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4 Ways We’ve Made Teaching in WebAssign Easier
We asked over 1,000 instructors about how we could make teaching in WebAssign easier for you—and you gave us great feedback. We’re dedicated to improving your experience, prioritizing the areas of WebAssign that make the most impact on teaching and learning. With these new improvements , you can easily deliver flexible, quality content to your students—and get some of your ”you time” back. Let’s explore some of the latest WebAssign improvements and ways we’ve made your teaching experience easier.
1. Find pages faster with a more intuitive navigation
You’re now able to find pages and features faster with the redesigned instructor navigation in WebAssign. This new menu reorganizes your existing tools and resources into a more intuitive design.
2. Save time building your course with improved Course Packs
Don’t want to build your own assignments? Let us build them for you. Save time designing your course with Course Packs , which have recently been improved with even more functionality based on your feedback. With this new design, you can find and select individual assignments more easily and auto schedule them to your course.
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3. Build assignments quickly with a redesigned Assignment Editor
If you prefer to create your own assignments, we’ve made that process easier too. You can take advantage of the flexibility of WebAssign with a redesigned process for creating assignments. It starts with three simple steps: information, settings and questions. We reorganized your assignment settings into three core areas:
- Scoring controls how the assignment is graded and has been updated, making it easier for you to choose the right option for your assignment such as giving students multiple submissions or awarding bonus points for students submitting assignments early.
- Cheating deterrents offers settings to help you cut down on cheating before it even happens, with the ability to hide question names, randomize question order and values, among other settings.
- Lastly, in Student Feedback , you can now easily control what feedback and resources students can access, including help tools like Read Its, Watch Its and Master Its.
4. Offer students more opportunities to practice with Mastery
The newest addition to WebAssign is Mastery . Mastery allows you to offer your students more opportunities to practice course topics. Students will answer a group of randomized questions, similar in difficulty, on the same topic. They will need to answer a set number of questions, determined by you, correctly to earn credit for the question set. If the student is unable to correctly answer the set number of questions to meet the threshold, they can try another attempt with a new set of problems.
Want a live demonstration of these features? Check out the video, “Transforming Your WebAssign Experience” for a deeper dive into the new upgrades.
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Question and Assignment Templates
How to Access and Use Templates
Option 1: use the ‘access template’ buttons to automatically access questions & assignments.
1) Make sure you’re logged into your WebAssign account 2) Click the ‘Access Template’ button below the question or assignment you’d like to use 3) The template will open in WebAssign as a ‘duplicate’ 4) Customize as you see fit and then ‘Save’ 5) You’ll now find the question under ‘My Questions’ or ‘My Assignments’
Option 2: Search the Question or Assignment IDs
1. Search the question ID or assignment ID provided in the search box 2. Click the name of a question 3. Choose ‘duplicate’ and rename the question 5. Customize as you see fit and then ‘Save’ 6. You’ll now find the question under ‘My Questions’ or ‘My Assignments’
Attendance & Polling Templates
Attendance question.
This is a sample attendance question that says ‘Are You Present?’ and prompts students to confirm they are with a multiple-choice question with only one answer ‘Present’.
Question ID: 4209437
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Attendance Assignment
This assignment includes two different questions that can be used to take attendance in your course.
Assignment ID: 20352173
Polling question.
This question asks for students’ level of confidence on the topic covered. Any response will be marked as correct.
Question ID: 5154896
Polling assignment.
This assignment includes a sample poll question where students can choose any answer and it will be marked correct.
Assignment ID: 20352182
Media templates: videos and documents, youtube video embedded question.
Here is a question with an embedded YouTube video and a single, fill-in-the-blank question.
Question ID: 5219538
Youtube video embedded assignment.
Explore three different ways to embed a video including in the instructions, in a question and with a link to the Cengage library
Assignment ID: 17881816
Cengage video embedded assignment.
This template helps you add links to different Cengage videos, or other external videos in the assignment instructions.
Assignment ID: 17881866
Google drive embedded assignment.
Embed a folder from your Google Drive into the assignment instructions to deliver multiple documents to your students — with automatic syncing
Assignment ID: 17881849
File upload question.
Use this template for students to upload a file from your computer. Be sure not to use this question with the Lockdown Browser.
Question ID: 5222933
Excel embedded assignment.
Learn how to embed excel documents within questions in this assignment.
Assignment ID: 20351168
Powerpoint embedded assignment.
Learn how to embed a PowerPoint document in the assignment instructions followed by a multiple-choice question.
Assignment ID: 17881813
Word document embedded assignment.
Learn how to embed a Microsoft Word document in the assignment instructors followed by a multiple-choice question.
Assignment ID: 17881861
Misc question templates, tutorial question.
This breaks down a question into four parts to walk students through the process step-by-step
Question ID: 1251029
Graphing question.
Provide a graphing tool in the question for students to graph points, lines, segments, rays, circles, parabolas, and inequalities on a Cartesian coordinate plane. Graphing questions are automatically scored.
Question ID: 1077759
Multi-mode question.
Multi-mode question allow you to add extra steps to a single question — for example, multiple-choice and essay. These provide extra levels of interaction to a question, making it more engaging for students.
Question ID: 5154895
Randomized question (numerical).
Randomized questions generates a variety of different values for the same question so students will receive different versions.
Question ID: 5222927
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Assignment Scoring Settings. Set how assignment questions and question parts are submitted and scored and select the gradebook category for the assignment. Optionally, configure bonus or penalty points, allow students to show their work, or override the recommended tolerance or significant figures behaviors.
Create a new assignment template from an existing assignment to reuse its settings for other assignments. Edit Assignment Templates You can change any of your assignment templates in WebAssign. If you change an assignment template that is already used in one or more assignments, you can select which assignments should be updated to use the new ...
WebAssign. Instructor Help Skip to start of content. ... some formerly supported settings are removed from your assignment. These settings were infrequently used and in some cases could result in negative learning experiences for students. Note To keep these settings enabled in an existing assignment, do not edit or ...
WebAssign provides default assignment templates, or you can customize and save your own assignment templates. Assignment Scoring Settings Set how assignment questions and question parts are submitted and scored and select the gradebook category for the assignment.
WebAssign lets you set testing restrictions on assignments to deliver a secure online or proctored assessment. Use Password Protection, IP Restrictions, Timed Tests, and Lockdown Browser or any combination thereof, to deliver the assessment you're most comfortable with. Our Conditional Release of Assignment restriction enables you to build a ...
If needed, you can change some WebAssign assignment behaviors in your class settings. This lets you use the same assignments for different classes with different behaviors in each class. For example, you might give partial credit for correctly specifying units in a physics survey course, but not give partial credit for units in an introductory course for physics majors.
Assignments are the work you do for your class in WebAssign, and might include homework assignments, labs, quizzes, or tests, depending on your instructor. How many times you can submit an assignment. If you can have extensions of due dates. The kind of feedback that you receive after you submit an assignment.
2 At the top of the Assignments list, click Add from Course Pack. 3 Click an assignment name to preview it in a new tab. 4Select the assignments you want to add to your course. 5 Click Add Course Pack Assignments. Create your own assignments 1 Click Assignments > Create Assignment. 2 Type an Assignment Name. 3 Edit the assignment settings.
Use assignment templates to apply consistent settings for all of your assignments of the same type. WebAssign provides several assignment templates that you can use, or you can create your own templates. Scheduling Assignments. Schedule frequent short assignments. Set the due date to one hour before the class meets. Extensions Encourage ...
Use assignment templates to apply consistent settings for all of your assignments of the same type. WebAssign provides several assignment templates that you can use, or you can create your own templates. Schedule frequent short assignments instead of a few long ones. Use a variety of assignment categories, for example:
Notification Settings: I show them the notifications settings and show them that they can get ... Schedule the Getting Started with WebAssign assignment during the first week of class to make sure students understand how to use the platform. The Getting Started with WebAssign assignments are available and personalized for all major disciplines ...
Stay ahead of the curve and incorporate these ten strategies for using WebAssign in person in your traditional classroom. Save time and boost student communication, engagement and understanding. 1. Take Attendance with WebAssign in Person. An example of an attendance assignment in WebAssign.
Best Assignment Settings for Practice Exams. Once you've selected your questions, you're ready to optimize the delivery of the practice exam to students for the best learning experience. The WebAssign Content Team recommends you customize an existing assignment template, or create a new one following these best practices:
Set up the WebAssign GradeBook to calculate assignment category averages, final scores, or letter grades from assignments completed in WebAssign and scores you enter or upload. ... After importing the settings, you can change them if needed. Video Tutorial: Set Up GradeBook In this video tutorial, you will learn how to set up your GradeBook. ...
Instructor. Help. Provide engaging content, challenge every individual and build student confidence with WebAssign, the platform that gives you complete control over your course. If this is your first time teaching with WebAssign, learn how to sign in, create your first course, and enroll students. WebAssign software releases include ...
1. Create an Assignment Category for Quizzes and/or Tests. By setting your assignment category and choosing a template, you'll be able to have predetermined settings you can apply to any new test or quiz you create. WebAssign's default Assignment Templates for quizzes, tests and exams allow students fewer submission attempts than homework ...
The first step to taking attendance in WebAssign is to set up your gradebook. This allows you to consolidate attendance grades into one category and set a weighting. Follow these steps: Create an Assignment Category for Attendance. Start by creating a new assignment category within your WebAssign gradebook specifically for attendance.
3. Build assignments quickly with a redesigned Assignment Editor. If you prefer to create your own assignments, we've made that process easier too. You can take advantage of the flexibility of WebAssign with a redesigned process for creating assignments. It starts with three simple steps: information, settings and questions.
Learn how to set up a timed exam in WebAssign, give select students extra time, enable LockDown browser and more with this quick tutorial video.
From the menu bar, click Communication. If needed, select a class. Expand Extensions and click Unanswered. Click Settings in the top right corner of the message list. Select Enable. Under Class Default, set the Extension Policy to either Automatic Extensions or Automatic and Manual Extensions.
This fall, you'll be able to push a button and send a 0 to your LMS gradebook for un-attempted student work in WebAssign. Get the Details. New Instructor Experience. We're making teaching in WebAssign easier with instructor experience improvements, including a more intuitive site navigation and assignment-creation process. Learn More
Question pools are accessed from the Question Browser within the Assignment Editor. Randomize Question Order. WebAssign assignment settings empower you to order questions in a randomized or fixed manner. This randomization option limits the ability for students to find another student with the same set of questions and randomization to copy from.
1) Make sure you're logged into your WebAssign account. 2) Click the 'Access Template' button below the question or assignment you'd like to use. 3) The template will open in WebAssign as a 'duplicate'. 4) Customize as you see fit and then 'Save'. 5) You'll now find the question under 'My Questions' or 'My Assignments'.