The Course Management System now incorporates an Assignment functionality that allows instructors to add specialized content to their course site. Assignments are automatically added to the Grade Center, easily incorporate attached files as well as the student submitting files, and the instructor can track individual students’ progress.

To Create an Assignment:

• From the Control Panel of your site, click the content area in which you wish to add an Assignment
• In the upper right hand corner of your screen use the pull-down menu to select Assignment and Click Go
• Enter a Name, Instructions and a Point Value for the Assignment
• Configure the Availability Options
• From here you can control when the Assignment becomes available for students to complete
• If your students will be completing and resubmitting a document, attach it in area 3, Assignment Attachments
• Click Submit, click OK

Note: Your students will be unable to complete this Assignment until it is made available.

To Make an Assignment available:

Note: These steps are only necessary only if you neither made your Assignment available upon creation nor set a date for your Assignment to become available

• In the content area that houses the Assignment, click Modify next to that assignment
• Under Availability Options, click “Yes” next to Do you want to make the assignment visible?
• Click Submit, click OK

To View a Student’s progress on an Assignment:

• In the Grade Center, you should see a padlock in the score column of the Assignment for any student who has begun the assignment
• Click on the padlock

To grade a completed Assignment:

• In the Grade Center, a red exclamation point (!) indicates a completed Assignment that needs grading. Click the red exclamation point (!)
• Click View
• From here you can view the students submitted files, give the student a grade, feedback, attach files to your feedback, or clear the attempt if the student has to do the Assignment again
• Click Submit, click OK

Other Options :

• By clicking on the Assignment’s name in the Grade Center, a host of other option are available:
• Item Grade List – A list of all students’ grades for this item
• Item Download – Download the files that students have attached to their Assignment
• Item File Clean Up – Delete files that students have uploaded as parts of the Assignment