Import assignments

Teachers can import Assignments, Assessments, and Graded discussions from their current courses, past courses, and, if allowed, from other faculty's courses. Teachers manage which other teachers can import their assignments in their Preferences.

Note: Importing creates a new instance of an assignment that is not linked to the original assignment. Changes made to the new or original instance of the assignment do not affect the other.

Teachers can give access to other teachers to import their assignments through their Preferences settings in the Assignment Center.

  1. In the Faculty persona, select My Day, then Assignment Center.

  2. Ensure list view of the Assignment Center is selected. You can switch between list list view icon and grid grid view icon views using the icons in the upper right.

  3. Select More and then Preferences.

  4. Under Assignment imports, choose from the following options:

    • Do not allow others to import your assignments

    • Allow all teachers to import your assignments

    • Allow selected teachers to import your assignments

      • Select the teachers that can import your assignments.

  1. Select Save.

To import assignments, from the list view of the Assignment Center, select More then Import assignments. This will open the Import wizard and teachers will need to take the following steps:

  1. On the Import these assignments step, use the available filters to search for the assignments. Filters include:

    • School year

    • Teacher

    • Section

    • Marking period

      Note: If your school does not use Gradebook, the Marking period filter will be blank and will not be needed to search for assignments.

  2. From the list, select the assignments to import and then select Next.

    Note: If you select an assessment created with the old assessment builder, you will receive a message explaining that importing the assessment will convert it to the new assessment experience. Any embedded media in questions, audio files, and the Allow Save for Later setting will not convert and must be manually updated in the new copy of the assessment. You will also need to publish the new copy of the assessment and set it to Ready for taking before students can begin the assessment. See Convert Assessments for more information.

  3. Under Import to these sections, use the available filters to search for the section(s) you would like to add these assignments to. Filters include:

    • School year

    • School level

    • Marking period

      Note: If you would like the assignment to be included in the gradebook, you will need to use the Marking period filter. If your school does not use Gradebook, the Marking period filter will be blank and will not be needed to search for sections.

  4. From the list, select the sections you would like to add the selected assignment(s) to and then select Next.

  5. Finally, on the Set dates and published status step, you will set Assigned date/time, Due date/time, and the Publish status for each assignment, or select multiple assignments and use Bulk adjust selected assignments to set these fields in bulk.

    Note: The Assigned and Due dates need to be within the selected Marking period. The begin and end dates for the selected Marking period display under Marking period.

  6. Select Save and close when finished.

Teachers at schools that do not use our Gradebook can also import assignments with the steps above. A teacher can tell if their school does not use Gradebook if they do not see the Gradebook tab in their courses. Teachers will see a couple differences when importing their assignments:

  • They will not see a Marking period filter.

  • The Assigned and Due dates for any imported assignments will need to fall within the begin and end dates for the selected school year.

    Note: For reference, the begin and end dates for the school year will be listed on the Set dates and publish statuses step under School year.

Teachers at schools using Competency based education can import Mastery-only and Hybrid assignments. They can import these assignments using the steps above but will should be aware of the following:

  • Skills attached to Mastery or Hybrid assignments will import to new course sections with the assignment as long as the new course is associated with those skills.

  • You will need to edit any assignments with missing or no skills to add skills as needed. If an imported assignment has missing skills, it will be listed on the Missing skills dialogue box once you finish your import. You can use Export list to export this information.

  • Hybrid assignments imported to courses that are Mastery-only will import as Mastery-only assignments.