When instructors add a Grade to the assignment, they can alter it's its gradebook settings too.

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.

• Not in Gradebook means this assessment does not count towards the final course grade and will not appear in the Grades tab, but can still have a score applied to it

• 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 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 in Brightspace

• 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.

    • Create group in the Groups and Sections tool in Course Information.

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• • • For more information about Groups see this article: Groups

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• Add or Associate associate an existing Assignment 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

  • Submission types allowed are:

    File submission

    -

    :Students

    must

    submit a file attachment

    , PDFs, Word,

    such as a PDF or Word document

  • Text submission

    -

    :Students submit

    in text responses,

    a text response through the HTML editor or attach a video via the insert stuff

    option.

    button

  • On paper submission

    - Student submits

    :Students submit a hardcopy of their work in person. No submission

    on line. Grades distributed online.

    online but grades can still be distributed through the Assignments tool

  • Observed in person

    - Student presents

    : Students present work in person. No submission

    on line. Grades Distributed online.

    online but grades can still be distributed through the Assignments tool

• Determine the max Files Allowed Per Submission

  • Unlimited - : students can resubmit unlimited times until the end date.submit multiple attachments per submission

  • One file means the : students can only submit once before the end date.one attachment per submission

• Outline the Allowable File Extensions

  • Students must upload specific file attachment.

    Options

    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 attempts

  • All Submissions submissions are kept - Student can submit multiple files and Instructor can review all attempts in students submission file.Only one Submission allowed - Student : 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 attachmenttime

  • Only the most recent submission is kept - Student can submit multiple attachments, Instructor can only review the latest submission attempt: 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

• Attach existing Rubrics or create new Rubrics

  Select

  Rubrics: select Add Rubric to attach

  exiting

  an existing rubric or to create a new rubric

  Attach existing or create new Learning Objectives

  • Select 'Learn more about Rubrics in this article: Rubrics

• Learning Objectives: select Manage Learning Objectives

  '

  to attach existing learning

  objective

  objectives to the assessment

• Enable or Disable Annotation Tools

  This

  : this feature allows Instructors to provide in-

  context feedback.

• See Annotation Tools for more information

• Enable or Disable Anonymous Marking

• Enable and manage Turnitin Integration

  Select

  line feedback, we recommend enabling this feature for a more efficient and effective grading process.

  • Learn more about annotating in Brightspace in this article: Assignment Annotation Tools

• 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

• Turnitin Integration: select Manage Turnitin to outline Turnitin similarity checking

  rules.

  settings, ensure you read through ALL settings as some of the defaults have changed with this new integration