Assign Custom Assessments

Saved custom assignments with items added can be assigned to your students and classes.

Warning: Once a custom assessment is assigned, it can no longer be modified.

To assign a custom assessment:

1. Open the custom assessment to be assigned.

a. Click the Discover tab and My Stuff tab, and then on the left Browse By panel, click the My Assessments link. The My Assessments page appears listing your saved assessments.

My Assessments page with saved assessments listed

b. In the My Assessments list, click the assessment to be assigned. The selected assessment opens.

2. Click Assign button

. The Create Assignment dialog box appears.

3. Complete the assignment fields as follows:

Field

Action

Title

➔ Type a different title for the assignment, if needed.

Start Date

This is the date that the assignment will be available to the selected students.

Note that the start date defaults to the current date.

➔ Click the calendar icon and select a different start date, if needed.

Calendar selection box

Due Date

Note that the due date defaults to seven days (1 week) from the current date.

➔ Click the calendar icon and select a different due date, if needed.

Directions (Optional)

➔ Type instructions for the students to follow while completing the assignment.

Assign To

a. From the list, select the Students tab to assign to a class (or classes) and/or select the Groups tab to assign to a group (or groups).

b. If you want to view the list of students in the class or the individual groups within a collection of groups, click the line containing that class or group.

By default, the check boxes for all the students in the class are checked, indicating that all students in the class are selected to receive the assignment, as shown here.

If you select a group, all of the individual groups within that collection are selected, as shown here.

c. If you prefer to create the assignment for only some of the students in the class (or some of the groups within a collection of groups), clear the check box beside any student (or group) that is not to receive this assignment. In the example below, the teacher chose not to create this assignment for two students—Jack London and Mark Twain.

Create Assignment dialog box showing all but two students selected for a class

4. Click Assign button

. The custom assignment is created.

On the designated start date, it appears in the student's Assignments Overview page as "Not Started.” This page sorts all student assignments by the earliest upcoming due date.

You can view the status of the assessment on the Assignments page. After students have completed the assessment, you can view the results by opening the Reports tab and selecting the program to which it was associated.