Setting tasks
How to set tasks for your students
Introduction
Once you have given your students access and they have signed themselves up, not only can they access the pages you allow them to see, but you can also set tasks.
When a student completes a task, the outcome is recorded in the teacher's mark book automatically.
This page shows you how to set up different types of task within the student access of the InThinking Chemistry website.
*Note: This help page is only for teachers using the student access who have already set up accounts for a group of their students. If you have not yet set up student accounts for your students follow the instructions in Creating student accounts.
Once you have set tasks you can use student access as a mark book and follow your students' online activity as they use the student site.
Step-by-step instructions to set up task
Step 1 Click 'Student access'
Click on student access on the home page as shown below (or go to the Student access tools on any page that is not teacher only or direct access to students - see Short cut to give students access to a page).
Step 2 Click 'My groups'
Click on 'My groups if you have arrived from the home page.
Step 3 Click the group you want to set the task for
Step 4 Open up the "Task manager"
'My group' opens up with 'Results manager' by default so you need to change it to 'Task manager'.
Step 5 Click on the green box '+ Add task'
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Step 6 Select the type of task and the website page to use
The page open on "In-page tasks" by default. For chemistry you will normally be using either 'In-page tasks' or 'qBank Quizzes' that you have put together yourself. If you want to set an in-page task scroll down to the relevant top heading, open up the associated pages and choose the page you wish to assign (in this case a multiple choice quiz for Topic 1 Nature of matter and chemical change). Note that most of the pages for setting tasks (i.e. the quizzes and short-answer questions etc.) will be found in 2014 DP Chemistry (Last exam Nov 2024).
Note that if you click on 'qBank Quizzes' then a list of all the quizzes available including any that you have already made and saved using qBank will pop up and you can choose which quiz you want as the assignment. By setting it as a quiz assignment the marks will automatically be transferred into your mark book.
Step 7 Set a deadline for the task and edit (if necessary)
After clicking on 'next' you are asked which students you wish to assign the task to. Once you have selected the students press next again and you will be asked to set a deadline for the task. If you wish you can also add some instructions. You can choose the results option and also set up exam mode and set the time for the exam (in this example 15 minutes) if you wish.
Step 8 Send instructions to the students
*Note that 'Send' means send to their individual InThinking student web page - it does not mean send to their e-mail address.
Step 9 The task now appears in the teacher's task list for this group
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Step 10 After they log in students will see the task on their student dashboard
Clicking on the task will take them directly to it.