Create assignments

Updated 28 Feb 2024

Create homework, tests, or quizzes using the assignment creation wizard. To create other types of assignments, see Assignments done outside of the player.

  1. Open the Assignment Manager:
  2. Select the type of assignment you want to create.
  3. On step 1, the Start tab, of the assignment wizard, enter a gradebook category and an assignment name.
  4. If your institution uses a unit-based curriculum, choose the unit.
  5. If your MyLab Gradebook is synchronized with your Blackboard, Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Moodle, Sakai, or Schoology gradebook, choose whether to Send grades for this assignment to the (LMS) gradebook. (This option isn't applicable when you sync overall scores to your LMS gradebook.)

Select Personalization options:

  • Enable or disable Skill Builder for the assignment. This option is selected by default if Skill Builder is enabled in the course settings.
  • If you enable Skill Builder for the assignment, select one of the following settings:
    • Optional: Student may leave the Skill Builder practice at anytime.
      This option is selected by default, and allows students to close Skill Builder and return to the homework assignment.
    • Required: Student must complete the Skill Builder practice before returning to their homework.
      This option allows instructors to require students to complete Skill Builder recommendations when they answer a question incorrectly. Skill Builder automatically opens and the student must complete the practice before they can return to the homework assignment.
  • Enable or disable Personalized Homework for each student based on their performance on tests or quizzes selected from the dropdown list. See Create personalized homework.

    personalization options

Use the Gradebook Category list to change a test to a quiz or vice versa.

Select Assign a companion Study Plan as a prerequisite for this quiz to automatically generate and assign prerequisite Study Plan work that students must practice before taking the test/quiz. Step 4 is added to the wizard so you can customize the Study Plan coverage and mastery requirements.

AI Instructor Tools lets you have an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot session to create new assignments. Use the chatbot to find recommended items for your homework, tests, or quizzes.

Select AI Instructor Tools (Beta) to open AI Instructor Tools.

These videos show how to create assignments from the classic Assignment Manager:

Watch: Create a homework assignment

Watch: Create a quiz or test

Select Next to add questions on step 2.

 

See also: GeoGebra assignments | Freehand Grader assignments | Dynamic Study Modules | MediaShare assignments | PAL assignments | Writing assignments