How to Create an Assignment?

Assignments in Brightspace are typically used for student submissions of papers, presentations, essays, or other text or file submissions for evaluation.

Create an Assignment from Content 

    1. Inside your course, navigate to the Assignment tool on your navbar (Assessments > Assignments, or Course Admin > Assignments) 
    2. Click New Assignment
Image of new assignment

Create an Assignment from the Assignment Tool 

    1. Inside your course, navigate to Content on your navbar
    2. Click on the module on the left navigation pane where you want to add a new assignment
    3. Click on Upload/Create and
    4. Select New Assignment from the dropdown menu
image of creating an assignment from content
    1.   Enter a Title for the assignment.
    2.   If you want it connected to the gradebook, enter a point value and ensure it says “In Grade Book” 
    3.   Add a Due Date for the assignment (optional)  
    4.   Add Instructions for the assignment.
    5.   On the right, expand each accordion menu to add more settings: 

      Availability Dates and Conditions: add a Start and End Date or Release Conditions

      Submission and Completion: change the assignment type and details

      Evaluation & Feedback: attach a Rubric or enable Turnitin.

    6.   When finished with the settings, toggle the Hidden icon to make it visible to students.
    7.  Click Save and Close
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Assignment creation interface

 

Accordion Settings and Options

 

Availability Dates and Conditions

    1. Start Date: When you want it to become available to students
    2. End Date: When you want it to become unavailable to students
    3. Release Conditions: Settings to create special rules for when students can access or view the assignment
    4. Special Access: Allows you to set special dates for specific users

 

Submission & Completion

    1.  Assignment Type: Individual or Group assignment
    2. Submission Type: File Submission, Text Submission, On Paper, or Observed in Person (choose ‘file’ for students to upload a word document or ‘text’ for students to type in their submission without uploading a file)
    3. Files Allowed Per Submission: ‘Unlimited’ allows students to submit multiple files at once. ‘One File’ allows only one file to be uploaded at a time.
    4. Allowable File Extensions: Allows you to limit what type of files you want to accept
    5. Submissions: Allows you to determine how many times students can submit.
    6. Notification Email: Allows you to add your email address if you want to receive an email for every submission received.


Evaluation & Feedback

    1. Add Rubric: Add an existing Rubric or build and attach a rubric 
    2. Manage Turnitin: Enable Turnitin’s similarity report
Last updated byElissa Tobin on February 20, 2025
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