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Assignments Students use the Assignments tool to upload and submit assignments, eliminating the need to mail, fax, or email their work. Instructors can view/download submissions, check for plagiarism (via Turnitin), associate rubrics, and return submissions with grades and feedback. Instructors can also restrict access to assignment submission folders by date and time, group membership, or special access permissions.

Contents Assignments......................................................................................................... 1

Tutorial Videos ................................................................................................... 2 Assignment Basics .............................................................................................. 3

Create an Assignment Folder ....................................................................................... 3 Set Assignment Folder Visibility ................................................................................... 5 Edit or Delete Assignments.......................................................................................... 6 Set Availability and Due Dates ..................................................................................... 7 Reorder Assignment Folders ........................................................................................ 7 Restore Deleted Assignment Folders ............................................................................. 8

Assessing Assignment Submissions ...................................................................... 9 View the Submission Log ............................................................................................ 9 Add Feedback and Evaluations to Assignments ............................................................ 10 Annotate an Assignment ........................................................................................... 12

Assignments and Turnitin .................................................................................. 15 Enable Turnitin for an Assignment Folder .................................................................... 15 View Similarity Reports ............................................................................................. 16

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Tutorial Videos • Create an Assignment

• Associate an Assignment with a Grade Item

• Grade Submissions in Assignments

• Grade Assignment Submissions Offline

• Add Restrictions to an Assignment

• Create a Submission Folder & Enable TurnItIn

• Turnitin Integration - Assess an Assignment

• Create an Anonymous Assignment

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Assignment Basics

Create an Assignment Folder

1. On the navbar, click Assignments from the Assessments drop down menu.

2. On the Assignments page, click New Assignment.

3. Enter a Name for the assignment and Instructions for users and include any necessary attachments.

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4. Select an Assignment Type, Individual assignment or Group assignment. (Group assignment enables you to have one submission per group, but you must associate the assignment with a Group Category. Any group member can submit and view files for a group assignment.)

5. Select a Submission Type. a. For File submissions, set the number of Files Allowed Per Submission and the

Submissions rules. b. For Text submissions, set the Submission rules. c. For On paper submissions, set Marked as completed to one of the available

options, Manually by learners, Automatically on evaluation, or Automatically on due date.

d. For Observed in person assignments, set Marked as completed to one of the available options, Manually by learners, Automatically on evaluation, or Automatically on due date.

6. Do any of the following:

a. To receive an email message when a new submission is uploaded to this assignment, in the Notification Email field, enter your email address, or a comma-separated list of email addresses.

b. To associate the assignment with a category, select a Category or click New Category.

c. To assign a score, in the Score Out Of field enter a value. If there's also an associated grade item, maintain consistency by matching the value of the Out Of field to the grade item's Max. Points value.

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d. To associate the assignment with a grade item in your grade book, select a Grade Item, or click New Grade Item. Note that only numeric grade items can be associated with assignments.

e. To change the display settings for the assignment's grade item, click the Student View Preview context menu, then Edit Display Settings.

f. To associate a rubric to the assignment, click Add Rubric, or Create Rubric in New Window.

7. Click Save and Close.

Set Assignment Folder Visibility

When a new assignment folder is created, it defaults to the draft visibility state (noted by the crossed-out eye icon). Update the visibility settings to make the folder visible to users.

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1. Click the drop down arrow next to the Assignment folder title. Select Make Visible to Users and the draft (eye) icon will disappear.

Edit or Delete Assignments

1. On the navbar, click Assignments from the Assessments drop down menu.

2. To edit an assignments category (category rows are grey instead of white), click the Edit (pencil) icon. Make your changes and click Save. Click the Delete icon to delete the category.

3. To edit a folder, from the dropdown menu, click Edit Assignment. Make your changes and click Save and Close. Click the Delete Assignment to delete the folder.

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Set Availability and Due Dates

1. On the Assignments page, click Edit Assignment from the drop down menu of the appropriate folder.

2. In the Restrictions tab, select the Has Start Date, Has Due Date, and Has End

Date check boxes. Use the provided fields to set your dates.

3. Click Save and Close.

Reorder Assignment Folders

1. On the Assignments page, click Reorder from the More Actions button.

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2. Use the Sort Order drop-down lists to change the order in which your categories and folders display. Click Save.

Restore Deleted Assignment Folders

1. On the Assignments page, from the More Actions button, click Event Log.

2. For every folder you want to restore, click the Restore button.

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Assessing Assignment Submissions

View the Submission Log

The File Submission area of Assignments has a log that can be filtered to determine if and when a user submitted a file, and whether the user or instructor deleted the submission.

1. On the navbar, click Assignments from the Assessments drop down menu.

2. On the Assignments page click the drop down menu next to the folder you want to view. Select Submission Log.

3. Filter the log as applicable, by Submitted (shows all submissions), Deleted, Restored, or Started. Click Date to sort by date.

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Add Feedback and Evaluations to Assignments

The Submissions page enables you to evaluate and leave feedback for user submissions.

1. On the navbar, click Assignments from the Assessments drop down menu.

2. On the Assignments page, click View Submissions from the drop down menu of the appropriate folder.

3. On the Submissions page, usernames, submissions, and submission dates are visible. Click the submission title to view the student submission.

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4. You can view the submission, score the submission using an attached rubric or add an existing rubric, add a Score for the submission, and any additional Feedback, including text, audio, or video files.

5. Click Publish when you are finished or Save Draft to continue working. 6. Easily navigate to the next submission by clicking Next Student in the upper or

lower right-hand corner. Navigate back to all submissions by clicking Back to Submissions in the upper left-hand corner.

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Annotate an Assignment

Add feedback directly in submitted assignments using annotation tools. The Annotations Toolbar appears above the assignment submission within the Evaluate Submission screen. If additional feedback needs to be added after publishing, the instructor can update annotations and re-publish them.

Annotation Features There are many features available for Instructors within the Annotations tool bar when leaving inline contextual feedback for students.

• Inline Annotation: Using the cursor, highlight text directly on the submission and easily markup the document via an intuitive highlight menu with support for highlighting, strikethrough, and underlining.

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• Freehand Drawing and Eraser: Draw anywhere on a document. Move and resize, erase, and change appearance — including color, thickness, and opacity.

• Text Annotation: Add text anywhere on a document. Move, resize, and change appearance — including font, size, alignment, and color.

• Note Annotation: Add longer comments, which can be collapsed or expanded, to a document. Change appearance with a variety of shapes and colors.

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• Sidebar: Choose from three sidebar options — Thumbnails, Outline, or Bookmarks — to get an overview of the content in a document. Show and hide the sidebar at any time, resize it, or expand it into a full gallery view.

• Settings: Use Page Rotation to quickly reorient the document so it displays as expected.

• Delete Annotations: Select the annotation you wish to delete and click the trashcan icon in the upper-right corner.

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Assignments and Turnitin

Enable Turnitin for an Assignment Folder

1. Create a new assignment or edit an existing assignment and click the Turnitin tab. 2. Check Enable GradeMark for this folder. 3. Choose to Automatically or Manually sync grades entered in Turnitin with

Brightspace (D2L). 4. If desired, click to Enable Originality Check for this folder to enable Turnitin’s

similarity report. Select the Display and Frequency settings. 5. To set advanced options, click More Options in Turnitin. This opens the Turnitin

Assignment window. 6. Click Save and Close.

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7. The Turnitin icon will appear next to assignment folders enabled with Turnitin.

View Similarity Reports

You can view Similarity Reports from the Assignment Submissions page. When a report is available, the status changes from In-Progress to a percentage rating, which indicates the level of matching content.

1. On the Assignments page, click View Submissions from the drop down menu of the appropriate folder.

2. Click the colored percentage rating to view the associated Similarity Report in a new window.

For more information on using Turnitin, visit our Turnitin Feedback Studio Resource page (link opens in a new window).