You can organise your course assignments into categories, making it easier for students to navigate to the appropriate assignment. For example, you can create separate categories for group assignments, video assignments, or bonus assignments.
Tip: When setting up your course, you can first create the categories and later place the assignments in the categories.
- Navigate to Course Tools in the navbar of your course.
- Click Assignments.
- Click Edit Categories.
- To modify the name of a category, click the existing name and type in the amendment. Hit Enter (on your keyboard) or click outside of the current cell to save your changes.
- Under Sort Order you can change the order of how categories are presented to students on the Assignments homepage. Click on the number of a category to change the order.
- To delete a category, select the tickbox next to its name, and click the trash icon.
- Under In Use you can see which categories already contain assignments (indicated with a green tick)
- Click Add Category to create a new category.
If the category does not contain an assignment, then it will not be visible on the Assignments homepage.
After changing a category name or order, click somewhere on your screen. The change will then be saved automatically.
To create a new category, click on Add Category.
- Enter a name for your category.
- Click Create.
- The new category will then appear in the list.
- Click Close to return to the Assignments homepage.
Adding assignments to categories
To add assignments into the created categories:
- Navigate to Course Tools in the navbar of your course.
- Click Assignments.
1. Select the assignments you want to have in a category, using the tick boxes.
2. Click Bulk Edit.
3. Click the drop-down menu No Category.
4. Select the category you want the assignment to be in.
5. Click Save.
The assignments have now been added to the respective categories.
