Use the Assignments tool in Sakai (rather than the deprecated “Assignments 2” tool) to organize and collect student submissions for assessment. Assignments allows you to quickly see a list of students and their submission status. You can keep all student submissions for as long as you maintain the Sakai site.
add assignment
To add a new assignment:
- From Assignments in the left-hand menu, click the Add tab along the top of the page
- Type in a title for the new assignment
- You must add 3 dates: open, due, and accept until
- Select the type of student submission you require
- generally “inline only” for very brief short answers
- “single uploaded file only” for paper that will be checked against Turnitin anti-plagiarism system
- If you’d like students to be able to submit more than once, check “Allow Resubmission” and complete the options
- Grade scale must be set to “points” if you want Sakai to calculate a final course grade
- Enter the maximum number of points the student can earn from this assignment
- In the instructions box, you can type or paste assignment details (or refer to another document; e.g., “see syllabus”); often you will add technical details here, such as, “Upload your paper as a Word document (.doc or .docx) or a PDF only”
- To promote academic integrity, you can check the “add honor pledge” and/or “use Turnitin” options
- Under the Grading section, you will probably wish to associate this assignment with an existing Gradebook item, or create a new Gradebook item
- Use the “Add Attachment” button if your students need supporting documents to complete the assignment
- After reviewing all the assignment options, click Post at the bottom of the page