Teaching Online at UTAS

What does it do?

The Assignments tool is used to facilitate electronic submission of individual or group assessment tasks. Assignment Submission Folders can be associated with Grade Items, Rubrics, and Competencies, which enable online marking, grading and feedback. Staff can also restrict access to Assignment Submission Folders by date and time, group membership or mode of study. Assignment Submission Folders can give specific students special access permissions like extended submission dates, to cater for those with special circumstances or Learning Access Plans. Staff can see students’ submission times, download all of the submissions to their computer at once, view submissions online and grade online using Rubrics and Grademark (when Turnitin has been enabled).

Useful terminology

• Folder: students submit their work for a particular assessment task to a particular folder (submission folder) in the Assignments tool.
• Category: you can group folders into categories. This feature is useful if you have to manage several folders.
• Turnitin: third party plagiarism detection that can be enabled for each folder.
• Grademark: if Turnitin is enabled, Grademark, a third party grading tool, can be used to electronically mark up feedback (in the form of comments) on a student’s submission.
• Individual Assignment Submission Folder: Each student submits work individually. The work is also marked individually.
• Group Assignment Submission Folder: Groups of students submit work (one or multiple members of the Group can submit to the same folder). Students receive the same grade and feedback. You can alter individual marks in the associated Grade Item (and add individualised comments there) if you need to.
• Grade Item: The grade (score) recorded for a student/group’s submission to an Assignment Submission Folder is recorded here after you publish marks and feedback.

What is Assignments best for?

• Collection of assignments, including Word and PDF documents, video files, audio files and presentations. ePortfolio items can also be submitted to an Assignment Submission Folder.
• Submission of a file (or collection of files) created by a group of students (Group Assignment Submission Folder).
• Plagarism detection (if Turnitin is enabled).
• Online grading and provision of feedback.

Tool capabilities

Assessable?
Turnitin?
Peer review?
Grademark?
Rubric?
ITR Supported?

Helpful resources and instructions

• Setting up an Assignment Submission Folder to collect student assignments
• Setting up a Group Submission Folder for submission of group work
• Providing extensions to students
• Getting distance students to submit presentations
• Student Resource: How to locate Grades and feedback associated with an Assignment submission