Complete your assignments

Updated 12 Feb 2024

Learning activities, also called assignments, enable you and your instructor to evaluate your performance and mastery of course material. Activities can be homework assignments, practice tests, exams, quizzes, tests, or any other form of learning or assessment activity created in your course. Your course may also include assets such as study plans and discussion topics that you can use for learning and evaluation and which are covered in separate Help topics.

When you work with an activity, generally you have immediate results to gauge your performance and mastery of course content. If the activity includes a file upload requirement, or if it includes an essay question, then your instructor will evaluate those elements and provide your grade at a later date. You can view your activity grades from the Grades page.

  1. Locate and open the activity in one of the following ways:
    • Click Assignments > Course Calendar and then locate the activity due date. Click the due date to access the activity and then click the activity name or select Open from the context menu.
    • Use Course Materials > View All Course Materials and navigate to the appropriate folder or activity. Then click the activity name or select Open from the context menu.
    • Use Assignments > To Do or Assignments > Completed and click the name or select Open from the context menu.
    • Use Grades to locate items you have not submitted and select Open from the context menu.

      The activity opens in a new window. Depending on the activity design you may or may not see a message before the activity opens. If the instructor has set a time limit for the activity, the time remaining icon appears at the top right. Depending on the activity design, the activity may prevent you from continuing your work when time expires.

      Some activities in your course can be set to practice mode. When you open an activity set to practice mode, a message displays at the top of the activity window to indicate it is only for practice. Activities set to practice mode are different than Practice Lessons, which are specific content types that provide complete, interactive practice lessons.

      Do not press the Esc key while your activity or test is opening as the application may still count this as an attempt.

  2. After the activity opens, answer the activity questions. You can jump to different questions by clicking the page number navigation. For information about the type of questions you may encounter and what you need to do to answer them, see Answer questions.
  3. If enabled for your activity, use the Save for Later button to save your work and continue the activity at a later time. The activity settings determine whether or not you will be able to review or change previously saved answers. When you save an activity for later it is not counted as an attempt. That is, if you are allowed three attempts on the activity, and you start the activity for the first time and click Save for Later, when you open the saved activity you will still be on the first attempt.
  4. When you have answered all of the questions in the activity, click Finish: Submit for Grading to submit your work for grading.
  5. At the confirmation prompt, click Finish.
  6. To view results, do one of the following:
    • View the activity page by page.
    • Click View Summary to view a one-page summary.
    • Click Return to Activity to close the summary.
    • Click Return to Course to exit the activity and view your course materials.

      For automatically graded activities, your score is a calculated percentage based on the number of questions in the activity and your correct or incorrect results for each of those questions, or the raw score of points earned by answering questions correctly.

Instructors can design activities that allow you to take the activity multiple times. If the activity only allows a single attempt, or when you reach the final number of attempts allowed, a message appears to let you know that after you complete the activity, your score will be recorded in the gradebook. If your activity allows multiple attempts, you may see the Try Again button after you complete an activity. Using Try Again will show your previously selected answers in your next attempt at the activity