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 have completed and handed in their work, you can mark and return it to the students.

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Create and post assignments

Create an assignment

In classes created after April 17, 2019, posts to the Classwork page appear at the top.

When you create an assignment, you can:

• Select one or more classes
• Select individual students
• Add a mark category
• Add a marking period
• Change the point value
• Add a due date or time
• Add a topic
• Add attachments
• Add a rubric
• Turn on originality reports

Create an assignment

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. Click the class Classwork.
3. At the top, click Create Assignment.
4. Enter the title and any instructions.

You can continue to edit and customise your assignment. Otherwise, if you're ready, see below to post, schedule or save your assignment.

Select additional classes

Assignments to multiple classes go to all of the students in those classes.

1. Create an assignment (details above).
2. Under For, click the down arrow select the class or classes that you want to include.

Select individual students

Unless you're selecting multiple classes, you can select individual students. You can't select more than 100 students at a time.

1. Create an assignment (details above).
2. Next to All students, click the down arrow All students again to deselect students.
3. Click a student's name to select them.

Add a mark category

Use mark categories to organise assignments. With mark 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 Marks page.

1. Create an assignment (details above).
2. Under Mark category, click the down arrow select a category from the menu.

For more information on mark categories, go to Add a mark category to posts or Set up marking.

Add a marking period

To organise assignments and marks into your school or district's marking structure, create marking periods, such as quarters or terms.

1. Create an assignment (details above).
2. Under 'Marking period', click the down arrow .
3. From the menu, select a marking period.

Tip: Before adding a marking period to an assignment, create a marking period for the class first. Learn how to create or edit marking periods.

Change the point value

You can change the point value of an assignment or make the assignment unmarked. By default, assignments are set at 100 points.

1. Create an assignment (details above).
2. Under Points, click the value.
3. Enter a new point value or select Unmarked.

Add a due date or time

By default, an assignment has no due date. To set a due date:

1. Create an assignment (details above).
2. Under Due, click the down arrow .
3. Next to No due date, click the down arrow .
4. Click a date on the calendar.
5. (Optional) To set a due time, click Time enter a time and specify a.m. or p.m.
   Note: Work is marked as Missing or Handed in late as soon as the due date and time arrive. For example, for work to be on time at 9.00 a.m., set the time due to 9.01 a.m. For instructions on checking work status, go to View student assignments.

Add a topic

1. Create an assignment (details above).
2. Under Topic, click the down arrow .
3. Choose an option:
   • To create a topic, click Create topic and enter a topic name.
   • Click a topic in the list to select it.

Note: You can only add one topic to an assignment.

Learn more about how to add topics to the Classwork page.

Add attachments

1. Create an assignment.
2. In the assignment, below 'Attach', choose:
   • Drive : Attach files with Google Drive to your assignment.
     • Important: Google Drive files can be edited by co-teachers and are view-only for students. To change these share options, you can stop, limit or change sharing.
   • YouTube : Add YouTube videos to your assignment.
     • To add YouTube videos, an admin must turn on this option. Learn about access settings for your Google Workspace for Education account.
     • You can add interactive questions to YouTube video attachments. Learn how to add interactive questions to YouTube video attachments.
   • Create : Create new Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Drawings or forms.
   • Practice sets : Create or attach a previously created interactive assignment. Learn more about practice sets.
     • Tip: When you attach a practice set to an assignment, you can't edit it.
   • Upload : Upload a file from your computer to your assignment.
   • Link : Attach a link to your assignment.
3. If you see a message stating that you don't have permission to attach a file, click Copy. Classroom makes a copy of the file to attach to the assignment and saves it to the class Drive folder.
4. Next to the attachment, click the down arrow and choose an option for how students interact with the attachment:
   • 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 Google Docs, Sheets or Slides file with their name added to the document title. You and the student can edit the document. When students hand in the assignment, they can't edit the document until you return it to them.

     Note: This option is only available before you post an assignment.

5. (Optional) To delete an attachment, next to the attachment, click Remove .

Use an add-on

For instructions, go to Use add-ons in Classroom

Add a rubric

For instructions, go to Create or reuse a rubric for an assignment.

Turn on originality reports

For instructions, go to Turn on originality reports.

Post, schedule or save a draft assignment

You can post an assignment immediately or schedule it to be posted later. If you don't want to post it yet, you can save it as a draft. To see scheduled and drafted assignments, click Classwork.

Post an assignment

1. Follow the steps above to create an assignment.
2. Click Assign to immediately post the assignment.

Schedule the assignment to be posted later

Scheduled assignments might be delayed by up to five minutes after the post time.

1. Follow the steps above to create an assignment and select classes.
   • To schedule the same assignment across multiple classes, make sure that you select all of the classes that you want to include.
2. Next to Assign, click the down arrow Schedule.
3. Next to the date, click the down arrow and select a publish date and time for each class.
   • When you enter a time, Classroom defaults to p.m. unless you specify a.m.
4. For multiple classes only:
   • (Optional) Select a due date and topic for each class.
   • (Optional) To replicate your selected time and date for the first class into all subsequent classes, click Copy settings to all.
5. Click Schedule. The assignment will automatically post on the scheduled date, at the scheduled time.

After scheduling multiple assignments at once, you can still edit assignments later by clicking into each class and changing them individually.

Save an assignment as a draft

1. Follow the steps above to create an assignment
2. Next to Assign, click the down arrow Save draft.

You can open and edit draft assignments on the Classwork page.

Manage assignments

Edit an assignment

Edits affect individual classes. For multi-class assignments, make edits in each class.

Note: If you change an assignment's name, the assignment's Drive folder name isn't updated. Go to Drive and rename the folder.

Edit a posted assignment

1. On the Classwork page, next to the assignment, click More Edit.
2. Enter your changes and click Save.

Edit a scheduled assignment

1. On the Classwork page, next to the assignment, click More Edit.
2. Enter your changes and click Schedule.

Edit a draft assignment

1. On the Classwork page, next to the draft assignment, click More Edit.
2. Click the assignment and enter your changes.

   Changes are automatically saved.

3. Choose an option:
   • Assign it immediately (details above).
   • Schedule it to be posted on a specific date, at a specific time (details above).
   • To keep it as a draft and return to the Classwork page, at the top, click Close .

Add a class comment to the assignment

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. Click a class.
3. Click Classwork the assignment View instructions.
4. Click Add class comment enter your comment click Post.

Reuse an assignment

To reuse an assignment, see Reuse a post.

Delete an assignment

You can only delete an assignment on the Classwork page.

If you delete an assignment, all of the marks and comments related to the assignment are deleted. However, any attachments or files created by you or the students are still available in Drive.

Warning! There's no way to undo deleting an assignment.

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. Click your class Classwork.
3. Next to the assignment, click More Delete Delete again to confirm.

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