NEW Courses Released: Assignments + features in the Gradebook

Reader Disclosure

It's back-to-school season! In most parts of the globe, the first day of school is right close by ( if it hasn't started already) and students who are soon to be on the way are enjoying their last few day of freedom from summer.

WHAT'S INSIDE          Toggle

•     Courses The #1 LMS Tool for Online Educators
•     Unleash Creativity in Coursework with NEW Assignments
•       3 Reasons Why You’ll Love Adding Assignments to Your Online Courses
•     How to Create Assignments in  Courses
•     Simplify Assessment Tasks with the NEW Gradebook
•       3 Reasons Why You’ll Love the Gradebook Add-On
•       How to Set Up and Grade Assignments with Gradebook
•     Conclusion

Teachers, on the other hand were returning to their classrooms for months, setting up fresh arrangement of seating, hanging up new posters, creating up-to-date attendance sheets and experimenting with new teaching techniques they are eager to test with their incoming students.

Here at , we want our online educators to feel the same enthusiasm and excitement in establishing an interactive and efficient online learning space for their students.

This is why we're excited to announce new tools for students. new Courses tools: Assignmentsand Gradebook:

• Assignments: Students can finish and submit many assignments directly in the curriculum. From writing essays to designing web pages to designing digital portfolios and multimedia materials, these projects will help them develop analytical, technical and communication skills, giving the instructor a complete picture of their understanding.
• Gradebook: The process of grading has become easier to manage, and allows users to keep track of all their grades from one place. This makes it easier for keeping track of individual progress and makes it easier for you to monitor performance and provide timely feedback. Students can also easily view their grades, helping them remain informed and inspired in achieving their learning goals.

We designed these tools for your classroom online to be more engaging, organized, and ready for a great educational experience for you as well as your students.

We'll take a look!

Courses: The Most Popular LMS tool for online educators

This powerful tool was created to improve your online teaching experience, and allows you to focus on what you enjoy most: teaching and sharing your knowledge.

• Our user-friendly interface simplifies the creation of courses, making it easy and enjoyable to build your curriculum.
• Automatically issue certificates to students upon course completion, adding value and recognition to their efforts.
• You can customize the design and layout of your classes to match your branding perfectly by using a variety of customization options, ensuring your students have a fully customized learning experience.
• Enjoy seamless transactions with various payment gateways, making course enrollment and fee collection hassle-free.
• Control who accesses your content by defining access restrictions, providing an exclusive and secure learning environment.
• Access detailed guides, tutorials as well as personalized assistance for helping you setup and optimize your courses efficiently.

Our passion for excellence is what sets Courses above the others and makes us an industry leader within the LMS market.

Yes, it takes extra effort to be successful in both fields, but ours is a no-brainer because our users deserve the best!

Our commitment to constantly research new trends in the market, adopt best practices, and enhance our tools so that we can meet or exceed the expectations of our customers.

And it's this commitment that has led to the development of the latest feature: Assignmentsand Grading Book.

The tools designed by these are intended to help keep your students in the right direction and help ensure that your role as an online teacher is easy and efficient as it is.

Inspire creativity in your coursework with NEW Assignments

By incorporating different types of work, you can not only create a more enjoyable classroom for your students, you can enhance your teaching strategies.

This is how you can broaden the content of your class by offering a variety of choices for assignments:

• Writing Reports and Essays: Encourage students to think about their ideas by writing traditional essays or demanding serious detective work for investigative reports.
  
• Digital Projects: Spark creativity by having students build web pages or craft portfolios using digital technology. Ideal for subjects that require visual creativity for example, the design of websites, digital marketing and graphic design.
  
• Media Submissions Let students show off their talents through videos, graphics, or other formats for multimedia. It's great for courses that need a little action, like public speaking or software tutorials.
  
• Complex Projects The students are required to mix it all together including text, images, and media - to create all-encompassing projects that demonstrate an understanding of subject and satisfy the expectations of their assignments.

Three reasons why you'll love the idea of adding assignments to online Courses:

1. Promotes a Diverse Set of skills

The Assignments addition broadens the scope of learning to go beyond typical writing tasks. It's designed to help students build a broad array of the skills they'll employ in daily life.

• Writing and Analytical Skills: Drafting essays or research papers doesn't just mean putting words on paper. Students delve into complex conceptual thinking. They are taught to construct solid arguments, support the arguments with evidence and express their thoughts clearly and with precision.
  
• Technical and Design Skills: When students get into assignments like designing pages for websites or making digital portfolios, they're applying actual technical skills, from programming through graphic designing. These tasks also help them learn the fundamentals of design as well as user-experience, both of which are crucial for careers in digital marketing and web development.
  
• Media Production Skills: working on multimedia or video projects, students learn more than just the fundamentals of cutting or editing. Students investigate storytelling structure, understand the subtleties of audiovisual storytelling and master the technical details of multimedia production.
  
• Presentation and Communication Skills: Whether it's showcasing an online portfolio, making an audio or video clip, or preparing reports, writing in various formats sharpens students' ability to present their ideas clearly and persuasively - critical skills for any career path.

 2. Increases Interaction

Each assignment has been created to motivate students to delve deeper into their education and to remain actively engaged all through the program.

• Experiment with Learning Styles: With a range of activities, students can have the freedom to explore and find out what is most effective for them. To determine whether they are proficient in critical thinking, technical tasks and creative work, or the art of storytelling, let them experiment with different approaches and identify their strengths.
  
• Keep curious and engaged: The variety of assignments keep the learning process active and interesting. Through the constant introduction of different formats and challenges the students are always interested and emotionally engaged in their course.
  
• Experience the learning process: Offering a mix of assignment types makes it a pleasurable experience. Students are more likely to look forward to assignments when they know they'll encounter new challenges every time, which makes the process of learning enjoyable and enjoyable.

 3. Configurable Settings

Each course is unique, so we've designed the Assignments add-on to offer many options for customization. It's flexible enough to alter assignments so that they are in line with your objectives for the course and satisfy the needs of your students.

• Certain Character Counts. Set character limits to ensure that students stay on track. To ensure that their writing is precise without being rambling, or overly brief, helping maintain the standard of their writing.
  
• Points for Achievement. Give points to students who have completed their assignments in order to motivate students to put in their best effort. It's an excellent method to motivate them and recognize their hard work.
  
• Resubmission Opportunities. Let students resubmit their work after feedback, helping to learn from mistakes and to improve. This is an excellent method to develop a mental attitude that is focused on getting better.

How do you create assignments in the course

Begin by incorporating the task into your curriculum, then note your directions in the assignment's page.

When you go to make your assignment live, remember to add an image of your choice, classify your content using tags and secure access for assignments using Rules If necessary.

Stay with us to learn how to grade homework with the NEW Gradebook add-on next! The video tutorial is detailed...

Simplify Assessment Tasks with the NEW Gradebook

As an educator, you understand that teaching involves much more than just delivering lectures. When your students are completed the course, completed assignments, and taken quizzes, it's time for you to evaluate their efforts.

Prior to that, assessing student progress meant navigating through each quiz in a separate way to review the participants, their responses, and scores.

Every course that is on your site is fitted with a Gradebook. As soon as students complete quizzes or assignments, their work automatically populates within the gradebook.

The Gradebook allows you to review and evaluate each of your students' activities on one single page. The gradebook combines their work and tests in one location which makes it easy to evaluate and track the performance of each student.

3 Reasons Why You'll Love this Gradebook Add-On

1. Simplifies the Management of Grades

The new Gradebook feature focuses on simplifying your life in handling grades.

It consolidates all the grading requirements in one administration interface, removing the frustration of having to manage different spreadsheets or scrolling through pages.

All of the information is in one place, you can quickly assess how each student is doing on their assignments and quizzes. This does not just speed down the process of marking but also makes it much easier and significantly less stressful.

2. Individual Classroom Tracking for Students and Teachers

Through the Gradebook add-on, you gain access to live, immediate reports, which show individual student progress and general performance of the class.

The dual overview can help you quickly identify trends, recognize areas where students could require extra support or assistance, and modify your methods of teaching accordingly.

The Gradebook also features filtering and searching options. This makes it possible to modify your view of quizzes or assignments as well as student progress.

Each student's submitted quizzes and assignments as well as their marks as well as their total score.

Getting a handle on these patterns allows you to tailor your teaching to fit each student's needs, making sure that every student receives the appropriate level of assistance to succeed.

3. Transparent Feedback

The Gradebook simplifies the process of your feedback and grading. It gives a concise overview of your scores for every test and assignment, so that you and your students can track their progress easily.

This clarity helps identify areas where students are doing very well, and areas where they might need some more support.

It is also possible to award bonuses for outstanding work, providing a quick and meaningful way to encourage and recognize effort.

One of the most valuable features for teachers is the personalized feedback section. Here, you can leave specific feedback right beside the grades:

The system allows you to leave pointed feedback that students can be able to match with their marks, boosting both your teaching impact and their learning focus.

A well-organized Gradebook system keeps you organized and enhances your ability to guide and support each student's learning process, thereby making the learning process more efficient and personalised.

How to Set Up and Grade Assignments with the Gradebook

The time has come to put away that old-fashioned gradebook with its tiny text and crowded columns! The Gradebook extension introduces a new, user-friendly approach to the process of grading.

It features a clean and easy-to-use interface. It does more than just improve the way you view student data however, it also simplifies the grading process, offering an attractive and complete summary.

In your Gradebook, you'll find everything neatly organized: each student's quizzes, assignments and tests as well as the grades you've given them as well as their total scores which are clearly visible in one central spot.

Additionally, any item that hasn't been graded yet is marked clearly as "ungraded," making it easy to spot what needs your attention in the near future.

Watch our complete video guide for step-by-step guidance on creating assignments for grading for courses:

Conclusion

Get ready for an unforgettable school year by utilizing Courses new and greatest: the Courseworkand Grading Bookadd-ons.

These innovative tools are designed to help you streamline the course management and the grading process, leaving the time you need to deliver a powerful learning.

Thanks to the Assignments feature, students can quickly submit their work through the platform. Likewise, using the Gradebookprovides a clear, organized way to track grades and feedback.

Haven't set your classroom up yet? No worries! Just click below to begin and be part of the thousands of educators who are creating online learning that is more engaging and engaging.

What's the first assignment you're going to add to your class? Share your teaching thoughts with us via the comments section below!

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