Oncourse Assignments: Overview

Note: This information applies to the original Assignments tool in Oncourse, which is no longer available to add to sites; however, you can continue to use it in sites that had it before June 3, 2011. For new sites, use Assignments 2.

What it does

For courses, the Assignments tool allows instructors to create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments. Assignments are private; student submissions are not visible to other users of the site.

Key concepts

Multiple grading options: You can choose letter grades, points or percent, pass/fail, checkmarks, or ungraded assignments.

Multiple submissions: You can choose to allow students to submit an assignment multiple times.

Returning an assignment: Assignments can be returned, with or without grades, for resubmission.

Offline review: Instructors can download all submissions for an assignment to their computer at once.

Grade access: When instructors release grades for an assignment, students can access instructor comments and their grades.

Student view: Clicking Student View allows you as an instructor or site leader to view assignments as they would appear to your students or project participants. To learn more about using student view, see Seeing how assignments look to participants.

Honor pledge: This option requires students to check a box affirming that they have neither given nor received aid on an assignment before they can submit it.

Provide scheduled or immediate feedback: Instructors can set a model answer or all-purpose item to provide immediate feedback to an assignment submission, or to provide feedback at a scheduled date and time.

Private notes: Instructors can add private notes (i.e., notes students cannot access) to an assignment.

Things to consider

• The quota for a site is 1 GB, and the limit for individual file uploads is 200 MB unless you use WebDAV. To request a larger quota for your site, see What are the default disk quotas for UITS accounts, and how do I request an increase?

• The Assignments tool can post grades to the Gradebook. For more on the relationship between the Assignments and Gradebook tools, see Linking an assignment to the Gradebook

Help documentation

For help documentation about the Assignments tool, see Assignments.

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