Assignment Tab


There are two parts to this tab. The first is the Milestones section. Use this if you want to track students to see if they've done what they were supposed to do. It's passing a checkpoint. It doesn't guarantee that the students read anything on the page that has the milestone; it just means that they they've been here.

I'm working on a quiz, so I can set the drop-down box to "Manually Marked." the milestone will have been met when the test is graded, either by the computer (if it's a multiple-choice quiz) or by me (if it's an essay quiz). You can go into the Reports tab when you first enter the course and run a milestones report for this quiz.

The other option is "Item Completion." If this were a page instead of a quiz, maybe I want to know if the student came into the page. If s/he did, s/he completed the milestone. (Note: There are other ways to check progress in the Reports tab on the main menubar.)

Both options have Assign Date and Due Date settings, so it will measure a period of time when the student should have passed through.

The second part of this tab is tied to the Gradebook (or it can be). The default is None. With that setting, when the quiz is taken, nothing is reported to the Gradebook. You'll be able to see the grades. (See the Utilities submenu.) If that's the setting you choose, then you are done here and you can return to the Index page. If you want the quiz grade submitted to the Gradebook, then scroll down a bit.

You can create the Practice Quiz Assignment in the Gradebook (that's a whole other tutorial) or you can create it here. That's what I've done below.

Assignment: If you don't have something set in the gradebook, you can use the drop-down box to make a new assignment. All the other stuff appears. If you have already created the assignment in the Gradebook, use the drop-down box to locate that specific quiz and then you can click on Edit to make adjustments in the pop-up window. I'm creating the grade here.
Title: Give the quiz a title
Category: Create the category. It would be better if you knew what you were doing and had set up the gradebook first. It's OK. You don't have to set the category now. You can still have the grade set up and you can assign it to a category later.
Points possible: My little practice quiz has two questions. Maybe I want to make this quiz worth one point. The lowest value you can assign to a question is one point. You can't assign, for example, .5 to each question. It can only be whole numbers. Here's a way around that. My questions are set at one point each, but if I set the points possible to one point, the gradebook will automatically make the adjustment. I could also make the quiz worth 100 points, so even though I assigned only one point to each question, the questions are now worth 50 points each.
Calculation type: The choices are "Average score," if you allow the students to take the quiz multiple times; "Maximum score," if you allow the students to take the quiz multiple times and use the highest grade; "First submission," will record the quiz the first time it is submitted (if there is a computer glitch, you'll have to delete the zeros or manually enter the grade in the gradebook); "Last submission," is when you allow the students to practice for a while and they know that the last time they take the quiz, that's the score that will be in the gradebook; or "Manual," if you want to enter the grades yourself. Here's a scenario where you will want to enter grades manually.
Display format: "Course default," is whatever you've set for your Gradebook Preferences; "Percent (Letter Grade)" has a 78% (C) look to it; "Score (Percent)" which would look like 1 (100%) for my practice quiz because I got both right but the quiz is only worth 1 point; Score (Letter Grade) that would be 1 (A); "Score" = 1; "Percent" = 100%; "Letter Grade" = A. You'll set the percentages for the different letter grades in the Gradebook area.
Hide gradebook assignment from students: Check this box if you want to do this. Maybe you're doing daily quizzes that will be part of the unit grade. By themselves, they don't mean anything and just might be discouraging to the students if they realized they only had a few points before the big test.

Quirk Alert! I have a quiz set to send the grade to the gradebook when the quiz is graded. Let's call the quiz Quiz1. When the student views the grade, the label is Quiz1. I also have students in the course who need special accommodations, so that quiz is SDSQuiz1. I direct SDSQuiz1 to also put the grade in the gradebook when the quiz is graded. If an SDS (Student Disability Services) student is the last one in the whole class to take the quiz, the label for the first quiz as it appears in the gradebook is SDSQuiz1! It's annoying, but that's the way life is. You can change the label back to Quiz1 here (in the Gradebook Settings) or in Manage>Gradebook>Assignments>SDSQuiz1 edit. It doesn't matter; you just have to do it.

That's all there is to Settings. Save your work. Next is putting the questions into your quiz shell or you can go back to the Index page.


































Let's say you have a 10-question quiz worth a total of 10 points, which is one point per question. Nice guy that you are, you write 12 questions to give your students a fighting chance. You'll have to set your test to Manual grading, set the Display Format to Score, and set the test link to 12 points. (For the time being, this will mess up your Gradebook if there are 90 other points, because the unit is now 102 points instead of 100. Don't fret.)

When you view the grades, if someone got 12 out of 12, the score will be 12. If someone got 9 of 12, the score will be 9. If you change to test link back to 10 points, the person who got 12 points will now show 10; 9 would be 7.5. Heaven help you if the Display Format is set to percentage! Here's what you have to do to avoid the recalculation: With the test set to 12 points, you write down the scores for each student, change the test back to be worth 10 points, then enter the grades manually. Now you can have someone earning 12 points on a 10-point quiz. (You've just fixed your Gradebook back to 100 total points, assuming that there are 90 points elsewhere.)

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Next is putting the questions into your quiz shell or you can go back to the Index page.