The assignment tool has a wide range of configuration options that make it a powerful tool for assessing students. It can be especially useful in large course sections where there are several options available to streamline working with a high number of submissions. (For a basic walkthrough of the assignment settings, please see Adding Assignments.)

Advanced Assignment Settings

The different areas of advanced settings available for grading assignments are described below with links out to articles specifically covering those topics:

• Allowing Group Submissions

  - Enables students to submit a single assignment per group and provide grades and feedback to the entire group as a whole

• Downloading all assignment file submissions at once

  - Download a zipped folder of all student file submissions for offline grading

• Uploading Multiple Feedback Files at once

  - After working offline and entering comments into student file submissions, you can upload them in one batch

• Using the Marking workflow to release grades to students at the same time

  - Grading high volume assignments can be managed by adding a workflow option allowing for review, tracking, and timed release of grades

• Using Marker allocation to divide grading work among your instructors and TAs

  - With the grading workflow enabled, you can assign subsets of submissions to TAs and other instructors in your course for grading

Grading Assignments

Providing students with grades and feedback using the assignment activity is covered in the following series of articles:

• Grading Student Assignments

• Downloading Assignment Submissions

• Controlling Release of Grades to Students using the Assignment activity

• Grading Assignments based on a Custom Rubric

  - Assignment grades can be given out by selecting specific levels on a series of criteria from a rubric designed by the instructor

• Grading Assignments based on a Custom marking guide

  - Similar to the rubric, assignment grades are given out by entering scores on pre-selected criteria with the added option of re-using commonly used comments

• Grading PDF Assignment Submissions

• Grading Forum Posts within the Assignment Activity

  - Enable students to pull all their posts/replies from a forum into the assignment as their submission

• Uploading Multiple Assignment Feedback Files at Once

• Splitting up Grading of Assignments in Large Sections

• Problems Grading Assignments