Create an assignment
This article is for teachers
When you create an assignment, you can post it immediately, save a draft, or schedule it to post at a later date. After students complete and turn in their work, you can grade and return it to the students.
When you create an assignment, you can:
- Post to one or more classes
- Post to individual students
- Add a grade category
- Change the point value
- Add a due date or time
- Add a topic
- Add attachments
Create an assignment
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Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, you@yourschool.edu or you@gmail.com. Learn more.
- Click the class
Classwork.
- At the top, click Create
Assignment.
- Enter the title and any instructions.
Post to one or more classes
Next to For, click the Down arrow
select the class or classes you want to include.
Note: You can’t post to individual students across multiple classes. Posts to multiple classes are shared with all students in the classes.
Post to individual students
By default, an assignment posts to all students in the class. You can post an assignment to individual students. However, you can’t post to individual students if more than one class is included. And, you can’t post to more than 100 individual students at a time.
- Next to All students, click the Down arrow
All students to deselect it.
- Select the students you want to post the assignment to.
Add a grade category
For organization, you can add grade categories to assignments. With grade categories, you and your students can see the category an assignment belongs to, such as Homework or Essays. Teachers also see the categories on the Grades page.
Next to Grade category, click the Down arrow
select a category from the menu.
For more information on grade categories, go to Add a grade category to posts or Set up grading.
Change the point value
You can change the point value of an assignment or make the assignment ungraded. By default, assignments are set at 100 points.
- Next to Points, click the value.
- Enter a new point value or select Ungraded.
Add a due date or time
By default, an assignment has no due date. To change this:
- Next to Due, click the Down arrow
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- Next to No due date, click the Down arrow
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- Click a date on the calendar.
- (Optional) To set a due time, click Time and enter a time.
Note: When you enter a time, Classroom defaults to PM unless you specify AM.
Add a topic
- Next to No topic, click the Down arrow
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- Choose an option:
- To create a topic, click Create topic and enter a topic name.
- To select a topic in the list, click it.
Note: You can only add one topic to an assignment.
Learn more about how to add topics to the Classwork page.
Add attachments
You can add attachments to your assignment, such as files from your computer, Google Drive files, YouTube videos, or links.
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To delete an attachment, next to it, click Remove .
To decide how students interact with an attachment, next to the attachment, click the Down arrow and choose an option:
- Students can view file—All students can read the file, but not edit it.
- Students can edit file—All students share the same file and can make changes to it.
- Make a copy for each student—Students get their own copy of the file with their name added to the document title. For Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files, both you and the student can edit the document. When students turn in the assignment, they can’t edit the document until you return it to them.
Note: If you see a message that you don’t have permission to attach a file, click Copy. Classroom makes a copy to attach to the assignment and saves it to the class Drive folder.
When you create an assignment, you can post it immediately, schedule it to post later, or save it as a draft.
To see scheduled and drafted assignments, click Classwork.
Post an assignment
To post the assignment immediately, click Assign.
Schedule the assignment to post later
- Next to Assign, click the Down arrow
Schedule.
- Next to the date, click the Down arrow
and select a date and time. When you enter a time, Classroom defaults to PM unless you specify AM.
- Click Schedule. The assignment will automatically post at the scheduled date and time.
Note: To schedule the assignment for another class, schedule it first for one class and then reuse the post for the other class.
Save an assignment as a draft
Next to Assign, click the Down arrow
Save draft.
Note: If you post an assignment to multiple classes, edits made in one class won’t transfer to the other classes.
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Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, you@yourschool.edu or you@gmail.com. Learn more.
- Click the class
Classwork.
- Next to the assignment, click More
Edit.
- Choose an option:
- For a posted or scheduled assignment: Make your changes and click Save.
- For a draft assignment: Make your changes. Next to Assign, click the Down arrow
Save draft.
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Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, you@yourschool.edu or you@gmail.com. Learn more.
- At the top, click Classwork
the assignment
View Assignment.
- To add a comment to the class, at the top, click Instructions.
- Click Add class comment, enter your comment, and click Post.
If you delete an assignment, all grades and comments related to the assignment are deleted. However, any attachments or files created by you or the students are still available in Drive.
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Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, you@yourschool.edu or you@gmail.com. Learn more.
- Click your class
Classwork.
- Next to the assignment, click More
Delete. Click Delete again to confirm.