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Assignment labels

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Assignment labels can be assigned to assignments in a course. It is a visual label which can be used to show the status of an assignment and cooperate with colleagues. Assignment labels are sorted in alphabetical order. Once assignment labels have been created by administrators, they can be used by all employees of your school for any type of assignment in their course. The use of these labels is not mandatory for employees.

Please note that assignment labels can be different from question bank assignment labels. Question bank labels are not synchronised when an assignment is planned into a course. They are two separate types of labels.

Assignment labels can also be used in combination with assignment protection rules. In case that a assignment label has one or more protection rules, this is indicated with a lock-icon. When you hover over the label, a tooltip appears listing the applied protection rules. This makes it easier to recognise restricted assignments and overview which changes are disabled.

Create and manage assignment labels

Create assignment labels

To add assignment labels, follow the steps below.

  1. Click the domainSchool name in the menu on the left.
  2. Click Settings in the menu at the top.
  3. Click Assignment labels in the menu on the left. 
  4. Click New label and a dialog will open.
  5. Fill in the name and choose the colour of the label.
  6. Optionally, mark the assignment label as default. Whenever an assignment is created, the assignment will automatically have this default label.
  7. Optionally, select assignment protection rules linked to the label. 
  8. Click Create.

Edit assignment labels

To edit assignment labels, follow the steps below.

  1. Navigate to the assignment labels. 
  2. Click on the more_vert icon.
  3. Click on Edit.
  4. Make the necessary edits. 
  5. Click on Update. 

Delete assignment labels

To delete assignment labels, follow the steps below.

  1. Navigate to the assignment labels. 
  2. Click on the more_vert icon.
  3. Click on Delete.
  4. Click on Confirm. 

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Assignment protection rules

The assignment protection rules provide the possibility to disable specific editing actions for an assignment. After adding assignment labels to your school, you can add assignment protection rules to these labels. Assignment protection rules are only applicable to assignments that have labels. Therefore, assignment protection rules can only be used in assignments in your course and not in your question bank.

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In the assignment labels menu, you can select one or more rules that are applicable to the assignments connected to that assignment label. You can use this feature to prevent assignments to be edited or partially edited in a particular stage of the development of the assignment. It can also be used to archive old assignments, so they cannot be edited any longer.

Assignment protection rules can be added to:

  • Disable exercise and question changes
    This option prevents users to make changes to exercises and questions in an assignment. Users cannot add new exercises, questions and descriptions, or edit existing ones.

  • Disable grading scheme changes
    This option prevents users from modifying the grading scheme in an assignment. Users cannot edit the grading type, the maximum points, the model answer, the question options, the weight (only applicable to rubric with levels), and the criteria (only applicable to points per criterion). This also includes changes to the contribution of a question.

  • Disable objective changes
    This option prevents users to make changes to learning objectives in an assignment. Users cannot link learning objectives to an exercise, or unlink them from an exercise.

  • Disable review changes
    This option prevents users to make changes when reviewing assignments. This includes (un)reviewed results, creating and answering flags, and creating and answering annotations. The contribution of the questions can also not be adjusted in the Insights tab.

  • Disable mark calculation changes
    This option prevents users to make changes to the mark calculation formula. The page Mark calculation in the settings of the assignment is then locked and cannot be adjusted.

  • Disable result changes
    This option prevents users to make changes to the Results tab of the assignment. Results cannot be approved, (un)archived, removed, or put in groups. Additionally, once results are removed, they cannot be restored if this option is enabled. It is still possible to publish and export results.
    Please note that disabling result changes will also prevent students from taking the assignment, as it blocks them from answering questions.

  • Disable discussion changes
    This option prevents users to make changes to the discussions of the assignment. Open and closed discussions cannot be answered or reopened by employees. Be aware that students can still start new discussions if the publication window allows this, but they cannot be responded to by staff.

  • Disable anonymising results
    This option is only visible if your school uses the feature Results retention period [Add-on]. This option prevents that results are anonymised after the set period.

To add an assignment protection rule to an assignment label, follow the steps below.

  1. Navigate to the assignment labels in the school settings.
  2. Click on the more_vert icon next to the label you want to add the protection rule(s) to.
  3. Check the box of the protection rule(s) you want to apply.
  4. Click Update. 

After editing, you can see how many protection rules were selected for an assignment label. A lock icon will also appear on the assignment label chip. Hovering over the label will display the active protection rules. 

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