- Assignment quick guide
- Assignment settings
- Using Assignment
- Assignment FAQ
What is the Assignment activity?
Assignments allow users to submit work to their instructor for grading. The work may be text typed online or uploaded files of any type the instructor’s device can read. Grading may be by simple percentages or custom scales, or more complex rubrics may be used. Users may submit as individuals or in groups.
How is it set up?
- In a course, with the editing turned on, choose ‘Assignment’ from the activity chooser.
- Give it a name and, in the description explain what the users must submit. You can upload a help or example document from the Additional files area.
- Expand the other settings to select, for example, availability times, how you want them to submit and how you plan to give them feedback. (Comment inline allows you to annotate directly on their submitted work.)
- If you want them to verify they are submitting their own work, or if you want to prevent them changing their submission once uploaded, explore the Submission settings. To have them submit in the group, explore Group submission settings (ensuring your course has groups)
- To use a rubric instead of a single grade scale, change the Grading method to Rubric and, once the assignment is saved, create or locate the rubric from the Advanced grading link in the Assignment administration block on the side.
Note: Ask your administrator to check the assignment defaults if you are missing a particular setting.
How does it work?
User view
- Users click the assignment link and click “Add submission” (1)
- Depending on the assignment settings, they either have a text box into which to type their work or an upload area to submit their file (2)
- They may be able to return to their work and redraft it, or they might have to click a submit button to send in a final version which cannot be changed.
- See Assignment settings for more information.
Instructor view:
- Once users have submitted work, click on the assignment and click “Grades”
- The exact view depends on the instructor and admin settings. See Assignment settings for more detail.
- Here, the submission may be annotated (1) and/or downloaded (2); a grade entered (3) and individual feedback is given (4). The instructor saves the changes (5) and moves to the next user (6)
Need more information?
LMS’s assignment has many useful features. If you haven’t found what you need in this quick guide, try the full detailed documentation pages here: