Class work: assignments, quizzes and materials for live and on-campus classes

1Adding an item to a live Zoom class

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   Step 1: Open the class and its Curriculum & batches tab

   Menu → Teaching → Live Zoom classes, then the class.

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   Step 2: Go to the week

   Choose the batch along the top; its weeks are listed below Batch settings.

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   Step 3: Under Add, choose Assignment, Quiz or Resource

   The form opens with that week already chosen.

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   Step 4: Choose the Batch

   Every batch of this class (the default), or one batch only.

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   Step 5: Fill in the title and the rest

   See the table below for each kind.

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   Step 6: Choose Visible to students

   Yes, published or Not yet (draft).

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   Step 7: Choose the Add button at the bottom of the form

   It reads Add assignment, Add quiz or Add material (a resource). The item is saved at once. You do not need Save curriculum, and nothing goes to NSDP for review.

• The item appears in its week, under the Zoom classes, with Every batch or This batch only, the due date, and a Draft tag while students cannot see it.
• Because an item belongs to the class, a new batch already has every item that is set for every batch. Nothing needs copying.
• Edit changes an item; the bin icon removes it.
• A week that has an assignment, quiz or resource cannot be removed from the curriculum.

2The On-campus class work page

The separate page is in the menu only for instructors linked to a campus, under Student work → On-campus class work. On-campus classes have no Curriculum tab, so their class work is added here.

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   Step 1: Open On-campus class work and choose the Class

   Your on-campus classes are listed under On-campus classes.

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   Step 2: Choose what to add

   Assignment, Project, Quiz or Material.

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   Step 3: Choose the Week and the Batch, fill in the form and choose Add

   The form is the same as for a live Zoom class.

• A Project is an assignment shown as "Project". A Material is what the Curriculum tab calls a Resource.
• The Class list on this page also has your Live Zoom classes. What you add to one there is the same class work you see in its Curriculum tab.
• The page also has the recordings and make-up classes described further down.

3Marking what students hand in

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   Step 1: Choose "N handed in" on the item

   The button is on the item, in its week of the Curriculum tab or on the On-campus class work page. An amber count shows how many still wait for marks.

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   Step 2: Read the answer and open the files

   Late work is tagged Late.

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   Step 3: Enter the Marks and the Feedback for the student

   Marks cannot be more than the item's total marks. Leave the marks empty to mark it complete without a score.

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   Step 4: Choose Save marks

   The student sees the marks and your feedback in the classroom. Marked work is closed to the student.

• Return to the student sends the work back with your feedback. The student improves it and hands it in again; returned work does not count as done.
• Quizzes are marked automatically. Their list shows each student's best score, whether they passed and how many attempts they made.

4Class work and the batch certificate

Each assignment and quiz has a tick box, Needed for the certificate (on by default). When a batch has such items, a student is eligible for the batch certificate only when they have enough attendance and have done all of them: an assignment handed in (and not returned), a quiz passed. Resources (materials) never count. With no such items, the certificate depends on attendance alone, as before.

5Where students see it

• In the classroom, under Assignments & quizzes and Materials, week by week.
• In the curriculum on the class's page, listed with each week's classes.
• In their to-do list: the dashboard's To do, the Assignments & quizzes page and their notifications, with the due date.
• On their certificate cards: "N of M assignments and quizzes done".

6Recordings and make-up classes

A live Zoom class is recorded automatically and the recording is attached to the class by itself, so you normally add nothing. The On-campus class work page (/teacher/class-work) still lists, under the items, every class meeting of the batch you choose. There you can add a recording by hand and, when a class could not be held as planned, schedule a make-up class.

• Both work for on-campus classes. This is the way to give an on-campus class a recording or an online session: its own timetable entry never carries links.
• For a live Zoom class, a recording you add by hand is kept: the automatic Zoom recording never replaces it.
• Saving again replaces what was there. Remove takes it away.
• Mark attendance for a made-up class as you do for any class.
• The link of a make-up class is one you create in Zoom yourself; unlike the classes of the curriculum, it is not created for you.

7Answering class discussions

Each batch also has its own discussion in the classroom. Students → Course discussions → Live & campus classes (/teacher/global-comments?view=classes) lists the questions of the class you choose, with a count of the ones still waiting for an answer.

• Write under a question and choose Answer. The whole batch sees it, marked Instructor.
• A thread is Waiting for an answer while its last post is a student's. Tick Only waiting to see just those.
• Post to a batch starts a discussion yourself: choose the batch, write, and choose Post.
• The bin icon removes any post; removing a question removes its replies.
• Private questions come to your Student messages instead.

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