Create, edit, or delete assignments

• To create an assignment, you can choose to either select an existing course or create a new one.

Create assignment

1. Click "Create new assignment" for a new course (1).

2. If you have already created at least one assignment, click "Create assignment" (2).

If you wish to import previously created assignments to your courses, please see the following articles for more information: 

For importing assignments into a single course, please see "Import assignments," and for importing assignments into multiple courses, see "Kora Course admin tool."

Enter assignment information

3. Select a background (3) or upload your own (4).
4. Enter an assignment name and description.
5. Select an assignment type (5) or create your own (6).

6. Set whether the assignment will be required, optional, or Not Accepted / Not Applicable (7).

Configure additional instructions (optional)

7. Choose whether to create new work or continue with existing work with the following options.
   • No new prompt(s) or templates are needed (8).
   • Use prompt(s) or template (9).

Use prompt

8. Select “Use prompt” (10) to provide up to ten short prompts.
9. Drag handles (11) up or down to reorder prompts.
10. Add instructions (12).
11. Select a response type for each prompt (13).
12. Add additional prompts, if desired (14).

• When completing the assignment, the assignment name will become the page name (15), the assignment description will become instructions (16), and prompts will become modules on the page (17).

Use template

13. Select “Use template” (18).

Create from scratch

14. Click “Create from scratch” (19).

Based on existing template

15. Click “Based on existing template” (20).

16. Select a template (21) and click “Use this template” (22).
17. Click “Menu” (23) and Edit (24) the template as desired for the assignment.

• For more information about creating a template for an assignment, please see “Create a template for an assignment.”

Availability

18. Set whether the assignment will have a due date (25).
19. If so, set the due date and time (26).
20. Set the visibility (27).

21. Set resubmission (28) and late submission (29) settings.

Grade

22. Set whether the assignment will be added to the grade book (30).
    1. Click “Display grade as” (31) to set the display as numerical, letter, or a custom format created in “Grade settings.”
    2. Set Grade settings (32).
       • For more information about grade settings, please see “Grade settings.”
    3. Enter the maximum points (33).
    4. Set whether the assignment grade will be included in the course final grade calculation (34).
       1. Set absolute weight (35).

5. Set whether students will be able to see their grades (36).

Assessment

Outcomes and rubrics

23. Add outcomes (37).

• In “Select Outcomes”, you can add and remove existing outcomes from the assignment (38).
• You can also create new outcomes.
  • For more information about adding, removing, and creating outcomes, please see the articles in the guide’s “Outcomes, rubrics, and outcome assessment” section.

24. Click "Done" (39).

Faculty outcome assessment

25. Set who will be able to view faculty outcome assessments (40).

Peer assessment and feedback

26. Set whether students will have the option to share their work with peers at submission (41).

1. Set whether students will be able to use outcomes to assess peers’ work (42).
2. Set whether students assessing peers’ work will be able to create additional outcomes (43).

Create assignment

3. Click “Create” (44).

Edit assignment

1. Click the assignment in the assignments list (1).
2. Click “Assignment actions” (2).
3. Click “Edit” (3).

4. Make edits, then save the assignment.

Delete assignment

1. Click the assignment in the assignments list (1).
2. Click “Assignment actions” (2).
3. Click “Delete” (3).

4. Confirm the deletion (4).

To learn more about how to import assignments into different LMSs, please see "LMS Integration Overview" section of our helpdesk.