Due Dates and End Dates

A Due Date is the submission deadline of the assignment. Students can still submit after this date however submissions made after the due date will be marked as late, and late penalties might apply.

End Date is the final date and time that the assignment will allow new submissions. Once the end date of the assignment has passed, users can no longer submit to that assignment folder for credit. Learn more about the End date in Availability Dates and Conditions

Use the instruction field outline assignment purpose, methods and tasks, using the Brightspace HTML editor.

Add text, attach resources, (i.e. videos, audio, gifs and other media files).

Select the Insert Stuff icon or the link icon to reuse or upload new resources to the assignment.

See HTML Editor for more details.

Select Grade Out Of to assign a grade value and to review grading options.

Grading Options

• Edit or Link to Existingmeans this assessment counts towards the final grade and will appear in the Grades tab

  • Assign to grades category (optional)

• Not in Gradebook means the assessment does not count towards final course grade and will not appear in the Grades tab, but has an associated score

  • Likely use case: Study, practice, or for preliminary submissions.

• Reset to Ungraded reverts the assessment to an ungraded item

• Set Start Date & End Date

  • Start Date: Earliest students can see an assignment

  • End Date: Last day students can see an assignment

• Enable and add additional Release Conditions

  • Restricts access to assignment until X criterion is met (similar to a prerequisite)

  • More about Release Conditions can be found at this link: Release Conditions

• Add parameters for Special Access

  • Useful for all student accommodations, and releasing assignments only to a specific group of students

  • Select Manage Special Access to add accommodations

• Determine the Assignment Type

  • Individual Assignment: students submit on behalf of themselves

  • Group Assignment: students submit on behalf of a group

    • For more information about Groups see this article: Groups

• Add or associate an existing assignment Category

  • This is strictly an organizational feature to tailor the view of the assignment’s tool into categories it does not impact grading or the final grade

• Set the Submission Type

  • File submission:Students submit a file attachment such as a PDF or Word document

  • Text submission:Students submit a text response through the HTML editor or attach a video via the insert stuff button.

    • Students cannot upload and embed images alongside text (as with some other Brightspace tools).

    • This is a good option for facilitating video assignments. More information can be found in this student-facing guide for video assignments.

  • On paper submission:Students submit a hardcopy of their work in person. No submission online but grades can still be distributed through the Assignments tool

  • Observed in person: Students present work in person. No submission online but grades can still be distributed through the Assignments tool

• Determine the max Files Allowed Per Submission

  • Unlimited: students can submit multiple attachments per submission

  • One file: students can only submit one attachment per submission

• Outline the Allowable File Extensions

  • Students must upload specific file types, options include: PDF, Annotatable files (File types supported by annotation), Files that can be previewed without conversion (e.g., HTML, BMP), Images and Videos, Custom File Types, Compatible with Turnitin.

• Set the parameters for attempted Submissions

  • All submissions are kept: Students can resubmit an unlimited amount of times until the End Date and instructors can view all submissions

  • Only one submission allowed: Students can only submit one time

  • Only the most recent submission is kept: Students can resubmit an unlimited amount of times until the End Date and instructors can only view the most recent submission

• Add a Notification Email for completed submissions

• Rubrics: select Add Rubric to attach an existing rubric or to create a new rubric

  • Learn more about Rubrics

• Learning Objectives: select Manage Learning Objectives to attach existing learning objectives to the assessment

• Annotation Tools: this feature allows Instructors to provide in-line feedback, we recommend enabling this feature for a more efficient and effective grading process.

  • Learn more about annotating

• Anonymous Marking: this feature cannot be disabled once submissions have been made, after grading is complete and feedback is published, usernames are revealed to the instructor and the assignment is no longer anonymous

• Evaluators: This feature cannot be disabled once submissions have been made, instructors can set what evaluators are able to do when grading and providing feedback to submissions.

  • Learn more in our short Evaluators article

• Turnitin Integration: select Manage Turnitin to outline Turnitin similarity checking settings, ensure you read through ALL settings as some of the defaults have changed with this new integration

Assignments can be edited after being published. However, do this with caution, especially when Turnitin is enabled. Please contact edtech@brocku.ca for more info.