The hand-in assignment

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

1. Click the domain School name in the menu on the left.
2. Click on label_importantCourses in the menu at the top.
3. Click on your course or use the search bar. 
4. Click on New assignment. 
5. Fill in the name of your assignment.
6. 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. 

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 only difference is that with this assignment type, these exercises and questions will not be visible to students when they hand in their assignment. The exercises and questions are added for the reviewers to base their feedback on and award their points to. This also explains why the tab 'Exercises' does not show and why the questions are created in the tab 'Grading scheme'.
Follow the steps below to create an exercise.

1. Click the domain School name in the menu on the left.
2. Click on label_importantCourses in the menu at the top.
3. Click on your course or use the search bar. 
4. Click on your assignment or use the search bar.
5. Click New exercise.
6. Fill in the name of the exercise and click Save.

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

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.

If you have been using other assignment types before, such as the digital test, a few differences can be noticed:

• The tabs 'Grading scheme' and 'Objectives' are the only tabs showing. 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 is black.

Now, it is possible to add questions to the exercise by clicking 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 you having 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. 

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.

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.