Assignments are a crucial element to your course where students can be assessed on their understanding and competency. This module will demonstrate the different options that you have with assignments, assignment grading, and in the next section, how to create assignments for your course.

The Assignments Page

The assignments page is accessed from the Assignments link on the course menu. This page displays a list of all the assignments within your course. From this page, you're able to search for assignments, add assignment groups, and add assignments. You can also set up weighted grades for different assignment groups.

Assignment Groups and Weighted Grades

Grade weights are configured after assignment groups. This is because the assignment groups are the basis for how weights will be assigned. For instance, if your course is designed to have Homework worth 10% of the final grade, and Presentations to be 20%, you would need to create a Homework assignment group and a Presentations assignment group for those weights to be assigned to.

Assignment Groups

By default, all assignments are added to a group called Assignments. You can add a new assignment group by clicking the + Group button in the upper right, and enter a name for the assignment group.

Add group button

Once an assignment group is added, it'll appear with its own assignment group header. By clicking the options icon (the gear) to the right of the header, you can:

Rename the assignment group
Customize grading rules, such as dropping a lowest score.
Specify to never drop certain assignments within an assignment group

Assignment Group Options

Weighted Grades

The percentage of the final grade that an assignment group is worth (if weights are set up) and the number of grading rules applied to an assignment group are displayed on the right of the assignment group header.

Assignment Rules

Once assignment groups are established, you can configure grade weights on the assignments page by clicking the options icon in the upper right corner, and selecting Weight final grade based on assignment groups.

Weighted final grades

Within the resulting window, you can enter the weight of a category in the % of total grade field. These weights should add up to 100%.

Assignment Management

Assignments can be rearranged by clicking and dragging the handles on the left side of the assignment. Individual assignment groups can also be collapsed by clicking the triangle next to the assignment group so that you can focus on a specific group at a time.

Assignment rearrangement and group collapsing

Each assignment can be moved, deleted, or shared to Commons with the options icon on the right of the individual assignment. Lastly, if an assignment is part of a module, which module it is a part of will display underneath the assignment along with the point value of that assignment.