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Assignments
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Overview (animated illustration)
Clear Cache: Important!
Locked Out
Submit Assignment (animated illustration for attached files)
Time Zones
Edit Assignment
View Assignment
Overview
Students turn in personal work in the Assignments Folder. Student submissions are visible only to the author and to the class faculty. Assignments may be created in text boxes or as attachments. Once an instructor grades an assignment, it disappears from your assignment folder and reappears in the your portfolio with the grade noted.
  
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Clear Cache: Important!
Before you edit an assignment you have already created and saved, clear cache. Otherwise, when you open the assignment you may find that your original text is gone.
Locked Out
Your instructor may choose to lock an assignment so that once 12:00 AM on the specified date has been reached you may no longer access or submit the assignment. If you open the assignment moments before the lock date and time, and press the Submit button after the lock date has passed you will be blocked from submitting. Read about Time Stamping.
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Submit Assignments
- Before you do anything else, select the kind of text box to use (Plain Text, TFE, or HTML) with Account Preferences, and if you are copying and pasting from MS Word, turn off Smart Quotes in MS Word.
- Click on Assignments Folder from the Class Menu.
- Click on the title of the assignment you wish to complete
- Type a title (required.) Do not use HTML tags in title box.
- Type or copy and paste content into the text box.
- Text boxes are intended for very short assignments with simple or no formatting.
- Attach File (Optional)
- Then, click on Save, Submit, or Cancel.
Save
Only you may view the saved assignment at this time. Your instructor will not see the assignment until you click Submit. You may return to the assignment later and continue editing and saving until you are ready to submit it for a grade. However, you may not delete saved assignments.
Submit
Now you and your instructor may see your assignment. Your instructor may assign a grade or return it to you ungraded and you may submit again. This process is to be arranged between you and your instructor.
View animation for attaching a file.
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Time Zones
Note that all submissions are time stamped Eastern Standard Time (EST.) If you are not in that time zone you may identify the current time by clicking on Options and selecting World Clock.
Edit Assignments
- Click on Assignment Folder on the Class Menu
- Click on the title of the saved assignment you wish to edit
- Click on Edit or Submit for Grading, or Return to Assignments Folder.
- If you choose Edit, you will be presented with your work in its current state.
- Make your changes and Save as Draft, or Submit for Grading, or Cancel.
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View Assignments
Portfolio. A record of your online activity including conference participation and all graded assignments is stored in your personal Portfolio. Class faculty may view your Portfolio.
Assignments Folder. This contains a record of active (ungraded) assignments only. Status in the Assignments Folder is indicated as one of the following:
New: Not saved nor submitted. When you click on the new assignment, you will be able to save or submit as draft.
Saved: Your instructor cannot see this assignment. You may not delete it but you may edit and save, edit and submit, or submit for grade.
Submitted: This is an assignment that can be seen by your instructor. Once submitted, you may edit it and resubmit until your instructor grades it, but you may never return it to a saved status.
Returned Ungraded: This is an assignment that you have submitted, but your instructor has not assigned a grade. Instead he or she is returning it to you to submit again. Your instructor's reason for doing this may be attached to your assignment, or may be sent to you via e-mail.
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