Edit availability and due dates for assignments

• An Adaptive Follow-Up assignment appears on student calendars when the Parent assignment becomes available, but students can't access the Follow-Up until one of the following is true:

  • The student has completed the Parent assignment, including any practice or extra-credit items in the assignment.
  • The due date for the Parent assignment has passed.
  • The time limit for a timed Parent assignment has been met.
• An Adaptive Follow-Up is due a number of days (specified by you) after the Parent assignment is due. This is translated into an actual date that is displayed in the List View and on which the Follow-Up assignment is displayed in the Calendar View.

• An Adaptive Follow-Up is always available until the course end date, unless you change the course end date. To synchronize the Follow-Up availability with the course end again

  You can open and re-save the Follow-Up assignment without needing to make other changes. Simply click the menu, choose Edit Adaptive Follow-Up, and then click Save.

Dynamic Study Modules, if provided for your textbook, are always available to students. As soon as you set a due date for an assigned module, the assignment becomes visible on students' Course Home calendar and Assignments page. Scores are recorded only until the Due Date/Time passes, but the module remains available until the course end date.

Each view of the course's assignments provides different features with specific advantages.

	Assignments List View	Assignments Calendar View or Course Home calendar
Data shown	Columns display # (assignment number), Title, Category, Due Date/Time, and Availability From/Until	Pop-up window shows the same information, as well as whether the assignment is currently Available or Unavailable to students, based on the current date and time.
Past due	*PAST DUE* appears in the Due Date/Time column	Indicated by the background color of the assignment in the calendar: Not yet due or Past due Not yet due Adaptive Follow-Up Not yet due Dynamic Study Module
Sort order	Sort by #, Title, Category, and Due Date/Time. With rows sorted by #, change the order by dragging an assignment to a new position.	No sorting. On the Calendar View (not Course Home): Dated assignments are listed in chronological order. Undated assignments are listed after that in alphabetical order. Adaptive Follow-Up assignments are listed with the Parent assignment.
To assign dates	Sort by #, optionally drag assignments to the preferred instructional sequence, click Edit, enter dates, and then click Save. For Adaptive Follow-Ups, you can change the days after Parent, which will be expressed as an actual date when the Parent assignment has dates.	On the Calendar View (not Course Home): Display the month when an assignment should be due, drag an undated assignment to the due date in the calendar, and accept or edit the Due Time, From date (default = one week before the due date) and Until date (default = course end date). For Dynamic Study Modules, From and Until dates don't apply. If this is a Parent assignment (has an Adaptive Follow-Up added), you can also accept or edit the days after Parent to establish the due date for the Follow-Up.
To change dates	Click Edit, enter new dates/times, or days after Parent, and then click Save.	Drag a regular or Parent assignment to a different due date. You can't drag an Adaptive Follow-Up independently, but you can click it to open its Overview page, and then click Edit Adaptive Follow-Up to change its days after Parent. The From date moves automatically to maintain the same number of days before the due date. The Until date also moves automatically or, if set at the course end date, remains on that date. For Dynamic Study Modules, From and Until dates don't apply.

1. Click Instructor Tools > Assignments > List View to display the Assignments list.

2. [Optional] Sort the assignments by clicking any column header that has blue text.

   If you have added new assignments without dates, you can move the assignments into the desired instructional sequence by following these steps:

   1. Click the # column header to sort by assignment number and to make the assignments moveable.
   2. Locate any new, undated assignment(s) at the bottom of the list.

   3. Click anywhere you see your move pointer (often a 4-pointed arrow or a hand), and drag the assignment to a new position in the list. Image

      

3. At the upper right, click Edit.

   

4. Click any text box, and then supply the date and time you want to apply to the corresponding assignment, or the days after Parent for an Adaptive Follow-Up assignment.
5. When you have finished making changes, in the upper right click Save.

1. Click Instructor Tools > Assignments > Calendar View to display the Course Calendar with assignments listed to the left.

   Note: You can use the calendar on the Course Home to change, but not set, assignment dates. The Course Home lists only assignments with dates.

2. If necessary, advance the calendar to the month in which you want one or more assignments to be due.

3. Drag an undated assignment onto the calendar, to the date the assignment will be due.

   An undated assignment displays dashes instead of a date. When you point to any listed assignment, your pointer changes to a move icon, often a 4-pointed arrow. View an image

   

4. Accept or edit the time the assignment is due on the selected date, and the From and Until dates and times for availability to students to work and review the assignment.

   For Dynamic Study Modules, From and Until dates don't apply.

   If that assignment is a Parent assignment (with an Adaptive Follow-Up assignment), you can accept or edit days after Parent value, and the Adaptive Follow-Up will be automatically positioned on the corresponding due date. Images

   

   The default availability dates and times are:

   • From = One week before the due date and time.
   • Until = Last day of the term. Consider accepting this date so students can review the assignment later.
   • Adaptive Follow-Up Due __ days after parent = 2, unless you have changed the default value in the Adaptive category.

On either the Course Home > Calendar or the Assignments > Calendar View, drag a regular or Parent assignment from one due date to a different due date. The Available From date moves automatically to maintain the same number of days before the due date. The Available Until date also moves automatically or, if set to the last day of the term, remains on that date. The due date for an Adaptive Follow-Up also moves automatically, according to the days after the Parent setting.

On the Assignments > Calendar View only, you can change an assignment date by dragging a dated assignment from the list to a different date, as follows:

1. Click Instructor Tools > Assignments > Calendar View to display the Course Calendar with assignments listed to the left.
2. If necessary, advance the calendar to the month in which you want one or more assignments to be due.

3. Drag a dated regular or Parent assignment from the list to the calendar, onto the new date the assignment will be due.

   For example, if you copy a course with assignment dates from the previous term, you might want to drag an assignment date from February to October. View an image