An assignment page is an excellent tool for learner engagement and evaluation in instructor-led courses.
Use Case Information
Assignment pages provide the option for a learner to submit a typed response, upload a file for instructor grading, or have a discussion with other learners. The instructor can grade the assignment and have a private threaded discussion with the learner in order to provide assignment feedback.
Learner View: Assignment page with no due date, video recording submissions enabled, and resources added
How to Create an Assignment Page
- From your homepage, select Courses > All Courses.
- Click the Content Title for to the course you want to alter.
- Within the Course Outline, go to the lesson where you'd like to add an assignment page.
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Click the plus sign in your course outline > hover over the Add Page icon and click.
- Choose the assignment page type.
- Add a page title.
- Click Save.
- Enter the assignment description and due date, if applicable. The assignment description field is a WYSIWYG, so you have the ability to format text or add images to this field, for example.
- Upload any applicable resource files by clicking the plus sign under the Assignment Resources header and uploading your files.
- Next, select and save your Assignment Options, which are located under assignment info. The following are the available options:
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External Activity:
External Activity is behind a feature flag.
When enabled, learners will be directed to an external URL to complete an activity outside of the system. This will require the third party system to return the learner with a grade and/or status of completion.
Reach out to Thought Industries Tech Success & Support for assistance to enable this feature in your instance. -
Allow learners to record a video for this assignment: Toggle Yes if you'd like to allow learners to record a video and submit.
Video Recording is behind a feature flag.
Reach out to Thought Industries Tech Success & Support for assistance to enable this feature in your instance.
- Prevent Course Progress: Choose whether this assignment will require grading by an instructor to be considered complete and before a learner can proceed within the course. Toggle Yes if you'd like require an instructor to mark the assignment complete.
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Enable Discussion Assignment: Toggle Yes so the assignment page will have a place for learners to submit a comment in response to your prompt on a discussion board, which turns this assignment page into a graded discussion. Each learner's comments and replies will be available in the Grading interface. For more details, see the Creating a Discussion Assignment Page article.
Admin View: Assignment Options with graded discussions enabled and without Video Recording or External Activity enabled on the instance
Admin View: Assignment Options with video recording enabled and external activity available to enable
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External Activity:
- Select and save any applicable Advanced Settings:
- Unlocking for editing by children?: This allows any page that is unlocked to be edited by a Client Admin in Panorama. The Client Admin will be able to make changes to the unlocked page in a course in their Panorama only (other Panoramas will not see these changes).
- Add an Audio Narration File: Add an mp3 file here if you would like learners to have the option of playing an audio file on a given page.
- # of seconds required for completion: This settings requires learners to be on this page for the number of seconds you require in order to mark the page as complete. Times is entered in seconds only (e.g. enter 180 seconds to represent three minutes).
- Click Save.
Notes, Tips, and Considerations
- A text block can be added above and/or below the Assignment Description by selecting the Add Text Block link.
- The maximum file size for student uploads is 350MB.