Working on Your First Assignment: Using a Template

Version: Kora Permissions required: Student

When your instructor sets up an assignment with a template, Digication creates the ePortfolio structure for you. This guide shows you how to create work using a template.

Open the assignment

Open the assignment your instructor set up and click Add Work.

Assignment page with the assignment name visible and the Add Work button highlighted

If this is your first work, Digication creates it automatically from the assignment template.

Loading state as Digication creates the work automatically from the instructor's template

If you have created work before, you will get to choose between starting a new one or adding to an existing work.

Screen showing options to create a new work or add an existing work to the assignment

Add your content

Your work opens with the template structure already in place. The sections are set up for you. You just add your content.

Work in edit view with the template structure loaded, showing pre-built sections and page navigation

Modules are where your content goes. This template already has a text module set up. Select the module and start writing.

Section in edit view with a text module active and a module insertion point visible below

Click the plus sign to add a new module. You can add text, images, files, and more.

Section in edit view with a text module above and an image module below showing an uploaded image

Modules can be rearranged at any time by dragging.

Section in edit view with text and image modules arranged side by side after dragging

Share your work

You can share your work outside of the assignment: keep it private, share it with a link, or make it public.

Share settings panel showing visibility options including private, link-only, and public

Submit your work

When you are ready, click Submit.

Work editor with the Submit button visible and highlighted in the toolbar

Select the pages you want to include and submit.

Submit Work dialog with the assignment selected and pages listed for selection

Once submitted, your instructor can see it.

Confirmation that the work has been submitted to the instructor

Your work is saved in My Works on your dashboard. You can keep adding to it at any time, even after you have submitted.

Dashboard showing My Works section with the newly created work in the list