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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:
Add Honor Code Certification to Assignments
Sometimes, you want your students to certify that they have completed an assignment on their own or that they have followed your school's honor code. You can add a question to your assignment that asks your students to certify that they have complied with an honor code or that they did not receive help with their assignment.
Can't Open Class or Submit Assignments
You can't open your class or submit assignments. Other problems might also be related to this issue.
Create a New Assignment
Create your own assignments in WebAssign using textbook or custom questions.
Numerical Tolerance for Assignments
Numerical tolerance determines how close your students' answers must be to the answer key to be counted as correct. Overriding numerical tolerance is not recommended.
Work on a Group Assignment
Some of your assignments might display the group assignment icon to indicate that you will complete this assignment in collaboration with other students in your group.
Questions or Assignments Not Shown in Class Insights
Some assignments or assignment questions might not be shown in Class Insights.
Work on a Timed Assignment
Some of your assignments might display the timed assignment icon to indicate that once you start the assignment, you will have only a limited amount of time to complete it.
Grant Extra Time for Timed Assignments
You can grant students extra time for a timed assignment after their allotted time has expired.
Add Question Pools to Assignments
You can add a question pool to your assignment.
Edit Scores for Assignments Added to GradeBook
You can edit scores that you added for assignments your students completed outside of WebAssign.
Questions or Assignments Not Shown in Class Insights
Some assignments or assignment questions might not be shown in Class Insights.
Add Assignments to LMS
Create links from your LMS to content in WebAssign.
Share Assignments With Other Instructors
You can change sharing permissions for your assignments to control whether or not other instructors can schedule your assignments to their classes, or to collaborate with specific instructors when creating assignments.
Schedule a Timed Assignment
Give your students a specific amount of time to complete an assignment. Timed assignments are recommended for quizzes and tests.
Schedule an Assignment from Other Pages
You can schedule assignments from the Assignment Editor and from several pages listing assignments, including My Assignments , Assignment Search Results , and Recently Modified .
Assignment Templates
Assignment templates are sets of assignment settings that help you create assignments quickly. WebAssign provides default assignment templates, or you can customize and save your own assignment templates.
Create Assignment Templates
You can create new assignment templates to specify the assignment settings that you use for specific kinds of assignments. For example, you can create an assignment template with all of your settings for pre-lab assignments.
Open an Assignment
You can open an assignment to view it or work on assignment questions from either your Home page or My Assignments page for a class.
Add Mastery Sets to Assignments
Create and add a mastery set to your assignment.
Work on an Assignment with LockDown Browser
Some of your assignments might display the LockDown Browser icon to indicate that you must install and use WebAssign LockDown Browser to complete the assignment.
Course Pack Assignments
Most textbooks include ready-to-use Course Pack assignments created specifically for the textbook by subject matter experts. You can use them as they are or edit them to meet your needs.
In-Lab Assignments
While your students are in the lab, they will need to create a lab report as a group that records their data and shows the results of some analyses.
Assignment Restrictions
You can add security and time restrictions to an assignment, require students to pass one or more prerequisite assignments before starting work on an assignment, or schedule an assignment to be completed as group work.
Delete an Assignment
Trash an assignment if you do not want it to be shown in your assignment lists or available for scheduling or editing. Assignments cannot be permanently deleted.
Add Course Pack Assignments
Select individual assignments from your Course Pack to assign in your course. By default, Course Pack assignments are scheduled to be available on the first day of class and due on the last day of class.
Edit Assignment Templates
You can change any of your assignment templates in WebAssign. If you change an assignment template that is already used in one or more assignments, you can select which assignments should be updated to use the new settings.
Schedule a Respondus Monitor Restricted Assignment
Require Respondus Monitor for high-stakes assignments. Respondus Monitor records students as they take the assignment and flags recordings that might contain suspicious activity.
Weight Individual Assignments in Your Gradebook
After you set up your GradeBook and schedule assignments, you can adjust how individual assignments are weighted in the category average calculations.
Pre-Lab Assignments
Before beginning an experiment, your students should know lab safety procedures and be familiar with the equipment and materials they will be using. You might also want to ensure that your students have read information in the textbook beforehand, so they can gain the most benefit from their time in the lab. Assigning a pre-lab quiz covering such information helps motivate your students to be prepared before they enter the lab.
Copy an Assignment
Copy and edit your own assignments, Course Pack assignments that you added, or assignments that have been shared with you.
Change Question Order on Assignments
In the right panel of the Question Browser , each question and question pool is preceded by a sequence number. You can edit the sequence numbers to rearrange the order of the questions and pools.
Edit an Assignment
Edit assignments that you created or assignments that have been shared with you.
Significant Figure Checking for Assignments
Numerical questions displaying this icon WebAssign will check your answer for the correct number of significant figures require your students to answer with the correct value specified to the correct number of significant digits. If needed, you can turn off significant figure checking, change the tolerance at the last significant digit, or give partial credit if the student's answer is given with too many significant digits.
Preview Available Course Pack Assignments for Your Course
You can preview any available Course Pack assignments for your class before deciding to use them.
Include or Exclude Assignments in the GradeBook Based on Due Date
You can change GradeBook settings to include or exclude assignments based on the due date.
Excuse Students from Assignments
You can excuse a student from an assignment. When you do so, they receive no points for the assignment. The lack of points does not factor into their class grade or the GradeBook in any way. It is as if the student was never scheduled to take that assignment.
Schedule an Assignment Based on Class Schedule
You can schedule assignments to be due a specified amount of time before or after one of the class meetings for a week — for example, to make an in-class assignment due 10 minutes before the end of Wednesday's class.
Video Tutorial: Create an Assignment
In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create an assignment in WebAssign using questions from a textbook.
Video Tutorial: Schedule an Assignment
In this video tutorial, you will learn how to schedule assignments to your classes in WebAssign.
Schedule an Assignment Based on the Day of the Week
You can schedule assignments to be due at a specific date and time by selecting the day of the week in which the assignment will be due.