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Add Big Ideas Math Assignments to a Schoology Course

Big Ideas Math integration will allow you to make assignments directly from Schoology providing the ability to report scores back to your Grade Book.

Quick tutorial
  1. Navigate to the Add Materials section of the Schoology course. Using the External Tool, click Big Ideas Math to open the Big Ideas Math application. Accessing the External Tool through any other method may cause it to not function correctly.
  2. Select Assignments or DAP from the Big Ideas Math External tool Resources.
  3. Once the assignment section is open you can filter the content by Type, Program, Book, Chapter or Lesson. Click the check box for the name of the assignment you wish to assign to your class. Click the Assign button at the top of the screen.
  4. By default the name of the assignment will appear as listed in Big Ideas Math.
    • You can change the Assignment Title.
    • Select the individual students or All Students you wish the assignment to go to.
    • You can also modify date and time the assessment is available for the users to complete.
    Additional settings that can be modified:
    • Submissions options
    • Tools
    • Question options
    • Message to the user

    Once complete click the Assign button.

  5. Click Yes to publish the assessment to Schoology and you will now see it listed in there, but additional steps are needed before it can be used.
  6. Navigate to the Gear icon and click Edit to open the External Tool editor for that assignment you've just created.
  7. Select a Category for the Assignment. If a category is not added the item will not be scored with Schoology.
    Edit External Tool menu with default text in URL and Custom Parameters
    1. Ensure Enable Grading is checked.
    2. Do not modify the URL or Custom Parameters. These should be populated with text similar to the above screenshot.
    3. Do not copy and place this URL in any other location besides where we place it by default as it may produce errors when users attempt to click it. If other classes or students need access to it, they will be selected during the assignment creation within Big Ideas Math.
    4. Click Save Changes.
Students can now click that assignment name from within Schoology.