Student Access: Setting Assignments
Much of the content of this site can be connected directly assessable material.
There are some pages that have suggested assignments and embedded assignments, but any page can be turned into a reading assignment or require a written response by students with a few easy clicks.
In Student Access, you can set assignments for your students. When they complete an assignment, the results are automatically recorded in the teacher's mark book.
This page explains how to set three types of assignments: reading, writing, and quiz assignments.
This page is for teachers using student access who have already set up a group of students. To find out how to set up a student group, please read this page first: Student Access: Creating Groups
Types of assignments
- Reading assignments ask students to read a page of the website. Your mark book automatically ticks the assignment when they have done this.
- Writing assignments instruct students to write a comment after studying a page of resources. These comments are stored automatically in your mark book.
- Discussion Assignments ask students to participate in discussions around the
- Quiz assignments set a multiple-choice test for students. The marks are recorded in your mark book without any effort.
How to set an assignment
Setting an assignment is easy on Inthinking. You can choose whether you want to assign a reading task or a task for submission simply by going to the orange box right under your name in the top left corner of any page.
Choose the class to whom you want to assign this task. Then click on "set as task"
Once you've clicked the "Set as Task" button, a screen will appear so that you can give the students further instructions and set the parameters of the task.
For example, you can:
- Set deadlines
- Set a 'timed' mode for completion.
- Give optional instructions.
- Report results in a variety of manners.
The assignment now appears in the teacher's assignment list for this group. Students will see the assignment on their student dashboard.
Once the assignments are completed they will appear in your results manager.
- Graded quizzes from the qbank will appear automatically scored.
- Reading assignments will automatically be checked when completed.
- Written tasks will appear gradable.
Click on the Student Access: Graded Assignments page for the next step.