Instead of directly providing grades and feedback on each submission, you can instead create a rubric for use with assignments. You will be able to set criteria for the assignment and levels of achievement for each criterion.

1. From your course page, click on the Assignment () to go to its summary page.
2. Once on the summary page, go to the Administration block and click .
3. From the advanced grading page, click the  drop-down and set it to .
4. Once the grading method has been switched, click the button that says .
5. On the Define rubric page, enter a  for the rubric.
6. The rubric starts with one criterion and three levels. To add more, use the  button (on the right) or the  button (at the bottom).
7. Once you have enough criteria and levels, you can click any criterion to change its description. You can also click any level to change its description and point value. Be sure to leave the lowest level for each criterion at zero points or else grades will not calculate properly.
8. When done, click the  button at the bottom of the page.
9. To use the rubric, go to the assignment’s summary page and click  as usual.
10. In the  column for each submission, click the  icon to use the rubric to grade that submission.
11. Click the appropriate level for each criterion. You can use the text box on the right to provide specific feedback.
12. Click the  button at the bottom of the page when done or click the  button to proceed directly to the next student’s submission.

Once students have submitted their work to an Assignment activity, you will have the opportunity to view/download the submission and provide numerical and text feedback. Assignments must be graded from within the activity itself, and not through the gradebook. Grades entered in the activity will automatically be recorded and calculated in the gradebook.

1. From your course page, click on the Assignment () to go to its summary page.
2. From the summary page, you will be able to see how many students can submit to this assignment, how many have submitted work already, and how many of those submissions still need to be graded. Click the  link.
3. You will see a listing of all the students and their submissions. In the  column, you will see links to any files the students have submitted. Click the link to any file to download it.
4. In the  column, you will see empty blanks where you can enter grades for each student. If you’d like to provide textual feedback, you can do so in the empty spaces in the  column.
5. When you’re done, click the  button.

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The assignment activity allows you to collect and grade work from students online. Students can submit any file to an assignment (e.g. Word documents, spreadsheets, images, audio files, video files, etc.).

1. From your course’s main page, click the  button in the upper-right.
2. With editing turned on, click  in the section where you want to add the assignment.
3. From the menu that appears, click the  next to  and click the  button at the bottom of the menu.
4. Enter an  and a . The assignment name is how the assignment will be displayed on the course page, in the gradebook, etc. The description is what the students will see before they submit a paper, and is useful for providing prompts or instructions.
5. If you want to attach files directly to an assignment (e.g. reference materials, a writing prompt, a written rubric, example papers, etc.), you can drag and drop a file into the  area.
6. In the  section, you can specify dates for the assignment.
    lets you specify when the assignment will start taking student submissions.
    lets you specify the date past which submissions will be marked late.
    lets you specify the date past which submissions will no longer be accepted at all.
   Ensure that the  checkbox is checked for any date you want to use.
7. Click the  section to expand it. Set the  drop-down to the number of points you want this assignment to be worth and specify which  it will go in (if any).
8. Click the  button when done.

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