When you create an assignment, you can:

add assignment instructions and content
control assignment visibility to students
apply assignment settings

Assignment Settings

If any students in your course have accommodations, they appear in the Assignment Settings section. You can set accommodations for students and make them exempt from certain course requirements, such as assignment due dates and time limits. To modify accommodations, go to the Roster and open a student’s menu. You can also access it from the Submission page or Gradebook.

On the right-hand side of the New Assignment page, under Assignment Settings, you can view the settings selected for your assignment. To choose and apply different settings, select the Settings button to open a new panel.

Details & Information

The section Details & Information provides options for assignment submission.

Provide a due date. Due dates appear on the calendar and in the activity stream. Late submissions appear with a Late label in the course gradebook. You can prohibit students from submitting work after the due date.

Prohibit late submissions. Enforce a hard deadline and prevent a late submission. In-progress and saved attempts will auto-submit at the due date. Students will receive a submission receipt email.

If students have submitted attempts, you cannot change the due date to a date in the past. If the due date has passed, you can’t select the Prohibit late submission setting.

Allow class conversations. What if your students have questions about an assignment? You can allow conversations within an assignment, and anyone can contribute. As the conversation develops, it appears only with the relevant assignment.

Grading & Submissions

Grading & Submissions provides options for assignment type and grading criteria.

Change the grade category. You can change the assignment’s grade category to be part of one of the custom gradebook categories you set up in your course. You can create new categories to customize how coursework is grouped in your course. Custom categories can be useful when you set up the overall grade.

Determine the number of attempts. You can let your students submit more than one attempt at an assignment. When you allow multiple attempts, you can also choose how the final grade is calculated.

Select the grading schema. From the Grade using menu, select an existing grading schema such as Points. You can change the grading schema at any time, and the change will appear to students and in your gradebook.

Set Maximum points. Add a number value between 0 and 99,999 for your assignment. If you leave this field blank, the number will default to 100.

Enable assessment grade. Automatically post a student’s grade once grading is completed. Turn the setting off if you want to manually control grade publication.

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Edit and reorder assignments

You can make changes to existing assignments and change where they appear on your Course Content page. Be aware that if you change an existing assignment that students can access, some students may have started their submissions. You can’t change the grading schema if you’ve already started grading.

Select the Move button in an assignment’s row and move it to a new location. You can also move an assignment into a folder.

In an assignment’s row, open the menu to select Edit or Delete.

You can use your keyboard to move an assignment.

Tab to an item’s Move button (the button is two vertical arrows: one pointing up, one pointing down).
Press Enter to activate move mode.
Use the arrow keys to choose a location.
Press Enter to drop the item in the new location.

Delete assignments

You can delete an assignment from your course and if no student submissions exist, the gradebook item is also deleted. For assignments with submissions, you must confirm that you want to permanently remove the assignment, all submissions, and grades from your course.

Or, hide the assignment from students to preserve the submissions and the scores in the Gradebook. Students can’t access hidden assignments on the Course Content page or on their grades pages even if you have graded submissions.

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This article was created and is maintained by the Office of Academic Technology

If you have found an error in this article, or if you need assistance incorporating this article into your course, please contact the Educational Technology Support Team.