Create an Assignment

Cre­ate a new assign­ment for each activ­i­ty that requires stu­dents to sub­mit indi­vid­ual work, such as essays, projects, or files for grad­ing. Unlike dis­cus­sions, which are designed for inter­ac­tion and peer engage­ment, assign­ments act as drop box­es where stu­dents sub­mit their work pri­vate­ly.

When set­ting up an assign­ment, you can build it direct­ly in the course, link it to the Grade­book, and orga­nize it into the appro­pri­ate cat­e­go­ry. This keeps your course struc­tured and makes man­ag­ing sub­mis­sions and grades more effi­cient.

Setting Assignment Parameters

The assign­ment edit win­dow includes 3 wid­gets on the right side that can be col­lapsed and expand­ed; each wid­get con­tains set­tings that can be adjust­ed in order to tai­lor an assign­ment to your needs. See the infor­ma­tion in the tabs below to learn more about the set­tings found in each wid­get.

You can set date restric­tions for your assign­ments, as well as add release con­di­tions and spe­cial access for spe­cif­ic stu­dents when need­ed.

Start and End Dates: Start and end dates auto­mate when stu­dents can access an assign­ment, so you don’t have to man­u­al­ly tog­gle the visible/hidden icon. If you set a Start Date and time, stu­dents won’t be able to open the assign­ment until that date and time. If no Start Date is set, the assign­ment is avail­able as soon as it’s cre­at­ed and made vis­i­ble.

Due Dates: Due dates con­trol whether a stu­dent sub­mis­sion is flagged as over­due. It’s not required to have a due date on an assign­ment, it’s sim­ply a way to track late sub­mis­sions.

Release Con­di­tions:

Spe­cial Access: This tool allows you to accom­mo­date stu­dents who require access out­side of the assign­men­t’s set para­me­ters (e.g., ear­li­er or lat­er access, extend­ed due date, addi­tion­al attempts or time allot­ted). You can allow cer­tain stu­dents to have Spe­cial Access to an assign­ment or only stu­dents with Spe­cial Access to access the assign­ment. The first case is use­ful if you need to pro­vide accom­mo­da­tions, the sec­ond option is best used for reme­di­al assign­ments.

Sub­mis­sion & Com­ple­tion options let you con­trol how stu­dents sub­mit their work to an assign­ment.

There are four sub­mis­sion types avail­able.

  1. File sub­mis­sion: Stu­dents upload a file (e.g., PDF, Word Doc­u­ment, Images) to the assign­ment.
  2. File or text sub­mis­sion: Stu­dents upload a file OR enter text into the text sub­mis­sion field to sub­mit to the assign­ment.
  3. Text sub­mis­sion: Stu­dents enter text into a text field. This type is good for assign­ments that require stu­dents to sub­mit a link to a video or a web­site port­fo­lio or blog.
  4. On paper sub­mis­sion: Stu­dents don’t upload or enter any­thing to the assign­ment in Bright­space, but this type allows you to pro­vide stu­dents with a grade and feed­back.
  5. Observed in per­son: Again, stu­dents don’t upload or enter any­thing as a sub­mis­sion to the assign­ment, but you are able to pro­vide a grade and feed­back for things like pre­sen­ta­tions.
  • Tip: To ensure you are grad­ing the most recent work uploaded by a stu­dent, chose Only the most recent sub­mis­sion is kept.

Overview Submission to Grading

This video shows you how a stu­dent uploads their sub­mis­sion, how the instruc­tor grades and pro­vides feed­back and then how the stu­dent sees their grade and feed­back.

Cre­at­ing a Sim­ple or Basic Assign­mentAddi­tion­al Fea­tures and Func­tions of Assign­ments AreaFrom Sub­mis­sion to Grad­ing: From Stu­dent and Instruc­tor Views
Group Assign­ments: Cre­ate a Group and Attach to an Assign­mentPass Fail Assign­ments: How to Cre­ate Grade Items and Assign­ments 

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Creating a Simple or Basic Assignment

This video shows you how to cre­ate a simple/basic assign­ment from scratch, link to the grade­book and rearrange the assign­ment into the prop­er cat­e­go­ry.

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Additional Features and Functions of assignments area

This video takes a pre-cre­at­ed assign­ment and enhances it with oth­er fea­tures and func­tions and also shows you two ways to add it to a pre-cre­at­ed grade item (the fast way and the long way).

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From Submission to Grading: From Student and Instructor Views

This video has a pre-cre­at­ed assign­ment and it shows you how a stu­dent uploads their sub­mis­sion, how the instruc­tor grades and pro­vides feed­back and then how the stu­dent sees their grade and feed­back.

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Group Assignments: How to Create a Group and Attach to an Assignment

This video shares two ways to make a group assign­ment. 1. Cre­ate a group first and then cre­ate an assign­ment and select the group. 2. Cre­ate a group AND at the same time cre­ate an assign­ment to go with that group.

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Pass Fail Assignments: how to Create Grade Items and Assignments

This video shows you a bit more than just pass-fail assign­ments as it shows you how to cre­ate an asso­ci­at­ed grade item if you wish that assign­ment to be part of the final grade — as well as an assign­ment that is not attached to the final grade. Hand­out with sum­ma­ry info: PDF Ver­sion

Note: Not shown in video but you can also choose to view the weight a pass/fail item has out of the final grade in addi­tion to the Pass/Fail word. I chose not to — by over­rid­ing the stu­dent and man­age views with JUST the pass /fail words but you can check off weight if you wish too. 

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