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WebCT
Faculty Tip Sheets
Assignments
Assignments allows you to create and distribute course assignments to your students, and download, evaluate, and assign a grade to the completed work. First, add the assignment, then enter the instructions about the assignment, assign a maximum grade to inform the students of the assignment's value, and set the time and dates for which you want the assignment to be available. You can also attach assignment-related files such as photographs, a spreadsheet you want the student to modify, or articles to which you want students to respond. Students can then view the assignment instructions, submit their completed work, and view their grade after you have graded their assignment. For information on viewing and grading student submissions, please visit the Assignments - Student Submissions tip sheet.
To add the Assignment tool to your course:
- From the Control Panel, select Add Page or Tool.
- In the Evaluation & Activity Tools column, click Assignments. The Add Assignments screen appears.
- In the Enter a title for this item text box, enter the title as you want it to appear below the icon.
- Under Decide where to show the link to this item, select where you want the link to be displayed.
- Click Add. The Assignment tool is added to your course.
To add an assignment:
- From the Assignments screen, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- Under Options: Assignment, click Add. The Add Assignment screen appears.
- In the Assignment Title text box, enter the title of the new assignment, and click Add. The Assignments screen appears and the new assignment title appears as a link.
To display assignments by status:
From the Assignments screen, under Assignments, from the Display drop-down list, select the status by which you want to display assignments:
- If you want to display all assignments, select All assignments and click Go.
- If you want to display all available assignments, select All assignments that are available and click Go.
- If you want to display all assignments that have a due date within 48 hours or less, select All assignments that are due soon and click Go.
- If you want to display all late assignments, select All assignments that are late and click Go.
To specify assignment settings:
- From the Assignments screen, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- Click the name of the assignment. The Assignment screen appears. This screen displays the Maximum grade, the Due date for the assignment, and Instructions for the completion of the assignment. Assignment-related files are also listed on this screen.
- Under Options, click Edit assignment settings. The Assignment Settings screen appears.
- Under Basic settings, enter the assignment:
- Title
- Instructions (Note: You can use HTML to create a link to an assignment you have created and uploaded to a server. If you choose to do this, you must enter the entire URL for the page.)
- Maximum grade
- Under Availability, select the dates and times that the assignment will be available.
- For Available starting, select Immediately or specify a starting date and time.
- For Due date select Unlimited or specify a due date and time. Note: If you select Unlimited as the Due date, you cannot also enable Allow late submissions under Cutoff Date. This would be redundant. A warning message will alert you if you have enabled both.
- For Cutoff Date, select whether to allow late submissions or not, then select Unlimited to indicate no cutoff date for late submissions, or specify a date up to which late submissions will be allowed.
- If you allow late submissions, with no cutoff date, the Assignment screen for that assignment will display a 'Late' notice next to the assignment once the due date (not the cutoff date, as none was specified) is passed. Students will also see a 'Late' notice next to the assignment, but will continue to be able to submit. On the marker's Grade Assignment screen, a 'Late' status will be displayed for that assignment.
- If you allow late submissions, with a cutoff date, the Assignment screen for that assignment will display a 'Late' notice next to the assignment once the due date is passed. Students will still be able to submit up to the cutoff date. Once the cutoff date is reached, the status of the assignment will become 'Unavailable', and students will no longer be able to submit. On the marker's Grade Assignment screen, a 'Late' status will be displayed for that assignment.
- Under Submissions, select whether or not to allow multiple submissions.
- If you allow multiple submissions, students will be able to retrieve an assignment prior to its due date, and prior to it being graded, and then resubmit it for grading. Student can retrieve/resubmit as many times as they like.
- Under Results:
- For Student score release, select from the following score release options:
- Release the score once the assignment has been graded
- Release the score once the availability period has ended and the assignment has been graded
- Do not release the score
- For Release Column, select whether or not you want to release the assignment column to students. This will allow your students to see their assignment grades in My Grades.
- Note: Depending on administrator settings, you may or may not see a Notification section. If you do not see this section, skip to step 9.
In the Notification section, choose whether or not WebCT will email students and instructors acknowledgment when an assignment is submitted. Note: Students see or do not see this feature in their interface, depending upon whether you choose to enable this feature for students. For Student notification, select whether or not students will receive an email acknowledgment after submitting an assignment. For Instructor notification, select whether or not the instructor will receive an email acknowledgment after a student submits an assignment.
- Click Update. The assignment settings are updated.
To import an assignment-related file:
You can import assignment-related files such as photographs, a spreadsheet you want the student to modify, or articles to which you want students to respond. Note: You must have previously created and uploaded the file(s) to your My-Files folder, before it can be attached to your assignment. For instructions on uploading, please see the Uploading a File tip sheet.
- From Assignments, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- From the list of assignments, click the assignment to which you want to import a file. The Assignment screen appears.
- Under Options, under Import assignment file, in the text box, enter the path and filename of the file that you want to import, or to select the file, click Browse. The WebCT Browser appears. Select the file. The filename of the selected file appears in the text box.
- Click Import. The screen refreshes to show the newly imported file.
To remove assignment-related files:
- From Assignments, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- From the list of assignments, click the name of the assignment from which you want to remove a file. The Assignment screen appears.
- Select the file(s) you want to remove.
- Under Options, click Remove. A warning message appears.
- Click OK. A final warning message appears.
- Click OK. The file is removed.
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