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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.

The Assignments tool offers multiple grading options, including letter grades, points, checkmarks, pass/fail, or ungraded.

Assignments can also be returned, with or without grades, for re-submission. Instructors can download all submissions to an assignment to their computer at once. When instructors release grades for an assignment, students can access instructor comments and their grades.

Key concepts

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

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

Things to consider

• Instructors can return assignments and allow for re-submission. This feature can be used to evaluate drafts of final projects or papers, or to allow students to correct and re-submit an assignment.
   
• The Assignments tool can post grades to the Gradebook.