Assignments

Assignments are a content type that require members to take action: either by submitting work or confirming they completed a task.

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Overview

Unlike lessons, assignments prompt members to do something: upload a file, write a response, paste a link, or check a confirmation box. They are added to your curriculum inside a module and support robust configuration options, including review workflows, due dates, and submission visibility controls. Assignments are well-suited for projects, reflections, policy acknowledgments, and any task where completion should be verified.

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Create an Assignment

Add an assignment directly from your curriculum.

1. Navigate to your Program’s Curriculum page.
2. Inside a module, click Add and select Assignment.
3. Enter a Title for the assignment.
4. Optionally, add Featured Media to the top of the assignment. Just like a lesson, this acts as the assignment’s cover and can be an image, video, audio, an embed (YouTube, Loom, Google Doc, etc.), or custom HTML/iFrame code.
5. Configure the assignment from the Set Up Assignment modal. Open it using the gear (settings) icon on the submission box at the bottom of the assignment. 
   • Assignment Due Date: Set a due date so members can see the deadline on the assignment. If reminder emails are enabled in your Program’s settings, members automatically receive a reminder email 24 hours before the due date.
   • Completion Method: Choose how members complete the assignment.
     • Members are required to submit their work, such as text, link, or file. You can enable or disable each format independently and mark each as optional or mandatory.
     • Or members can click a button to mark the assignment as completed.
   • Submission Visibility: Choose who can see members’ submissions.
   • Click Done.
6. Use the rich text editor to write the assignment instructions, context, or expectations for members.
7. Optionally, add attachments to provide reference materials.
8. Click Save.

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Assignment Content Settings

Assignments have more configuration options than other content types. Access other content settings from the Admin button > Settings.

• Comments: Toggle on or off to control whether members can discuss the assignment with each other.
• Prerequisites: Use prerequisites to require members to complete specific content before they can access this assignment. Prerequisites are set at the instance level, meaning the same assignment can have different prerequisites across different Programs.
• Confirmation Checkboxes: Require members to check a box before marking the assignment complete. This is useful for acknowledging a policy or confirming they completed an offline task. This works the same way as the confirmation checkbox on lessons.
• Require Pass to Progress: This toggle controls whether submissions are auto-completed or held for review.
• Off: When a member submits, the assignment is automatically marked complete. No review is needed.
• On: Submissions enter a pending review state. An instructor must manually pass or fail each submission before it counts as complete.

POV: Turn Require Pass to Progress on any time a human needs to evaluate work before it counts toward completion: portfolio reviews, written reflections, project submissions. Leave it off for low-stakes tasks where submitting is enough.

• Content Labels: Change how the assignment is labeled in the UI (for example, “Homework” or “Project”). This is a cosmetic setting only. Changing the label does not change how the assignment behaves.
• Time Estimates: Once the assignment is saved, time estimation will be available. The initial estimate is AI-generated based on the assignment content. You can edit it manually. If you add more content later, you can retrigger the AI estimate. If the assignment does not have enough content, the AI option will be unavailable.

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Review Submissions

When Required to Progress is enabled, submissions enter a pending review state until an instructor acts on them.

1. Open the assignment and select the Admin button > Submissions.
2. Click Submissions Report.
3. Click into a submission to review it.
4. Select Pass or Fail. The submission status updates immediately and members are unblocked to progress if passed.

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View Analytics

After an assignment is created, an Analytics tab becomes available.

1. Open the assignment and select the Admin button > Analytics.
2. Review total views and unique viewers for the assignment.

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Share an Assignment by Email

Send the assignment directly to all members of the Program.

1. Open the assignment and click the Admin button > Select Share by Email
2. Customize the email subject and email body. 
3. Click Share. The assignment is sent to the members enrolled in that program.

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