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Create a skill-building assignment

A skill-building assignment assesses students' skills in specific topic areas, and you select the exercise sets that you want. (The exercise sets for skill-building assignments are unique and are available to students only through a skill-building assignment.)

As a student works through a typical skill-building exercise set, the MyLab displays feedback for each question as the student completes it. The feedback lets the student know whether his or her answer is correct or incorrect and which answer is the correct one. The MyLab then automatically scores the assignment and records the score in the gradebook's Student Results Summary.

Other skill-building questions require that students write a response that you need to manually grade for each student. After you score the written responses, the MyLab calculates the assignment score and records it in the gradebook. However, you can exclude exercises with written responses from the assignment. To do this, make sure not to select any exercises flagged with an asterisk (*).

To create a skill-building 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 Skill Building and click the Continue button.
The Assignment Builder displays the Step 2: Select Exercises 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: Select exercises
Step 3: Set titles and dates
Step 4: Set points possible
After you complete the Step 4 entries, the MyLab creates the assignment and displays the Confirmation page, which shows the assignment 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.