Use Homework/Test Manager

Depending on your course, use the Create Assignment menu to:

• Create new assignment — Add a homework, quiz, or test.
• Create an adaptive diagnostic — If available in your course, add an adaptive diagnostic to determine students' proficiency in selected topics.
• Create an office grader assignment — If available in your course, add auto-graded office assignments.
• Create an office simulation assignment — If available in your course, add office simulations to mimic real life experiences for students.
• Create a Freehand Grader assignment — If available in your course, create an assignment, upload it as a PDF, identify questions by "dropping a pin," and assign point values. Students upload PDFs of their work that you grade online. Currently available in most courses.
• Add Offline Item — Assign offline work, such as class participation or special projects.
• Create Writing Assignment — If available in your course, create an assignment using Writing Solutions.
• Create a MediaShare assignment — If available in your course, add assignments that allow students to interact with media items, for example, by taking video quizzes, commenting on media content, and uploading and sharing their own media content.
• Create a GeoGebra assignment — If available in your course, add assignments with interactive questions for geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics, and calculus.
• Import/Copy Assignments from another course or a previous edition of your textbook.
• Copy and Assign Sample Assignments — Assign multiple sample assignments and optionally set dates automatically. This option does not display when your course has no sample assignments.
• Create Custom Question — Open the Custom Question Manager, where you can create your own questions to add to assignments in the student player.

Create a new test — Add up to 15 tests to your program. Each test has a weight of 10 points, but you can change the test weight in your gradebook.

Create adaptive test — Create adaptive tests to help you evaluate students' skill levels and identify the best placement for each student.

Import/Copy Tests from another program — Import tests from a program that uses the same testbank as your program. You can also import and convert tests from a program that uses a similar testbank, for example a program using a previous edition of the testbank or a related testbank with the same coverage.

Copy and Assign Practice Tests — Copy and assign one or more practice tests. When you copy a single test, you can modify the test when you copy it. When you assign a practice test, you can make the test unavailable to students for practice.

Create Custom Question — Use the Custom Question Builder (CQB) to edit publisher questions or create your own questions.

Copy a test in your program — In the Actions menu, select Copy. You can copy a test that you or another instructor created for your program. If you copy a test with a question that is automatically scored as correct or removed from the test, you can choose whether to include the question in the copied test.

See Place students for details on using test results to evaluate readiness and assign courses.

• Assignment Tags — Create, add, and apply tags to your assignments.
• Change Assignment/Test Settings — Change assignment names and manage import and partial credit options for multiple assignments at one time.
• Change Categories — Change and add assignment categories and adjust category weights.
• Change Settings for Multiple Assignments — Apply settings to multiple assignments at one time.
• Delete Assignments/Tests — Remove multiple assignments.
• Reorder Assignments/Tests — Change the order of multiple assignments in the Assignment Manager and in student assignment lists.
• Set Prerequisites — Assign prerequisite assignments.
• Manage Custom Questions — Open the Custom Question Builder, where you can create your own questions to add to assignments in the student player.
• Respondus Monitor Proctoring Dashboard — Review student work on tests and quizzes with automated proctoring. This application is not available in all courses.

• Assign/Unassign — Choose whether the assignment is available to students.

  Students don't see unassigned assignments, but any results are preserved.

  You cannot change the assignment status of offline items or Learning Catalytics assignments.

• Edit — Change assignment settings, such as the name, content, and personalization options.
• Copy — Copy the assignment. Use the wizard to configure your copy of the assignment and save it. If you copy a test or quiz with a question automatically scored as correct or removed, you can include the question in the copied assignment. For the new assignment creation experience, configure your assignment on the My Selections page.
• Delete — Remove the assignment when it does not have results. Choose Unassign to hide the assignment and retain the results.
• Settings for Class — Change the settings for the assignment, such as due date, prerequisites, etc.
• Settings per Student — Change assignment settings for individual students. (This option is not available in coordinator courses.)
• Remove Questions or Replace questions — Remove or replace questions after students have worked on the assignment. Students get full credit for the removed or replaced question.

  These options does not display if no student has worked on the assignment. Choose Edit to remove or replace questions from an assignment with no results.

• Edit Study Plan — Change the coverage and mastery requirements for the companion Study Plan required as a prerequisite for a test or quiz.
• Run experiment — In an economics course, set up an experiment, run it, and view its results.
• Additional Settings — Specify parameters for interactive media and simulations (for example, Mini Sims) or questions with additional settings.
• Preview — Open the student view of the assignment in the player.

  To preview, add, remove, or edit questions in the assignment before students have worked on it, choose Edit, open step 2 of the Create/Edit Assignment wizard, and select the question IDs to preview and edit the questions.

• List Questions — See the question numbers, objectives, coverage, and number of points for the questions in the assignment.
• Change scores — Change the scores on offline assignments.
• Edit Item Info — Edit offline assignments.
• Print — Print the assignment. For example, print a test for students to take offline.