How do I create and manage assignments?

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The article provides a detailed guide on creating, editing, managing, and deleting assignments within Perusall. For this article, we are using a standard assignment as the example. 

Create assignments

  1. Navigate to Course home > Assignments > +Add assignment 
    A screenshot of the Perusall "Assignments" page shows the option to add various types of assignments, with blue arrows highlighting the "Add assignment" buttons.
     
  2. Fill out the assignment information in the following tabs:
  • Select a Assignment Name and Submission Deadline.
    A modal window titled "Add assignment" in Perusall displays fields for entering the assignment name and submission deadline, with navigation tabs for Basics, Content, Options, and Scoring.

  • Choose Content to assign from the dropdown menu. Click + Add another part to use multiple library items in one assignment, and click Remove this part to delete an unwanted section.  For more info, see: How do I create assignments that include multiple section or page ranges?

    A Perusall "Add assignment" screen shows the "Content" tab, where users can select material to assign and choose specific sections from a table of contents, such as Introduction, Task 1–4, and Takeaways.

  • The following settings are optional:

    • Instructions for students- provide instructions that will be visible in the assignment information tab while students work on the assignment.
    • Visible to students starting on- sets when students can begin accessing the assignment. If you include a visibility date, this also acts as a scoring start date -- meaning that no work completed before this date will be calculated into this assignment's score.
    • Assign to - dictates who which students will work on the assignment.
    • Anonymous posting - dictates if students are allowed to post anonymous comments.
    • Assignment is optional- if enabled, this assignment will not show up in the gradebook.

    A window showing the Options section of the assignment creation process. Users can add instructions, a visibility date, determine who to assign to, anonymity settings, and optional or extra credit status to an assignment.

  • Navigate to Scoring to either use a pre-made scoring template or create a new one. Learn more about scoring templates.

    A window showing the scoring components. This is within the assignment creation process. This includes the scoring template, the score range, threshold scoring, and the 7 perusall scoring components with their associated percentage weights.

Edit & manage assignments

To edit an individual assignment, click: Course home > Assignments > select a assignment, and press Gear Solid Icon.svgEdit.

  • Use the multi-select tool to modify multiple assignments at once.
    • To manage all assignment submission deadlines and visibility dates in one place, click on Edit Deadlines at the top right of your Assignments Page.
      A screenshot of the Perusall Assignments tab with three assignments selected via small white check boxes. One assignment is indicated with a blue arrow as an example. A second blue arrow shows the "selected" dropdown menu, which allows users to edit multiple assignments at once (i.e. deadline edits, bulk deletes, etc.).
  • If you have many assignments, select Hide old assignments (at the top of your assignments list) to hide all assignments who've submission dates have passed from your view.

Default assignment instructions

Under Gear Solid Icon.svg Settings > Advanced > Library & assignments, you can provide instructions that will apply to all assignments created in the course. Any instructions you add to a particular assignment will override the instructions specified here.

A screenshot of course Settings, showing the Advanced section. In this portion of settings, users can specify settings for the Library & Assignments within a course.

Delete & recover assignments

  • To delete an individual assignment, navigate to Course home > Assignments > select an assignment, and press Delete.

    Comments are tied to the document in the library, so if an assignment is deleted, comments are still discoverable from the library.  You can recreate an assignment using the same content, and the comments will reappear in the new assignment.

  • Click on Deleted assignments at the bottom of the page to view/restore any deleted assignments.

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