Tasks – Overview (Teacher)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction
• 1 Creating a task
  • 1.1 Additional options
  • 1.2 Assigning tasks to participants
• 2 Assessing tasks
  • 2.1 Assessing learning objectives

Introduction

Tasks allow teachers to track non-digital submissions such as artwork, oral presentations, handwritten essays, or face-to-face discussions.

You can also attach Microsoft or Google files for students to view as part of the task.

Tasks allow you to provide digital instructions and grading specifications, while the work itself is submitted manually and then assessed and graded in itslearning.

1 Creating a task

At its simplest, the task editor looks like this:

Enter a title, describe the task, and choose which participants should complete it (the whole class, specific groups, or individual students).

You can also choose whether the task should appear in the Planner, and which plan it will be associated with.

When you save, the task is visible to students by default.

1.1 Additional options

To control more details about the task, click More options:

From here you can:

• Set the task as visible immediately, or specify a date for it to become available.
• Attach files from a cloud service or your computer for students to view.
• Choose whether you or the student can mark the task as complete, and whether it should appear in your follow-up tasks when marked as completed.
• Enable grading with an assessment scale, and choose whether the task should be added to the assessment record.
• Assign learning objectives to the task, choose whether it should appear in the objective report, and choose whether mastery of the learning objective should be assessed (if activated).

1.2 Assigning tasks to participants

A teacher can assign tasks to all course participants, to individual students, or to groups of students.

The default is All course participants. Click Change to select other options.

2 Assessing tasks

When the task has been set up and students have completed the work, you can assess it based on the settings you configured when creating the task. In this example, the student has marked the task as done:

If you chose to grade the task, the student cannot mark it as done themselves. The grading page looks like this:

2.1 Assessing learning objectives

Depending on how you configured the assessment of learning objectives, the options range from a simple registration of mastery to predefined goals or rubrics with weighting.

The assessment with rubrics looks like this:

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Have more questions? Please start with asking your school administrator.

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