Do assignments

Updated 13 Dec 2022

When you do assignments online, your answers are automatically checked and the results are reported to you and to your instructor.

How you access assignments depends on your course:

  • In most cases you can go directly to assignments from your Course Home.
  • An Assignments link in your course menu opens the Homework and Test page, which lists all your assignments and your results.
  • If your course is in Blackboard, Brightspace, Canvas, Moodle, Sakai, or Schoology, you might have a direct link to your assignments from that system.
  1. Optionally use All Assignments and All Chapters to display only one kind of assignment (for example, homework) or only one chapter's assignments.
  2. Select the assignment name from the list to open it.

    If the assignment is not yet due, you can work on it. Otherwise, you can review the assignment after the due date.

    Under Attempts, you see how many times you can try the assignment. An infinity symbol () means you have an unlimited number of attempts.

  3. After you finish an assignment, select See score to see your grade.
    • An asterisk (*) means your instructor manually changed your score.
    • incomplete means you began a test or quiz but didn't submit it.
    • Dashes (--) mean your instructor hasn't graded the assignment. For example, when the assignment includes an essay question.
Icons indicate the type of assignment:
round blue icon Homework.
green diamond Test.
orange box icon Quiz.
orange triangle icon Another type of assignment.
Flag icon An assignment with a prerequisite
purple pushpin Do Study Plan work as a prerequisite for a test or quiz.

Every online course comes with the MyLab player, where you can answer questions. The MyLab player looks like this, depending on your course:

Example of the player in homework mode

See Use the MyLab player.

 

See also: Assignments worked outside the MyLab player | Do homework in the MyLab player | Take tests and quizzes in the MyLab player