignment Center. You can import from any class that has previously been offered, even if you were not the teacher. You can also import from the current class to itself in order to make a copy of an assignment from earlier in the course:

Assignment details

1) Title: Use a short title, and put the details under Description. (It counts the number of characters for you.) This title will appear in the Assignment Center.

2) Description: Explain the details of the assignment.This text will not appear in the Assignment Center, but will be available when the reader clicks on the Title text.

3) Type: Choose whether this is a homework, paper, quiz, reading, etc. Your Grade Book will count the assignment in the grade ONLY if the letters (GB) follow the assignment type. When you set up your grade book, you allot various types of assignment a percentage of your grade. (GB) lets you know that an assignment type is part of the grade.

4) Assignment notifications: Please activate notifications for each assignment. This will alert students when the assignment has been created, changed, or marked as missing, and will help them take responsibility for their learning.

Evaluation, Attachments, Links, and Learning Tools

5) Evaluation: Set the assignment to show in the gradebook. 

• Enter an Abbreviation for the assignment (this will show up at the top of the assignment's column in your grade book table).
• Set the Evaluation Method to Total score only. 
  • Note: If master evaluation is not turned on you, won't see this option at all.
  • If you are interested in using mastery evaluation, contact a member of the Academic Tech Team.
• Enter the Maximum number of Points students can earn on this assignment. When you record grades, you will record the number of points each student earned. SIS calculates the percentage. 
  • Note - Do not set the maximum to zero as this can break the formulas for cumulative averages.
• Factor: Here you can have your grade book count a particular assignment differently than other assignments of the same type. You can have it count half, a quarter or double by entering the appropriate decimal or integer into "Factor."
• "Add to Grade Book," "Add to Cum. Grade" and "Publish Grade" are generally checked by default. If you are not going to give the assignment a grade, uncheck "Add to Grade Book." Check "Extra Credit" if appropriate.
• NOTE: You may see the 

6) Attachments and Links: Upload files or enter URLs for students to use as resources.

7) Learning Tool: You can assign a EdPuzzle to this assignment. Students have a link to go to the EdPuzzle and if there is a grade earned with the EdPuzzle, it will be imported to SIS. Once a learning tool is selected it is permanently added to the assignment and it can not be edited or removed.

File Submission, Assignment Instances, Publishing Options

 

8) File Submission: This feature allows students to submit their work online - either by typing an answer in a text box or by uploading attachments. Click "In-system submission" to use this feature. If you would like students to attach files (including sharing through Google) set the "number of files per student" to one or greater. If the number of files is set to zero, the student will have to type into a text box.

See this article for more about sharing through Google.

9) Assignment Instances: If the assignment is going to repeat on a weekly basis (this won't work for cyclical assignments unfortunately), you can use this feature to automatically enter the assignment each week or even each day.

10) Publishing Options: At the bottom of the page, check the sections to which the assignment applies, input a due date and due time, change the assigned date or Publish Date if necessary. If you would like the assignment to apply to more than one of your classes, click the "Add More" button at the bottom of the page and navigate to the desired sections.

You also have the ability to change the assigned time and due time. Instructions here.

When you're done creating this assignment, click "Save".

Edit an Assignment

1. Open the assignment by clicking the three dots icon next to the assignment and click "edit".
   
   
2. You can now modify any of the information that you see.
   Note: the notifications option then moves to the bottom of the screen where you can set "Notify" per assigned sections.
   
   

Managing Assignments for a Specific Class

1. Go to a class page, and click on the "Assignments" tab.
2. You will see a list of all assignments for this class. If the assignments you are looking for do not appear, you need to adjust the "Filter"to incorporate the relevant dates.
   
   
   
   
3. You can also choose to filter by "Assignment Type" as well. 
   
   
4. The table of assignments can be sorted by clicking the title in a column. Clicking the title again will reverse the sort order.