The Assignment Editing Page

Here you can change the properties of an assignment and manage the files related to it.  Only staff members with Assignment privilege can access this page.

To Create a New Assignment: Click the Add New link on the Navigation Bar on the left side of the page.

To Edit an Existing Assignment: Select the assignment from the Edit menu in the Navigation bar, or click the edit link corresponding to the assignment you want.

Submitting Changes:  All changes to this assignment are finalized by clicking the Submit button at the bottom of the page.


General Properties

• Name: The name of this assignment, used to refer to it in the system
   
• Short Name:  Used to refer to this assignment in a compact way (i.e. at the top of the Students page)
   
• Status: Determines student's access to the assignment and grades.
   
• Maximum Score: The maximum score attainable for this assignment.  If you split the assignment into Problems later on, their score values must add up to this score.
   
• Weight: Used to compute this assignment's contribution to the sum of each student's Total Score  ((Student's Score / Maximum Score) * Weight)
   
• Due Date: The default time for submissions to become disabled.  Under Advanced Options », you can add a Grace Period, during which students can still submit files without penalty, and enable a Late Submission deadline.  Files submitted after the Due Date/Grace Period and before the Late Submission deadline will be flagged as late.  These deadlines only apply when the assignment is in the Open status.  If it is Closed or Graded, then submissions are disabled for all groups that have not been granted an explicit extension.
   
• Show Statistics: If enabled, students will be able to see the Highest, Mean, Median, and Standard Deviation of the scores for this assignment when it is in the Graded status.
   
• Show Solution: If enabled, students will be able to download solutions as soon as the assignment enters the Closed or Graded status.  Otherwise, students can only download solutions when the assignment is Graded, and they have received a grade.
   
• Regrades: You can allow students to request regrades online prior to a certain date.  A group's entry will be flagged when they have requested a regrade.
   
• Assigned Graders Only: You can enable this option to restrict grading on this assignment for Staff members who do not have full Admin privilege. They will only be able to view and set grades they've been assigned to on the Groups page.
   

About Assignment Description

This is a block of HTML-enabled text displayed at the top of the Assignment Page shown to students.  You can configure it on the Assignment Editing page by clicking the (show) link next to the Assignment Description heading.


Group Options

You can allow students to work in groups of any size.  To configure these options, click the (show) link next to the Group Options heading.

• Group Size: You can specify a range of acceptable group sizes, have students work alone, or choose to have staff members organize students into groups.
   
• Group Migration: You can choose to automatically group students the same way they're grouped in an earlier assignment.  This option is only available when first creating the assignment.

Required Submissions

Here you can define what files are required from students for this assignment.  The names you use here will determine the names of the files you receive when downloading students' submissions.

• Click (New Row) underneath the Required Submissions heading to start a new entry.
   
• File Name: This is the name of this submission, and students' files uploaded in this slot will be renamed to this.  This name should not have a file extension; the extension from the students' submission will automatically appended.
   
• File Types: You can choose any number of pre-defined types to accept in this submission slot.  If a student's submission does not match one of these types, it will not be accepted.
   
• Max Size: Files uploaded in this slot that are larger than this size will not be accepted.

Adding Files

You can upload files to be displayed on the student Assignment Page.  Click (New Row) underneath the Assignment Files heading to add a new file.   You can also provide a solution file in this section.


About Problems

You can break down the grading of an assignment into several Problems.  This gives students a more detailed view of their grade.  Add a new Problem by clicking the (New Row) link underneath the Problems heading.  Each has a name to identify the portion of the assignment they relate to and a maximum score.  The scores must sum to the assignment Maximum Score specified in the General section.


Scheduling

You can associate a schedule with an assignment. Click Enable Scheduling and you'll see some options: timeslot duration, timeslot group limit and schedule lock time.  Timeslots are the building blocks of a schedule: they specify a time and place and can accomodate a given number of groups (timeslot group limit).  You can choose to prevent students from changing their assigned timeslots after a certain time; this is the lock time.

The detailed schedule page is accessible from the Navbar under Assignments.  Here you can manage timeslots: create and destroy them and assign groups to them (via (show groups)). 
Here three timeslots assigned to the same staff member overlap in time.  This problem could be resolved by moving one or more of the offending slots, by replacing some of them with equivalent slots assigned to a different staff member, or by removing some of them and raising the maximum number of groups permitted in the same slot.

The Count field allows you to create a string of consecutive timeslots:

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