How do I hand out an assignment?

A new assignment is in the library, but students only see it once you hand it out to them. You hand out an assignment to a group, a workgroup or individual students, and you choose who reviews it.

Important

You can only hand out an active assignment.

Hand out an assignment

1. Go to the Assignments module. Click the blue arrow next to the assignment and choose Students.
2. Has the assignment been handed out before? Then choose + Add. If not, choose Group or Student straight away.
3. Choose the group or the students. You can only choose groups and students you are linked to as a teacher.
4. Choose the start date: the day the student can start the assignment. By default this is today.
5. Optionally choose a deadline. Turn on Allow submission after deadline if students may still submit after the deadline.
6. Choose the reviewers (see below).

Good to know

Handing out to a workgroup? Then use Submit as workgroup to decide whether students submit together or each on their own. Is the start date in the future? Then the student sees the assignment with the status not yet available and can only start on the start date.

Choose reviewers

Every hand-out has at least one reviewer. Reviewers get a notification when there is something to review.

• You can choose both teachers (T) and students (S) as reviewers. A student who is a reviewer gets the Review module for this.
• Reviewers are in a reviewer group. All reviewers in one group receive the assignment at the same time. On the side, you set how many of them need to review.
• Use Add new reviewer(s) group to create an extra group. Use the bin icon to delete a group and the slider icon to move it.

How reviewing itself works is explained in How do I review a submitted assignment?.

Settings for multiple reviewer groups

• Set reviewer order: if this is on, group 1 reviews first. Group 2 only gets its turn once group 1 is done. If it is off, everyone receives the assignment at the same time.
• Reviews visible to other reviewers: if this is on, reviewers can see each other's reviews. If it is off, they cannot.

Edit a hand-out

Click the blue square next to the hand-out and choose Edit. As long as no student has finished the assignment, you can change everything. After that, you can still change some things:

• Start date and deadline: can always be changed, including Allow submission after deadline. See How do I change an assignment deadline?.
• Reviewers: can be changed as long as some assignments are not fully finished. With multiple reviewer groups, you can keep adding to groups that are not done yet.
• Settings: can no longer be changed once students have submitted.

Share a link to the assignment

Do you want to put the assignment in another system, for example in your study guide? Then use the direct link.

1. Go to the Assignments module and open the assignment.
2. Choose Link at the top right. The link is now copied.

Only students who received the assignment can open it through the link. Other students get a message.

Withdraw an assignment you handed out

Did you hand out an assignment by mistake or to the wrong group? Then remove the connection with that group or student.

1. Go to the Assignments module. Click the blue square next to the assignment and choose Students.
2. Click the blue square next to the group or student and choose Delete.

• The assignment disappears for the students who received it through this connection.
• For students with the status Being Reviewed or Done, the assignment remains.
• Student results are not lost.

Important

Do you also want to remove the assignment for students who have already submitted or received a review? That is only possible by deleting the assignment permanently. This also deletes all results of that assignment. See How do I archive or delete an assignment?.

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