How to add an assignment to a lesson depends on which course builder you are using. In the New Course Builder, assignments are added as content blocks within a lesson. In the Classic Course Builder, assignments are their own lesson type.
Assignments allow your students to submit homework that needs to be approved before they can complete your course. This works great if you have specific submission requirements for your course or want to assess assignments and provide individual student feedback.
In order for an assignment to count towards course completion, it must be approved by a Site Admin or Course Admin. You might consider also making it a Prerequisite Lesson, which means it must be completed and approved before a student can move on to the next chapter in your course!
For details on Managing Assignments, see Managing Assignments.
For more, see: Get Started with User Roles · Prerequisite Lessons
In the New Course Builder, assignments are added as content blocks within a lesson.
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From the content menu, select Assignment
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Click Build assignment
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Type in assignment instructions
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Optionally, turn the toggle on to allow learners to add a text response
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Optionally, check the box to allow to accept text response without a file
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Optionally, upload a downloadable template
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Select Save and Insert
The assignment block in the new course builder allows students to submit their assignment as a file, enter their submission via a text response (a link) or submit both a file and a text.
Select the assignment block settings (the gear icon) to configure the following:
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Auto-approve submissions: when checked, assignments are marked complete as soon as learners submit.
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Pending review message: customize the review message that appears when a learner submits their assignment. Not used when auto-approve is on.
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From the Admin Dashboard, go to Products
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Select Courses
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Hover over your desired course and select Edit
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Click + Add lesson
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Select Assignment
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Add an Assignment title for your lesson.
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Include a Content description, to give your students context around the lesson requirements.
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Optionally, upload a template file by using the Drag and Drop or Select Files option.
This can be any file type from a document template your students can fill out, to an example file!
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Fill out the maximum file size under Student submissions. Max file size per student submission upload is 100MB.
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Add a Confirmation message. This will appear when a student has successfully uploaded their assignment.
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Optionally, under Lesson Settings, select Auto-approve submissions if you want to allow student submissions to be automatically marked as Approved.
Note
If the Auto-approve setting is enabled, the submissions cannot be marked as rejected. The lesson will be marked as Approved right away.
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Click Save, and you are all set!
To take a look at the lesson, you can preview your course as a student!
For more, see: Previewing Your Course as a Student
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You can only upload a single example file per assignment and students can only submit 1 file in the classic course builder or submit 1 file and add a text response. If you have multiple files, you can always create a zip file and upload that.
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The maximum size limit for assignment templates is 500MB. However, the maximum file size for student assignment submissions is 100MB.
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We currently do not support .feature files however, students can zip the file, and then upload the .zip file in order to upload to an assignment lesson
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The Site Owner, Site Admin, and Course Admins can receive notifications for assignment submissions if turned on in your notification settings.
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Course Admins can manage assignments.
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At the moment, the assignment block in the new course builder does not allow you to auto-approve assignments or customize the confirmation message.
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Deleting an assignment lesson will also delete the assignments that have been submitted. If you are planning to delete an assignment lesson at any point, we suggest setting it to a draft lesson instead. This ensures previous student assignments are not lost and can still be accessed. Managing Assignments has recommendations on managing and making updates to existing Assignments.
For more, see: Automated Email Notifications · Creating Draft Content for Your Course
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