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How do students submit an assignment?

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Go to Assignments.

Assignments in site Tool Menu

Select the Assignments tool from the site Tool Menu.

Select the assignment title.

Select the title of an assignment to begin creating your submission.

The following information will be displayed for each assignment.

  1. Assignment Title is the name of the assignment
  2. Status refers to the your submission status regarding the assignment (i.e., Not Started, Assignment submission required, Returned, etc.)
  3. Open Date is when the assignment becomes available to students
  4. Due Date is the deadline to submit the assignment
  5. Last Modified refers to the account name of the instructor or site manager that last made a change to the assignment
  6. Modified Date refers to the date and time when the assignment was last changed
Lessons direct link to Assignment

If your instructor has included a link to the assignment in the Lessons tool, you can also access it from this location within the course content.

Agree to Honor Pledge.

Your instructor may configure an assignment to include an Honor Pledge where you must indicate your pledge by selecting the Agree button in order to proceed with submitting the assignment.

Enter and/or attach your assignment.

Depending on the assignment settings, you may be allowed to enter your submission inline (typing into the text editor) and/or via file attachment(s).

  1. Note the Instructions section of the page.
  2. If submitting inline, enter your submission text into the Assignment Text area using the Rich Text Editor.
  3. In the Attachments area, select Choose File to browse for and upload your document from your computer. (Alternately, you can also click or select files from 'Home' or site to select a file you have already uploaded.)
  4. Optionally select Preview to ensure that your submission appears correct before you submit it.
  5. Select the Proceed button.

Once you have attached a file, the name of the file, as well as the file size and upload timestamp will display under Attachments.

Tip: Select Remove to remove the attachment if you've selected the wrong file.

Review the submission to Submit.

  1. Review your submission information in the Submission and Attachments areas.
  2. Select Submit.

View the submission confirmation message.

Image of the confirmation message displayed after submitting an assignment.

Once you have submitted your assignment, you will receive a confirmation message on screen. In addition, if you have opted to receive email notifications, you will also receive an email confirmation of your submission.

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