The Administer Assignments page allows you to enter course assignments for your active courses, including extra credit assignments. You can also copy the assignments to other courses.
Notes:
Categories must be established for the course before you can enter assignments.
For percentage-based weighting, assignments cannot be added unless category weights are set up and total 100. Otherwise, an error message is displayed.
For each assignment you create, you must specify an assignment category and enter an assignment description and the total number of possible points for the assignment. You can also enter the assignment date and due date, which are helpful when sorting grades on the Assignment Grades page.
You can only enter assignments for active courses.
Assignment names must be unique within each category.
You cannot make changes to assignments once the cycle is closed.
From the Settings menu, select Administer Assignments.
The Administer Assignments page is displayed allowing you to enter course assignments for a specified semester, cycle, and course section.
In the Semester
field, click 
to select the semester for which you want to enter assignments.
In the Cycle
field, click to select the cycle for which you want to enter assignments.
In the Course
Section field, click to select the course section for which you
want to enter assignments.
All assignments that have previously been entered for the semester/cycle/course section are displayed. If no assignments have been entered, a blank row is displayed allowing you to add an assignment.
To add a new assignment if a blank row is not available, click Add New Assignment. You can also press Tab from the last field on the previous row. A new row is displayed at the bottom of the assignments list.
In the Assignment Name field, type a name for the assignment (e.g., Pop Quiz 1). The field can be up to 50 characters.
Note: It is helpful to keep the assignment name as brief as possible; however, the name should be descriptive enough to distinguish it from other assignments. Longer assignment names require more space on the Assignment Grades page, which may result in a more cumbersome page.
Assignment names can be changed at any time, as needed.
You cannot add duplicate assignment names within a category. If you attempt to enter an assignment name that already exists for the category, a message is displayed indicating that there is an assignment with the same name.
In the Category
field, click to select a category for the assignment.
The categories are established on the Administer Categories page.
If a color has been assigned to the category on the Administer Categories page, the drop down displays the assigned color.
In the Date
Assigned field, type the date the assignment is due, or click 
to open the calendar and select a valid date. To close the calendar, you
must click a valid date on the calendar or click the calendar icon.
In the Date
Due field, type the date the assignment is due, or click
to open the calendar and select a valid date. To close the calendar, you
must click a valid date on the calendar or click the calendar icon.
In the Total Points field, type the total number of possible points for the assignment. The Total Points field cannot be zero, unless it is an extra credit assignment. This field is set to 100 by default.
Warning: If all assignments in a category do not have the same total points value, then the calculations for dropping a specified number of assignments for the category (as indicated in the # Drop field on the Administer Categories page) may result in an average that is different than expected. If the total points value varies, the grade with the lowest number of points may not necessarily be the lowest grade.
In the Extra Credit field, indicate if the assignment is an extra credit assignment. If the assignment is for extra credit, the Total Points field must be set to zero.
Extra credit assignments add points to the average for the category selected.
If a student has no grade or a zero for the extra credit assignment, it does not count against him when his average is calculated.
See the Extra Credit section on the Calculate Averages page for an explanation of calculating averages with extra credit for each weighting type.
In the Notes
field, click 
to add or update optional notes for the assignment. If entered,
these notes are viewable in the parent access Web site, txConnect.
Add or update the
note in the Note dialog box, and then click Ok.
The Note dialog box closes, and the note icon is yellow 
to indicate that a note was entered.
To clear the note
for the assignment, click Clear.
The Note dialog box closes, and the note icon is gray to indicate that there are no notes entered.
To modify data for an assignment, type over the existing data with the new information.
To delete an assignment,
click 
under Delete for that assignment
in the Delete column.
Note:
You cannot delete
an assignment if grades have been posted for the assignment. The
is not displayed for those assignments.
If you delete grades on the Assignment Grades page in order to delete an assignment, you must be sure to delete the grade for any withdrawn student.
Before you leave the page, you must save your changes.
In the PIN field, type your four-digit PIN. The field is disabled for inquiry-only users.
Click Save.
If your changes were saved successfully, the page reloads, and a message is displayed indicating that the assignments were saved successfully.
If you typed your PIN incorrectly, the system notifies you that you provided an invalid PIN. You must provide the correct PIN to continue.
If the cycle is closed, you cannot save any changes. The button is disabled; the button says Cycle Closed. If you attempt to make changes, a warning message notifies you that the changes will not be saved.
If you change any data on the page, and then attempt to leave the page without saving the changes, a warning message is displayed. This includes attempting to change the Semester, Cycle, or Course Section fields before you save changes.
Click Continue to leave this page without saving your changes.
Click Cancel to return to the page and save your changes.
Once you have saved assignments for a course, you can copy the assignments to another course section.
Use the Semester, Cycle, and Course Section fields to select the course section from which you want to copy assignments.
Click Copy assignments to another course section/cycle. The Copy Assignments page is displayed. Review the Help for the Copy Assignments page for additional instructions on copying assignments.