SMG Tools
Assignments
The Assignments tool in SMGtools is a full featured tool enabling instructors to not only distribute assignments electronically
but to accept electronic submissions, make revisions and send comments back to the student, accept resubmissions, and assign
grades online as well.
Adding Assignments
To create a new assignment, click the Add button then provide the necessary information for the assignment:
- Title (required)
- Open Date (required) – the date when students will be able to see and access the assignment.
- Due Date (required)
- Accept Until (required) – by setting this date after the Due Date you allow students to submit late assignments.
- Student Submissions (required) – “Inline” means the student must type the answer into the website
directly. “Attachments” means the student can attach the answer in a file. You can accept one or the other or
both.
- Grade Scale / Points (required)
- Assignment Instructions
- Add due date to Schedule
- Announce the open date – posts an announcement to the site when the assignment opens
- Add honor pledge – requires students to acknowledge that they have done their own work (a checkbox appears when
they submit their assignment)
- Add to Gradebook (adds the assignment as a line item to the Gradebook tool. NOTE that grading is done for each individual
assignment within the Assignments tool and not within the Gradebook tool)
Click the Add Attachments button to upload any files necessary for the assignment.
You can choose to preview the assignment if desired and from there you can choose to save the assignment as a draft, otherwise
click the Post button when done preparing the assignment.
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Viewing and Downloading Submissions
To view student submissions, go to the top level of the Assignments section by clicking the reset arrow next to the
Assignments header. Then click the hyperlinked numbers that are divided by a slash (/) under the In/New column
(e.g.,
4/4). The first number represents how many students have
submitted an assignment and the second number represents how many student submission you have not yet viewed.
After you click the link you will see a list of all the students in your class. You can view individual student submissions by
clicking on the students name in this list or you can download all student submissions by clicking the Download All button at the
top of the Assignment section. This will generate a ZIP file containing all of your students inline submissions as well as their
attached files.
TIP: Be sure to have students include their full name as part of the filename for any attachments they will be
submitting so that you can associate the attachment to the proper student.
Replying to Submissions (Comments and Grading)
When you are viewing student submissions individually, you can also respond to that student’s submitted assignment by
adding comments within their inline submission (use double curvy brackets for emphasis) and/or using the separate instructor
comments area. There are also options at the bottom for you to grade the assignment, allow for resubmissions and provide
attachments of your own as part of the response.
The Student View button lets you see how the assignment/instructions appear to students and even allows you to run through
submitting the assignment as a student.
The Grade Report button shows submissions and grades for each student. Clicking the Download Spreadsheet button puts this
information into an Excel file which you can save to your computer.
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