Select content for an assignment (assign items)

New Tutorials, Activities, EOCs, and Reading Questions are marked as for 12 months after they are added to the Item Library. You might want to evaluate these items for possible inclusion in your course.

Sort by Item Type to see all the items with the NEW flag at the top of each group of items.

You can select content immediately after you create an assignment on the Start page, or later by opening and editing the assignment.

1. With the assignment open, click  Select Content.

2. Filter the list of available items by selecting from the filter menus and check boxes.

   If you plan to add an Adaptive Follow-Up for this assignment, keep in mind that some items do not provide data for assigning Follow-Up items.

3. [Optional] Sort the list by clicking any column header.

   • If you are creating a pooled assignment, in which each student is given only a subset of the total pool of items you select here, you might want to sort to find items of similar time and difficulty levels.

     

   • Icons in the Item Type column provide information such as whether the item is mobile-ready or contains randomizable variables or an  essay or other free-form text response.

     If you assign an item that requires a lengthy essay answer:

     Advise students to compose in a word processor that allows them to save frequently. If they lose their Internet connection as they are writing an essay in Mastering, their work is not saved.

4. To assign one or more items now: Click the Assign check box in the row for the item or the row for the grouping. You can click and or the grouping name to expand and collapse groupings. You can also select the check box in the heading row to select all items in the filtered list.

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   To preview items before assigning them:

   1. Click an item title to open the item in its own window.
   2. [Optional] Work through the item as a student might, or select another option from the Manage this Item menu, such as to view the solution or restart your work.
   3. [Optional] Click Learning Outcomes (if present) to see the publisher-provided outcomes associated with this item.
   4. [Optional] Click Next Item and Previous Item to continue to preview and assign additional items from your filtered list.

   5. Click Assign Item at the bottom of the preview window.

      The item is immediately added to the current assignment. (You don't have to save.)

      To unassign any item while in the process of reviewing and assigning items: Click Unassign Item. The item is immediately removed from the current assignment. (You don't have to save.)
      

   6. Click Close in the upper right when you're done.

      Any items you assign are automatically saved to the assignment. This is true even if you navigate away from this page.

      The Assign check box displays the status of assignable items on the Select Content page. You can continue to assign or unassign items from here by clicking this check box.

5. To select more items from a differently filtered list, repeat steps 2–4.

6. Click Save at the bottom of the page, or click another numbered page to make other changes to the assignment.

   
   

Important: Be very careful in using either of the options described below. If the assignment is currently available to students, any student work on the item is lost. Clicking the check box again to include the item does not restore the lost student work.

• From the Select Content page: Click a checked Assign box to clear the check mark.
• From the item review window: If you have clicked an item title to review the item, click Unassign Item at the bottom of the window.

You can also remove items from the Organize Content page.