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Schedule Assignments
To assign work to your students, schedule assignments to your classes on the Schedule page.
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Copy Assignments to Other Sections a Few at a Time
Some instructors prefer to copy a few assignments at a time from a previous or template section to the sections they are teaching for the current term.
Create Assignment Templates from Existing Assignments
Create a new assignment template from an existing assignment to reuse its settings for other assignments.
Apply Assignment Templates to Existing Assignments
You can apply an assignment template to multiple assignments without having to open each assignment individually. This lets you quickly update a group of assignments to use the same assignment settings, including category, submissions, randomization, and learning tools and feedback settings.
Assignments
Assignments are the work you do for your class in WebAssign, and might include homework assignments, labs, quizzes, or tests, depending on your instructor.
Assignments
In WebAssign, you create, update, and manage your assignments independent of a class context. Then, schedule your assignments to one or more course sections to assign work to your students.
Assignments List
The Assignments list on the Schedule page shows your assignments.
Reschedule Assignments
You can change dates for your scheduled assignments on the Reschedule Assignments page.
List Your Assignments
You can view a summary of your current assignments and due dates on your Home page for a class, or a detailed list of your current and past assignments on your My Assignments page.
Add Textbook Questions to Assignments
Add questions to your assignments from the textbooks you are using in your current classes.
Search for Questions to Add to Assignments
Use multiple criteria to search for questions to add to your assignments. You can add a mix of different types of questions to your assignment, like multiple-choice, physPad, and numerical. You can add questions that another instructor shared with you using a permission group. Or, you can add questions that use a specific term in the question or answer key.
Post-Lab Assignments
After the lab is finished, every student should complete a post-lab assignment that both reinforces the lessons learned in the lab and assesses students' understanding of the material individually. Post-lab assignments should not be available to students until after the lab period is over.
Reorder Assignments With the Same Due Date
When you have scheduled more than one assignment to a section with the exact same due date and time, you can change the order in which those assignments are listed.
Add Questions You Created to Assignments
Add questions you created in WebAssign to your assignments.
Include Files in Assignments
You can include videos and other instructional content in the assignment instructions to prepare students before they begin the assignment. This is useful for homework, in class, and practice assignments.
Rescore Assignments for Courses
If a problem with assignment scoring affects many students in one or more sections of your class, rescore the assignment for the entire class. For LMS-integrated courses, a rescore also syncs scores to your LMS. Rescoring is faster than a manual sync because it syncs only the rescored assignments.
Rescore Assignments for Affected Students
If a problem with assignment scoring affects only one or a few students, do not rescore the assignment for the entire class. Instead, rescore the assignment just for the affected students. For LMS-integrated courses, a rescore also syncs scores to your LMS. Rescoring is faster than a manual sync because it syncs only the rescored assignments.
Best Practices for Scheduling Assignments
These recommendations might help you when scheduling assignments for your classes.
Best Practices for Creating Assignments
These recommendations might help you when creating assignments for your classes.
Disable Automatic Extensions for Individual Assignments
If you have automatics extensions enabled for your class, you can disable them for individual assignments. This is useful for quizzes or other assessments.
Rescore Assignments
Your students' work on assignments is scored automatically when they submit it using the assignment's Scoring Answers setting. This behavior ensures that your students' assignments are scored correctly based on the assignment your student completed. However, you might need to occasionally rescore an assignment. When an assignment's Scoring Answers setting is set to Last , you can rescore the assignment to use the best answer for each question part instead of scoring using the last submission. When an assignment's Scoring Answers setting is set to any value other than Last , you can only rescore the assignment using your current setting for the assignment.
Relative Dates on the Reschedule Assignments Page
On the Reschedule Assignments page, changed due dates are rescheduled based on the day of the week, and other assignment date changes are made relative to the due date. These changes could have small impacts on how dates are recalculated if you copy rescheduled assignments from one section to another. Always review and update scheduling for assignments that have been copied from another section.
Add Questions from Public Collections to Assignments
Add questions to your assignments from the publicly available question collections. Question collections include questions contributed by other WebAssign instructors and are organized by subject classification.
Rescore Assignments That Have a Changed Question
If you need to change a question that you have already scheduled in an assignment — for example, to correct your answer or allow alternative correct responses — rescore assignments containing the question after you save it. For LMS-integrated courses, a rescore also syncs scores to your LMS. Rescoring is faster than a manual sync because it syncs only the rescored assignments.
Schedule Assignments for Multisection Courses
Generally, when you schedule assignments for multisection courses, you first schedule the assignments you want to a single section and then add new sections to your course. Each new section copies the original section.
Add Questions to Assignments Using Question IDs
Add questions to your assignments using the question ID (QID), if known. This lets you add questions that other instructors have shared with you by giving you the question ID.
Set Accommodations for Timed Assignments
Set per-student accommodations for timed assignments. This gives those students whose educational plans allow such accommodations extra time on all timed assignments in the class.
Add Questions from Question Resources to Assignments
Add questions to your assignments from the question resources you are using in your current classes. Question resources are authored collections of questions that are organized like a textbook and have been created with help from WebAssign.
Unschedule Assignments
You can remove an assignment from your class schedule if you no longer want it to be a part of your class.
Remove Questions or Question Pools from Assignments
Remove individual questions or question pools from your assignments.
Tutorial and Practice Assignments
Instead of simply giving homework that has only a vague pedagogical focus, one approach to helping your students learn is to break this nebulous category of assignments into two different types of assignments with different pedagogical functions: