The hand-in assignment

To create a hand-in assignment, follow the steps below.

1. Navigate to your course or use the search bar.
2. Click on New assignment. 
3. Fill in the name of your assignment.
4. Select Hand-in assignment and click Create.

Select the assignment type 'Hand-in assignment' in the screen below for individual assignments. For group assignments, select the assignment type 'Hand-in assignment for groups'. When creating a hand-in assignment for groups, the groups in which the students can hand in their assignments should be added on course level. More information on how to create groups can be found here. 

After creating a hand-in assignment, a requirement to start the hand-in assignment can also be added. More information on adding requirements can be found here.

In the accessibility settings of the hand-in assignment, you can set how many times participants can attempt the test.

error_outline With hand-in assignments for groups, it is not possible for a student to be in multiple groups with an active timeslot. This means that it is not possible for a student to change groups in a course for group assignments. As a workaround, we recommend to create a new course for when students need to be apart of more than one group for group assignments.

As with all assignment types, the basis of a hand-in assignment is exercises that contain questions. The difference is that with this assignment type, these exercises and questions will not be visible to students when they submit their assignment. Exercises and questions are added for instructors and reviewers to aid in grading. This is why the tab 'Exercises' is not displayed and why the questions are created in the Grading scheme tab.

When creating a hand-in assignment, you can add a description in the assignment settings to explain to the students what files need to be handed in. You also have the option to add attachments. For example, the attachment could be an answer form to be filled out by the students as part of the assignment. Students can download the form, fill it in and upload it back to Ans.

To create an exercise, follow the steps below.

1. Navigate to your assignment.
2. Click New exercise.
3. Fill in the name of the exercise and click Save.

After adding an exercise, you will see the following screen:

To add questions to your exercise, click New question. For hand-in assignments, the evaluation form is the only question type that is supported. When clicking on 'New question', the evaluation form is automatically added without the need to select the question type.

The evaluation form is the question type that is used to review students by awarding the students points and giving them feedback on their hand-in assignment. After a new question is added, you can select the grading type, fill in the maximum number of points, formulate the question and optionally, a model answer.

Add a grading scheme
To add a grading scheme to a hand-in assignment, follow the same steps here.

When creating the grading scheme, click the more_vert icon for more grading options. The grading options are:

• Bonus
  This marks the question as a bonus question, which means the number of points awarded with this question will be counted until the maximum amount of points achievable for this assignment is reached. The points of the bonus question are not included in the maximum amount of points that can be achieved for the assignment. If the student answers the question incorrectly, this will not be detracted from the number of points and the mark.
  
  
• Partial scoring
  Students will receive points when their answer is partly correct. For example, if the total number of points they can receive for a question is 2 and their answer is 50% correct, they will still receive 1 point. Without this option, they can only receive 0 or the maximum number of points.
  
  
• Start with zero points (For the points-per-criteria and rubrics grading type only)
  If this option is enabled the marking of this question will always start at zero points and the points will be added up when selecting the criteria. When this option is disabled, the marking will start with the maximum amount of points that can be awarded for this question and selecting the criteria will be subtracted from this maximum. This means that the criteria should be added as minus points of the total amount. The reviewer can then select the criteria if the student did not meet this with their answer, so it can be detracted from the total amount of points.
  
  
• Limit minimum to zero points (For the points-per-criteria grading type only)
  With this option enabled, it is not possible to go below zero points when selecting the different criteria. It is still possible to manually adjust the number of points to go below zero with the adjustment option during the reviewing.
  
  
• Limit maximum to total points (For the points-per-criteria grading type only)
  In the grading settings it is possible to set the maximum amount of points achievable with the question, separate from the points per criteria. When this number deviates from the maximum amount achievable by adding up the criteria points, this option will cap the maximum amount of points to this manually set number.

A few differences can be noticed between the hand-in assignment and other assignment types:

• The tabs 'Grading scheme' and 'Objectives' are the only tabs visible. In this assignment type, an exercise, as well as the model answer, are created in the tab 'Grading scheme'. It is also not possible to add flow and exercise groups.
• Within an exercise, it is only possible to add questions. No descriptions can be added. Descriptions are not relevant for this assignment type, because the students will only be able to upload and submit their files and will not be able to see the questions and the descriptions.
• The preview of the assignment will not be generated, therefore the screen on the right will remain black.

Within your hand-in assignment, you will see the tab play_circle_outline Taking. From here, you can monitor the progress of participants. The taking page overview gives an insight into three stages of the hand-in assignment:

• Not started yet
  In the 'Not started yet' section, you can see all of the participants that have not yet uploaded a file. If you are missing any participants that should have access to the hand-in assignment, you can click on Manage participants to add them to the course. In cases where a participant is not able to sign in to Ans, you can generate a one-time password token that they can use once in order to submit their hand-in assignment. In the 'Not started yet' section, click the more_vert icon. Click Generate one-time password token and then click Generate. The one-time password will be displayed.
  
  
• Busy
  In the 'Busy' section you can see the participants that have uploaded a file, but not yet submitted it. If you click on the more_vert icon next to the participant, you have the option to move them to 'Submitted'. Be aware that using this option will block the participant from editing or resubmitting their submission. If a participant is still in the 'Busy' column when the timeslot elapses, Ans will automatically submit their uploaded file.
  
  
• Submitted
  In the 'Submitted' section you can see the participants that have submitted their uploaded file. Participants will also be moved to 'Submitted' once the timeslot of the test has expired. If you click on the more_vert icon next to the participant, you have the option to change the additional time or move the participant back to busy.
  
  

After the students have uploaded and submitted their hand-in assignment, you can start reviewing. To distribute the workload, reviewing can be can divided between instructors and reviewers. More information on how to assign reviewers to a hand-in assignment can be found here.

If a preview of the submitted assignment is available, the reviewer sees the following screen:

The screen is similar to reviewing a digital test or written assignment. A difference is the menu on the left in the preview of the assignment. The icons in the menu mean the following:

• The mouse icon is to scroll through the file and highlight parts, without creating an annotation.
• The mode_edit icon can be used as a pencil to draw lines or a check mark. The pencil can be used in different colors.
• The insert_comment icon can be used to create an annotation using a sticker. Once placed in the file, the annotations menu automatically opens to write the comment.
• The highlight icon can also be used to create an annotation by highlighting a part of the text in the submitted assignment. The annotations menu will automatically open to write the comment.

A few things to keep in mind when reviewing a hand-in assignment:

• In a hand-in assignment, students can upload one or more files. After uploading, the students will also need to submit their uploaded files before the reviewer can start reviewing.
• Students can upload, delete and submit their files until the timeslot has ended. Once a student has clicked submit on their uploaded files, they are no longer able to resubmit. In cases were they are allowed to resubmit their uploaded files, they will need to be moved back to 'Busy' at the taking page overview. This works the same for hand-in assignments for groups. Students from the same group can see what other members of the group have uploaded and can edit, delete and submit the files for the entire group.

 

Other options in a hand-in assignment

The hand-in assignment also has other options similar to the other assignment types. For example, you can set the mark calculation or publish the results.