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The document provides instructions for creating assignments in Sakai. It discusses adding the Assignments tool to a course, setting required fields like title, due date and grade scale. It recommends including instructions and adding the assignment to the gradebook. Optional settings allow adding the due date to the calendar, using Turnitin, and allowing resubmissions. The instructions aim to help instructors successfully add and display new assignments for students in Sakai.
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- 1. Creating Assignments in Sakai By Becky Roehrs sakaihelp@durhamtech.edu
- 2. Overview • • • • • • Why add an assignment to Sakai? Add the Assignments Tool to your course Add the Required settings Add the Recommended settings Be aware of optional Settings Add your assignment and view it 2
- 3. Why add an assignment to Sakai? • Use the Plagiarism tool • Provide online assignment feedback • Record assignment grades 3
- 4. Add the Assignments Tool • In your Sakai course – Click on Site Info – Click on Edit Tools – Click in the checkbox to the left of Assignments – Click Continue twice – Click Finish 4
- 5. Start Adding an Assignment • On the main menu, click on Assignment • At the top, in the middle area, click on the Add button 5
- 6. Required Assignment settings (1) • Complete the first four required items: – Assignment Title – Open, Due, and Accept Until Dates 6
- 7. Required Assignment Settings (2) • Complete the final two required items: – Student submissions – Grade scale 7
- 8. Recommended Assignment Settings • We recommend the following: Add Instructions – Add Assignment to Gradebook – Add an attachment with your grading criteria 8
- 9. Optional Assignment Settings • Optionally, you can add: – Due date to the Calendar and an Announcement – An honor pledge and/or Use Turnitin – Allow resubmission attempt (s) and/or resubmission due date 9
- 10. Add your Assignment • At the bottom of your settings, click on the Post button 10
- 11. Display New Assignment • After you click post, you’re returned to the Assignment list area 11
- 12. Summary • Discussed why you would add an assignment to Sakai • Added the Assignments Tool to your course • Added the Required settings • Added the Recommended settings • Discussed optional Settings • Added your assignment and viewed it 12
- 13. Need help? Contact us: • By email: sakaihelp@durhamtech.edu • By phone: – 919-999-9999 • In person: – Tech Center, Room 999 • Check out our Instructor Assignments wiki area 13
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- You can assign essays or reports, and have your students submit the assignment using the plagiarism checking tool, TurnitinYou’’ll get a plagarism report and optionally, you can allow your students to receive the report as wellYou can provide feedback, using the plagiarism tool or the Sakai assignments toolWhenever you grade a Sakai Assignment, you can add comments in a text editor and or attach grading criteria files with extensive feedback. I use both! You can hand out research assignments in your face-to-face or hybrid courses, as well as online classes and after getting the papers back, you can record the grades in SakaiAll of your students can check their assignment grades any time they logon
- We’ll add a new tool, just like you added tools in your Intro to Sakai workshop.Other than the Home tool, all of the tools are in alphabetical order, so Assignments is at the topNow you’ll see the new tool located on the left, in your main menu
- Right now, you’re viewing the Assignment list area, where later, you can see all of your created assignments
- What is the difference between the Open, Due and Accept Until dates:The Open date is the date and time you want your students to see and submit the assignmentThe Due Date is the date that the students will see in the Gradebook. If your due date/time and accept until date/time are the same, this will also be the final date/time students can submit assignments.Accept Until Date: No assignments can be submitted after the accept until due date/time. If the due date/time is different, in the Assignments grading area, the instructor will see in red, “Submitted Late”
- You can decide how students will be able to submit assignments:For Turnitin Assignments, you must pick “Single Uploaded File” Only, as only one paper can be uploaded for an assignment to TurnitinOtherwise, we recommend that you allow students to submit both text and file attachments, give students the most flexibilityIf you’re just recording grades of an assignment handed out in class, but want students to see your feedback online, too, you can choose non-electronic For grading scale, usually you’ll choose points and fill in the number of points in the text box below grading scale, since you want to record grades in the Gradebook
- You can also add non-graded or practice assignments, to give your students an opportunity to submit a draft of an essayWe don’t recommend getting notified by email each time your students submit the assignment or each time you release the grades to your students.I usually attach a grading criteria, so students know how they’ll be evaluated
- I usually add the assignment due date to the calendar, since students love thisI don’t add the announcement, since I usually create my assignments in advance, and don’t want my students to think the assignment is already available to themI also add the honor pledge. For my orientation assignment, I allow students to resubmit the assignment as many times as they like, until the accept until due date/time
- You should see your Assignment title, status, open and due date Plus you’ll see the points you assigned to the lesson, and if any new assignments have been submitted since you last checked, plus you’ll see a number of total assignments submitted
- We discussed a few reasons why you would use the assignment tool, added the tool to your course, and successfully added a new assignment to your course.
- Please ask us if you have any questions?