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Create a collaboration assignment

A collaboration assignment is similar to a wiki in that multiple students work on a single document as a group. You determine the number of groups (or teams) and which students belong to each group. All group members have the opportunity to work on the assignment, one at a time. (The MyLab locks the assignment when a student is working on it.)

Note: When a student completes his or her work on the assignment, that same student or another one can still reopen the assignment. Each time a student opens a "finished" collaboration assignment, the student needs to resubmit the assignment to you as finished. You may want to advise your students that each group should reach a group decision when the assignment is finished, and all group members then need to flag the assignment as finished.

You cannot open a collaboration assignment in the student view because you are not a member of a group. To see the student side, refer to the .pdf file Collaboration Assignments: A Student Perspective.

To create a collaboration assignment:

Do one of the following to display the Assignment Builder:
- Click Create Assignment under Manage Assignments on the Home page.
- Click the Assignments tab. Then click Create Assignment.
Select Collaboration and click the Continue button.
The Assignment Builder now displays the Step 2: Set Titles and Dates page.
Proceed through the Assignment Builder, completing the entries for each step and then clicking the Continue button.
For details on a step's entries, click one of the following links:
Step 2: Set titles and dates
Step 3: Create groups
Step 3: Add/Edit groups
When you complete the Step 3 entries, the MyLab creates the assignment and displays the Confirmation page, which shows the assignment and group details. You can edit the assignment now by clicking an Edit button or later from the Assignments page.
Do one of the following:
- Click the View All Assignments button to go to the assignment list on the Assignments page.
- Click the Create New Assignment button to add another assignment.