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Completing an Assignment: A Learner's Guide

Find your assignments, upload your work, submit more than one attempt, and see your instructor's feedback.

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Assignment, assignments tab, submit assignment, upload document, submission, attempts, feedback, instructor feedback, learner dashboard, resubmit

Overview

An assignment is a module where you do a piece of work outside the platform — write a document, complete a worksheet, record something — and then upload it for review. Someone at your organization reviews what you submit and gives you feedback. An assignment is complete when that review process finishes, not simply when you upload a file.

Finding your assignments

Your assignments appear in two places:

  • In the course they belong to, alongside the other modules, on the course page.
  • In the Assignments tab on your dashboard, which gathers all your assignments across every course in one list.

The Assignments tab only appears once you have access to at least one assignment. If you cannot see it, you have not been given one yet.

The two sections of the Assignments tab

New Feedback appears only when there is feedback waiting for you to act on. It lists assignments where an instructor has given feedback and you have not yet responded, and marks those assignment cards with a notification icon. Start here — this is the work that is waiting on you.

All Assignments lists everything available to you: new submissions, completed submissions and resubmissions. It shows eight assignments per page, with pagination for the rest.

Submitting your work

  1. Open the assignment from your course page or from the Assignments tab.
  2. Read the instructions your organization has provided for the assignment.
  3. Upload your document.
  4. Submit it.

Submitting more than once

Assignments support multiple attempts. If your first submission is returned for revision, or if your organization allows several attempts, you can upload again. Each attempt is kept and shown separately, so your reviewer can see the history rather than only the latest version.

Checking your status and feedback

The status shown against an assignment tells you where it is in the process — for example not yet started, submitted and awaiting review, or complete.

When your reviewer has finished, their feedback appears with the assignment.

Tips

  • Use a clear, short file name. Very long file names were previously displayed awkwardly; this was corrected in release 2.12.1, but a short name is still easier for your reviewer to work with.
  • If the assignment has a due date, it is shown with the assignment and you will receive due soon and past due notifications in the same way as for other content. See How do I know when a course or module is due?
  • If your upload fails, try a smaller file or a different browser before contacting your administrator. See Rockstar Learning Platform - Supported Browsers.