01. Create assignments

In Course Navigation, click the Assignments link.

If you just want to create an assignment placeholder with a title and a date, you can create an assignment shell in an assignment group.

Assignment groups [1] house the different types of assignments you may want to keep in your course, such as assignments, discussions, quizzes, surveys, etc. If you create assignment groups in your course, students can filter their assignments page by assignment type to view the same groups. Learn how to add an assignment group.

To create an assignment shell, locate an assignment group and click the Add Assignment button [2]. Assignment shells only include fields for the assignment type, name, due date (optional), and points. You can add assignment details at any time by editing the assignment.

If you want to create an assignment with all assignment details at the same time, click the Add Assignment button.

Assignment details include fields for the assignment type, name, description, points, assignment group (if desired), grade display, and submission type, and due dates. You can also specify if the assignment is a group assignment or requires peer reviews in the assignment details lesson.

When you add details to an assignment, you can also assign the assignment to all students,course sections,course groups, or individual students as part of the Canvas differentiated assignments feature.

Add details to the assignment.

In the Submission Type drop-down menu, select the Online option.

Select the online entry options you want to allow for the assignment. You can select up to four options:

Text Entry: Students can submit their assignment directly in the Rich Content Editor. DocViewer annotations are not available for text entry submissions. Additionally, text entry submissions cannot be re-uploaded to the Gradebook.

Website URLs : Students can submit a URL that fulfills the assignment. DocViewer annotations are not available for website URL submissions. Additionally, website URL submissions cannot be re-uploaded to the Gradebook.

File Uploads: Students can upload a file to fulfill the assignment. 

Assignment settings are persistent to always remember and display the settings created or edited in the previous assignment in the course. Based on prior assignments, one or more of these options may already be selected for you.

If you allow file uploads, you can choose to restrict submissions to specific file types. To enable this option, click the Restrict Upload File Types checkbox .

In the Allowed File Extensions field, enter a list of accepted extensions. All file types need to be separated by a comma. You can include spaces, caps, and periods in assignment file names.

Note:In the case of an odd or unusual file type, try adding it to your course to confirm the file is accepted before requesting students to submit the file type.

To save the assignment and publish it, click the Save & Publish button [1]. To save the assignment as a draft, click the Save button [2].

As part of an assignment submission, LearningX LMS lets you set up an assignment as a group assignment.

You can also choose to grade students individually in group assignments.

If you want to require students review each other's work, you can create a peer review assignment. When requiring peer reviews, you can select whether to manually assign peer reviews or automatically assign peer reviews.

If you want to set up an assignment with additional reviews, you may be able to enable Moderated Grading, Anonymous Grading, or both. 

Moderated grading allows multiple graders to evaluate a student's work and create provisional grades. 

Anonymous grading hides student names from graders when they view assignment submissions in SpeedGrader. These options can be used together or independently.