Managing Course Activities – Activating Assignments

Once you’ve set up your course offerings, you can configure any assignments you’d like your students to upload during their placement.

1. Select Courses from your dashboard or left menu.
   
   
   
2. Select the course you’d like to manage.
   1. Use the search or filter options to quickly find what you’re looking for.
      
      
      
3. Expand the Learning Activities option on the left panel and select Setup.
   
   
   
4. Another pathway you can take is by going to Learning Activities from your dashboard or left menu.
   
   
   
5. Find and the course you’d like to manage and click Setup from the action column.
   
   
   
6. Click on the + icon for Forms/Evaluations.
   
   
   
7. A drawer will open showing the option to add an assignment along with all standard and custom-built forms. Click on the Arrow for Add Assignment.
8. Another drawer will open. You’ll set the following preferences. Click Save once done.
   1. Active: set this to active for your students to view and complete the assignment.
   2. Title: provide your assignment’s title.
   3. Instructions: provide any instructions for your students to follow.
   4. Is this assignment applicable for other course offerings in the program as well?: If this is an assignment you will use continuously, mark this as yes. Your assignment will be saved for you to easily activate in the future for other courses.
   5. Does this form contribute to the student’s final score?: If yes, you’ll provide a weightage.
   6. Do you want a score to be associated with this assignment?: If yes, you’ll provide an out of score along with a default score.
9. Both the publish and due date are based on anchors, meaning you won’t add an actual date, but rather the number of days before or after a placement start, mid, or end date.
   
   
   
10. Your assignment will now be activated!