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The Assignments option is used to easily publish and evaluate assignments.
- Click Course Tools in the navbar of your course.
- Click Assignments. You will land on the Assignments homepage. Here, you can view all the assignments you have made for the specific course.
Assignments homepage
- The buttons at the top provide you with different actions:
- Click New Assignment to create a new assignment.
- Click Edit Categories to add, delete and sort categories for your assignments.
- Click More Actions for more options, such as a preview of the assignment. The other options will be discussed later on in this article.
- Use Bulk Edit to edit the name, category, availability, and deadline for multiple assignments at once. Select the concerned assignments and click Bulk Edit. Edit the settings to your preferences and click Save.
- In the table you can see a number of columns:
- Under Assignment you will see a list of all assignments per category.
- Under New submissions you can see if there are new submissions from your students you have not seen before.
- Under Completed you can see how many students handed in the assignment in total.
- Under Evaluated you can see the number of students whose assignment have been assessed.
- Under Feedback Published you can see the number of assignments for which you have published feedback/an evaluation.
- Next to the name of the assignment, you will see an drop-down icon and one or multiple other icons:
- Click the drop down icon next to the assignment to open the quick-menu. The available options will be discussed later on.
- Other icons will be visible depending on the choices you made during the process of creating the assignment. Hover your mouse over the symbols to see more information about them. For example, they indicate whether it concerns a group assignment, whether the assignment is visible for the students or which grade item is assigned.
- For each category, you have the option to delete it (trashcan icon) or edit it (pencil icon):
- When you delete a category, it will be deleted from your category list as well. The assignments in this category will automatically be moved to No Category.

We will now discuss the options within the drop down menu for each assignment further:
- Click View Submissions to view the submitted files of the assignment.
- Click Edit Assignment to edit the settings of the assignment.
- Click Make Visible to Users/Hide from users to make the assignment visible/invisible to students. Each assignment you create will automatically be hidden, unless you have this option turned off at bottom of the first page when creating an assignment.
- Click Manage Exemptions to exempt or unexempt students from an assignment. For exempted students, the assignment does not have to be completed.
- Click Delete Assignment to delete an assignment. You can restore assignments in the Event log under the button More Actions (see below).
- Click Copy Assignment to duplicate the assignment with its settings.
- Click Submission Log to see when a student has handed in his/her work.
If you duplicate an Assignment with a Grade Item attached, the Score Out Of number will be copied but the Grade Item is not copied, and there will be no Grade Item attached to the copied assignment.
Submission Log
Another option to navigate to the Submission Log:
From the Assignments homepage, click on the name of the assignment you would like to view. Click on More Actions - Submission Log in the task bar.
The Submission Log will keep track of each file in an assignment, and logs:
- which student it concerns (Submission);
- what are the events surrounding the assignment (Event);
- who submitted, restored or deleted the assignment (Modified by);
- when the assignment was submitted, restored or deleted (Date);
If desired, you can filter the results by clicking:
- Submitted: only show submitted files;
- Deleted: only show the deleted files;
- Restored: only show the restored files (first deleted and then restored);
- Started: show the start times of all uploads (not necessarily submitted by the student).
When a selection is made, you will see one of the above options in blue and underlined.
More Actions menu
Click More Actions to open the menu.
- Click Preview to see what is displayed to students when they open the page.
- Click Reorder to re-arrange the order of the assignments on this page.
- Click Event Log to view the event log. This will keep track off when you have:
- created an assignment (Created);
- deleted an assignment (Deleted);
- restored an assignment (Restored).
- Click Make Visible to Users to make the selected assignments visible to students.
- Click Hide from Users to hide the selected assignments from students.
- Click Delete to delete the selected assignments.
If you accidentally delete an assignment, you can restore it directly by clicking Restore.
It is possible to assess with multiple evaluators and publish an aggregated result. Read this article for more information about assessing with multiple evaluators, the allocation of publication permissions and matching students to evaluators.