Assignment Center

The Assignment Center is the central location where faculty and students view assignments, assessments, and graded discussions for all courses. Faculty access their Assignment Center by selecting My Day, then Assignment Center.

In the upper right, use the icons to switch between Calendar and List view.

Preferences

Tip: Use Preferences to set your default view of Assignment lists in the Assignment Center and class Assignments tab. Use Filter and Columns to change these list views temporarily.

In List view, select More > Preferences to set your assignment creation preferences and view defaults for the following:

  • Assignment creation: Set your default preferences for creating assignments, including Add to gradebook default, Add to cumulative grade default, and Publish grade default. Under Add assignment defaults and Add discussion defaults, you can also select specific sections of the Add Assignment and Add Discussion modals to collapse by default. These preferences are used when creating assignments from the list view for both the Assignment Center and the Assignments tab on class pages.

  • Assignment lists: Set list view defaults for your Assignment Center and Section assignments list view. You can determine which assignments display based on the due dates and publish status, as well as the sort order of your list views.

    Tip: The Assignment Center list defaults control your list view defaults in the Assignment Center only. The Section assignment list defaults control your list view defaults on the Assignments tab of your classes.

  • Assignment imports: Set permissions for who can import your assignments. By default, Allow all teachers to import your assignments will be selected. You can also select Do not allow others to import your assignments or Allow selected teachers to import your assignments.

  • Google Drive: Set your notification preferences for receiving notifications when a student shares a Google Drive file. This will only affect teachers that have their Google Drive linked to their email address.

  • Evaluation: If you want the Incomplete and Missing indicators removed from an assignment once it is graded, enable the options to remove these statuses upon committing a grade.

    Note: These Evaluation preferences are user-based. For instance, if faculty members co-teach a class, one faculty member may elect to remove the Incomplete and Missing indicators upon saving a grade while the other faculty member does not. The preference of the user committing the grade is respected.

Filter and Columns

Use Filter and Columns when you need to temporarily update your Assignment Center list view outside of your default preferences. You can select Filter to change the Assignment due date and Publish status filters, as well as narrow down the included assignments by Assignment type and Class section. Select Columns to choose the information that displays for each assignment.

Tip: We recommend including the Details column in your customized view of the Assignment Center. A link to the Assignment details page is available from the Details column. You can grade assignments from here.

To reset the Filters and Columns to your default preferences, select More > Return to default view.

More options

In addition to Preferences and Return to default view, you also have these options under More:

  • Calendar feeds: Use to import your assignments into your calender using one of that available calendar feed options.

  • Import assignments: Use to import previously created assignments from other school years and courses.

  • Export list:Use this to export your assignments list to a .csv file.

Reports

Assignment-specific reports are available under Reports. The reports available are determined by your administrator. Platform managers can give specific roles access to reports.

You can display the Calendar view by Month, Week, Day, or Today, as well as determine if assignments are included for your selected timeframe based on their Due date, Assigned date, or Active status. If you select Active, assignments display beginning on the Assigned date up through the Due date.

Select Filter to include only specific class sections in the calendar.

Icons in the upper right are available for exporting calendar feeds, printing, and running assignment reports.

  1. In list view, select + Add > Assignment. In calendar view, select +Assignment or select a day on the calendar.

  2. A new window appears for you to define the assignment details, including the Title and Assignment type.

  3. Under Submission method, faculty can determine if students can submit in-system files online for the assignment, submit the assignment on paper, or if they'd like to use an LTI to allow students to submit files.

  4. Under Assignment Instances, faculty can also create multiple instances of the assignment to use throughout the course of a term.

  5. Publishing options can be set as well. When an assignment is set to publish, the assignment will be available to the students in the selected course on the selected date and time.

  6. Select Save when finished.

    For more details on adding assignments, see Assignments

In list view, select the context menu next to the assignment, then select Edit.

In calendar view, select the assignment tile (not the assignment name) to open the editing view.

Warning: If you publish an Assignment with online submissions and then unpublish it, if it is republished, any submitted online submissions will no longer appear.

In both list and calendar view, select an assignment name to open the Assignment Details page where you can enter grades and feedback, mark gradebook indicators, view Discussions, annotate file submissions, and more. For more information on evaluating various types of assignments, see Assignment Details

Faculty can delete assignments even if grades have been recorded. Deleting an assignment removes any student submissions, files, Google Drive links, submitted text, grades, comments, and evaluations associated with the assignment. If an assignment is included in gradebook calculations, the calculations are rerun upon deleting the assignment.

  1. From the list view of the Assignment Center or Assignments tab on a class page, select the context menu next to the assignment, then select Delete.

  2. Select the course section(s) you want to delete the assignment from.

  3. Select Yes, delete for the selected sections to complete the deletion.

You can also delete an assignment from the gradebook by selecting the down arrow in the assignment column, then selecting Delete.