Creating and grading assessments (Video Guide)

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• Create your assignments in the course content page. It’s a good idea to create a designated assessment folder and link to the assessments from the appropriate unit folders.

• You can copy over assignments from a previous course (Ultra or Original) or create a new one.

• Once an assignment is live and has been accessed by a student, you cannot edit the assignment instructions or add assignment groups (but you can change the due date, grade category, and grading rubric). If you need to make changes, you can make a copy of your assignment.

• If an assessment is hidden, students won’t see the assessment in their course content, gradebook, or calendar.

• Under the option of release conditions, you can adjust release conditions and variances for specific people and groups.

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• You can add due dates for assignments, or choose to have no due date at all.

• You can collect submissions offline in class, but you can grade them via the gradebook. Make sure to click “1 attempt”.

• Students will get automatic zeros for late assignments, even though you are collecting assignments offline. Grades will have to be entered manually to override the zero or the instructor can add a submission on their behalf and adjust the submission date.

• You can post assessment grades automatically, which means students get their results as soon as you grade.

• You can add or edit rubrics. You can create a new one, or use a previous one.

• For group assignments, one student can submit on behalf of their group.

Not in video: Reminder, Automatic zero is a global setting; adjust from the gradebook

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• Set up your group sets in Course Groups. For ease, give the groups a descriptive name (ie: the topic or the names of the group members).

• In settings, click Assign to groups and choose the appropriate group set under Reuse groups.

• Students can see the name of their group for group assignments in Course Content.

• You can assign discussions to group members in the same way as assignments.

• Students can view their groups attached to their group assignments or discussions, as well as in Groups in Details & Actions. Students are not able to see who is in other groups.

• Submitting group assignments:

  • Only one student can be viewing the group assignment at a time.

  • When another student enters the assignment, they can request to Take control. The student viewing the assignment can either Ignore or Give Control.

  • When a student clicks ‘submit’, the assignment is submitted for all students in the group.

  • All students can view the submission.

• Using group discussions:

  • Instructors can toggle between group discussions.

  • A blue symbol indicates when there are new discussion posts.

  • Students can only access group discussion forums they are a member of.

  • Students can click on their instructor’s name on the right panel, and all their contributions will be highlighted in purple.

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• You can copy rubrics from a previous course using the + sign in course content. You can copy your entire rubrics folder, or select a specific rubric.

• You can choose the rubric you want for each assessment from the gradebook or assignment page.

• Use the + symbol to edit as necessary.

• You can create, add, or copy rubrics in the gradebook.

• For rubrics with percentage ranges, the criteria total must total 100%.

• To grade assignments, you can grade according to the rubric alongside the student’s submission.

• Students are able to see how they scored according to the instructor’s rubric.