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About Assignments
You can use the Assignments tool to create and edit assignments, see users’ submission times, view submissions on the Evaluate Submission page, associate assignments to rubrics and competencies, and return submissions with grades and feedback. For assignments that included file submissions, you can download the submissions…
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Create an assignment
Provide more efficient, timely, and meaningful grading and feedback. Create and edit assignments, see submission details, view submissions, associate assignments to rubrics and competencies, and return submissions with grades and feedback. On paper and observed in person assignment formats are also available. The Create…
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Set availability and due dates for an assignment
You can set availability and due dates for an assignment and schedule their visibility. It helps to prevent late submissions and allow view assignment information and submissions after it ends. Tip: You can set assignment availability dates without setting a due date. Conversely, you can set a due date without setting…
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Set release conditions for an assignment
Release conditions allow you to associate an assignment with other items in Brightspace. For example, you can require that users meet some criteria, such as reading a set of lecture notes in Content, before they can submit their work to an assignment. You can also make submission to the assignment a criterion for accessing…
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Add and Edit categories to manage assignments
Organize your assignments into categories to make it easier for students to navigate to the appropriate assignment. For example, you can create separate categories for course units, summative projects, bonus assignments, and individual submissions. Your new category will appear on the Assignments page only if there are…
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Copy an existing assignment
You can quickly create new assignments from existing assignments using the Copy Assignment option. This feature copies all settings of an existing assignment except the associated grade item and Turnitin settings. To copy an existing assignment Navigate to Assignments. Click the check box to select an assignment, and then…
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Align learning outcomes to assignments
Learning Outcomes are not compatible with Competencies and Learning Objectives. When Learning Outcomes are associated with a course, the ability to use Learning Objectives in Assignments is not available. To align learning outcomes to assignments Navigate to Assignments. From the Actions menu of the assignment that you…
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Copy assignments to other courses
Instructors who teach multiple courses can now copy assignments to other courses. To copy assignments, you must be enrolled in both the source and destination course with a role having the permission Assignments > Copy to Other Courses in order to copy from source to destination. Note: The permission is turned Off for all…
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Preview assignments in Evaluation mode
To edit assignments, a user specifically requires edit permissions. However, there are some instances when evaluators without those edit permissions need to be able to view assignment information, such as assignment instructions, start dates, and end dates. To preview assignments in Evaluation mode In Evaluation mode,…
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Hide draft assignments and content
You can set the visibility state for draft content within assignments in Content and Assignments. When content is in a draft state, it is not visible to students in Brightspace. When teachers have set the visibility to draft, the hidden icon appears in the teacher view for the content. In Content, when teachers add…