ASSIGNMENTS: CREATE Assignments

How do I create an Assignment?

An instructional video is included for this subject. This instructional video will provide a step-by-step explanation about how you can create an assignment. Below the video you will find the written manual.

CONTENT
  • Create an assignment 
  • Types of assignments
  • Evaluation and feedback

Create an Assignment

  • Click  Assignments in the navbar of your course. You will land on the Assignments homepage, wherein an overview of all assignments will be displayed. 
  • Click New Assignment.
 
  1. Provide the assignment with a title: this will be displayed on the Assignments homepage. 
  2. You can explain a bit more about the assignment by adding a short instruction in the html-editor.
  3. Under Attachments you can also add assignment instructions: 
    • Click Add Attachment to upload a File, place an external Link or a Brightspace short-cut to an Existing Activity.
    • Click Record Audio to upload or record an audio message (if your desktop has a microphone).
    • Click Record Video to upload or record a video message (if your desktop has a webcam).



Types of assignments

  1. Select under Assignment Type what type of assignment it concerns:
    • Click Individual assignment if students need to hand in their assignments individually and are assessed individually as well. 
    • Choose Group assignment if students need to hand in one assignment as a group for which they will all receive the same group mark. Select a group under Group Category.
  2. Select under Submission type which ways students can hand in their assignments: 
    • File submission: students submit their assignments by uploading it in a file (for example a Word- or PDF-file).
    • Text submission: students post a text, image or link to their work in a text box in the assignment (for example when students had to make a web page, they can post the link here)
    • On paper submission: students hand in their assignment via a hard copy and do not have to upload it in the Assignment. By using this option you can still process the feedback of the hard copy assignments to the grade book.
    • Observed in person: you will observe the student on their execution of certain tasks during class (for example during a presentation or an assessment) and will then process the assessment afterwards. Neither you or the student have to upload a file in the assignment. By using this option you can still process the feedback of presentations and assessments in the grade book.

You will now get additional options based on the submission type you have selected. 

File submission

  1. Select under Files Allowed Per Submission if students are allowed to upload multiple files (Unlimited) or only one (One File).
  2. Select under Submissions if all submission attempts are saved (All submission are kept), only the most recent attempts are saved (Only the most recent submission is kept) or if student are only allowed one submission attempt (Only one submission allowed).



Text submission

  • Select under Submissions if all submission attempts are saved (All submission are kept), only the most recent attempts are saved (Only the most recent submission is kept) or if student are only allowed one submission attempt (Only one submission allowed).

On paper submission and Observed in person

With these two options the student only sees the title and description of the assignment and possibly the linked rubric.

Select under Marked as completed which way you want Brightspace to mark an assignment as completed:

  • Manually by learners: students mark the assignment as completed themselves.
  • Automatically on evaluation: the assignment is automatically marked as completed as soon as you have assessed it. 
  • Automatically on due date: the assignment will automatically mark the assignment as completed as soon as the deadline has passed. 
  1. If you want to receive an email when a student has submitted something in the assignment, fill in your email address under Notification Email. Separate multiple email addresses with a comma. 
  2. Select at Category under which category the assignment falls (for example video-assignments).

  3. Evaluation and feedback

    1. You can indicate how many points a student can get for the assignment at Score Out Of. If you attach the assignment to a grade item, you always have to fill in a number at Score Out Of. Make sure that the max. score you fill in here, matches the max. score of the grade item. 
    2. Indicate at Grade Item whether you want to attach the assignment to a grade item in the grade book (if so: which one). NOTE: CREATING GRADE ITEMS WILL BE DISCUSSED IN ANOTHER TUTORIAL. You can skip this step as of the moment. 
    3. Under Student View Preview you can select the way in which a student's score is displayed to them (achieved score out of max. score, symbols, colors etc.).
    4. Use Rubrics to add a rubric if you want to. Click Add Rubric to add a previously made rubric or click Create Rubric in New Window to add a new rubric. NOTE: CREATING RUBRICS WILL BE DISCUSSED IN ANOTHER TUTORIAL. You can skip this step as of the moment. 
    5. Via the dropdown-menu under Default Scoring Rubric you can add a default rubric (if you have created a standard rubric for the assignment).
    6. Tick Allow users to add this folder to their ePortfolio if you want to give students the opportunity to add this assignment to their ePortfolio. 
    7. Tick Hide student names during assessment if you want students names to not be shown at completed assignments. You will not be able to see which student handed in which assignment. 
    8. Make annotation tools available for assessment is checked by default. If you do not want to use annotations, uncheck this option. Note: this means that no grader in the course can use annotations.
    9. Click Save and Close to return to the Assignments homepage.

    Make assignment visible for students

    New assignments will be invisible by default for students. You can make them visible with Restrictions. 

    1. Click the Resctrictions tab.
    2. Hide from users is selected by default, deselect this box. The assignment will now be visible for students.

    QUESTIONS?
        
        If you have any questions, clarifications, comments, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact me 
    (I have given you my contact info via email). 

        Thank you for participating and have a pleasant day ahead. :)

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