Assignments | How to create an Assignment

Lecturers can use the Assignments tool to create and edit assignments. Students can use the Assignments tool to upload and submit assignments directly in the Brightspace Learning Environment, instead of emailing their work to lecturers. You can also use it for on paper submissions or in person assignments.

This article shows how to:

Once an Assignment has submissions, it is no longer possible to change the assignment type (individual or group). In this case, a notification will be present on the top of the Edit Assignment Homepage.

Creating an Assignment

Navigate to your course, in the green navigation bar,

1. Click on Assessment, a drop-down menu will appear
2. Click on Assignments

Click Assessment, then Assignment

On the Assignments homepage, under the Assignments heading,

3. Click on the blue button New Assignment

Assignments homepage - create New assignment

This will open the New Assignment's settings page.

Assignment's settings page

On the left side of the page, you will see the most common settings used in Assignments. On the right, you will see drop-down menus that will allow you to change more settings (links to Availability Dates & Conditions; Submission & Completion; Evaluation & Feedback).

Assignment homepage

Saving and making the assignment visible

The progress or the assignment is not automatically saved while being created

Once you are finished creating the assignment, you can decide to make the assignment visible or invisible for students.

Save and Close, Save, Cancel and Visibility
  1. Save and Close  - to save and close the current Assignment settings and return to the Assignments homepage
  2. Save - to save the current Assignment Settings
  3. Cancel - to not save a recently created assignment or to not save editing changes in an already existing assignment
  4. Visibility - to make the Assignment visible/invisible to students

 

Now you know how to create an Assignment in Brightspace!

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