With Assignments, you can check your students’ knowledge and level up their experience in LMS. It will help you to incorporate different types of tasks into your courses.
Adding an Assignment to Your Course
- Add a lesson in your desired course and choose the Assignment as a type of lesson.
2. Write a name for the assignment.
3. Enter the number of attempts students can take for this assignment. Or you can leave it empty so that students can take the assignment unlimited times to pass it.
4. Add your assignment content and format it up to your preferences. You can also add images and videos to the assignments.
5. Click the Save button to save all changes.
How Assignments will look on the student’s page
When they open their assignment, they need to scroll down to start the assignment:
After clicking on the Start Assignment button, they will see this:
In the open window, they can see the Requirements section and Box to type the text. Students can also attach files and record audio and videos. After submitting the assignment, they will see this:
Adding audio and video recordings to the assignments as a student
Your students can add audio and video recordings to their assignments. That is extremely helpful in many cases, these are three of them:
- If you have language classes, for example, Arabic, and you want your students to pronounce the texts
- If you prepare your students for exams that have Speaking sections, for example, IELTS, HSK, TOEFL, TOPIK, etc, and want to have a real speaking mock exam.
- If you have a career coaching course and want your students to pass a real job interview. You can check your student’s body language, their interaction and more.
Your students can record an audio for the assignment. For that, they need to click on the Record audio button:
That is how an audio will look after stopping recording:
Your students can record a video for the assignment. For that, they need to click on the Record video button:
That is how a video will look after stopping recording:
After recording audio and videos, students can submit their assignments for review.
Managing Assignments as an Admin
Assignments can be managed in the Assignments and Student Assignment sections of the plugin.
In the Assignments section, you can see all the assignments created on your platform. There will be assignments from different courses.
This is a dashboard of all assignments in all courses throughout your LMS.
In the Assignments dashboard, you can see:
- Assignment – The name of the assignment
- Course – The name of the course where the assignment was created.
- Total – The number of the students who clicked on Start Assignment button.
- Passed – The number of students who passed the assignment.
- Non passed – The number of students who failed the assignment.
- Pending – The number of student assignments that need your checking.
When you click on the More button, you will go to the Student Assignments section where you can review the assignments.
This is a dashboard of the assignments students took in a particular assignment in a particular course.
In the Student Assignments dashboard, you can see:
- Student name – The name of students who started or submitted the assignment.
- Course – The name of the course where the assignment was created.
- Date – The date when students started or submitted the assignment.
- Attempt – The number of attempts a student took for the assignment.
- Status – The status of the assignment.
When you click the Review button, you can check your student’s assignment.
Checking and leaving a comment on the assignment from the student as an admin
After clicking on the Review button, you will open the window to check your student’s assignment.
When you scroll down, you can leave your reviews and comments in the Text box, attach files, record audios and videos. Choose the status for the assignment: failed and passed and click the Publish button.
That is what your students will see:
