BigGyan Cloud eLearning - Online Assignments
prevents "The Dog ate my assignment" excuse
Despite being repeatedly told that 'honesty is
the best policy' throughout their childhood,
children figure out that sometimes the truth is
not going to keep them out of trouble.
Winslow Greenbay, a third-grader in 1893,
realized this pretty soon. One day he showed
up for school without his Latin assignment and
when the teacher asked for it, Winslow
blurted, "My dog ate it!". Thus was born the
legendary excuse - My dog ate my assignment.
It is often known as the worlds most famous
excuse. Listen to a poem here.
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The assignments are time-consuming for both students and teachers. Students need to research
on the topic from various sources, collect the raw data and then put all information into a final
deliverable. Teachers need to collect those assignments, then check those assignments, provide
feedback to the students and finally manually enter the marks in the grade register. And on the
top of it, there is always a chance of losing the assignment which leads to total wastage of
effort.
BigGyan solves the problem with a cool solution of online assignments. With online
assignments, students can prepare deliverable along with their research which minimizes their
effort. They can do it whenever they have time, no matter where they are by accessing the
online assignments via a computer or a mobile phone. They need not fear of losing it, ever. The
assignments are always accessible to them 24X7 at all latitudes. This is especially useful
during exam times they can review their assignments.
The teachers will love this as it minimizes their admin related work. They get the students
assignment online in their BigGyan account. They can review the students assignment online,
and immediately enter the feedback and marks into the system. BigGyan automatically sends
the feedback to each student and includes the marks assigned into students’ online Gradebook.
The BigGyan online assignment is a pretty powerful tool. Teachers can decide how they want
to receive the assignment from students. They may ask students to type the assignment into
BigGyan or they may type into a word file (or multiple files) and upload the file to BigGyan.
Further they may create "iterative assignments" where the assignment submitted is graded by
the teacher, re-edited by the student, re-graded and so on using either the single file or the
online text.

BigGyan online assignments is a complete solution for your assignments needs. It also includes
an "offline activity assignment” feature (for assignments that don't have an online component)
which can be used to remind students of 'real-world' assignments they need to complete.
Teachers can again record grades in BigGyan for these offline activities.