Powerschool Knowledge Article
Created Date: December 29, 2016
Schoology: How To Create An Assignment
To create an assignment, use the Add Materials button at the top of your Course Materials page. You can also access the Add Materials button from within a folder.
- Click Add Materials.
- Select Add Assignment.
- Fill out the Create Assignment form.
- Enter a Description. Here, you can enter directions your students will need to complete the assignment
- Set a Due Date to place the assignment in the Course Calendar and Upcoming area.This will also enable Overdue notifications if a student fails to submit the assignment by the due date.
- Select a Grading Category from the dropdown. If you do not select a grading category, it will default to Ungraded, and will not appear in your gradebook.
- Select a Scale or Rubric from the dropdown menu. To learn more about grading scales and rubrics, see our article on Setting Up Your Gradebook.
- Advanced Options
Use Advanced Options to turn on/off the following features:- Use Individually Assign to only display the assignment to a specific member of the course or a grading group.
- Align Learning Objectives to add a custom learning objective, common core, or state standard.
Enterprise users: Once you have aligned your material with learning objectives, use the Mastery tool to track your students' progress - Lock prevents students from making submissions. You may want to lock the assignment after the due date has passed.
- Enable Submissions: Click the dropbox icon to provide an area for students to submit work. You can opt to disable submissions if the assignment does not require something in return from the student - for example, reading homework.
- Published to student: opt to show or hide the assignment from the student view.
- Grade Statistics displays the statistics for the assignments to students, which is located in an icon above assignment submissions.
- Enable Comments: This allows students to comment on the assignment.
- Click Create
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Once you click Create, the description and any additional files or links will appear on the assignment, along with the Submissions and comment tools. From this screen, you can manage assignment submissions, grade students, and participate in the comments area.
Assignment Submissions
When a student makes a submission to an assignment, you will receive a notification at the top of your home screen:
The Submissions feature is located in the right column of the Assignment. You can also access it by clicking the Assignment listed in the Calendar. Use this area to manage student-submitted files.
Submitted files are organized by On Time and Late, based on the assignment's Due Date. You can download or view each individual file, or you can download all assignments in a bulk .zip file.
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