Online Assignments: What You Need to Know
In your class, you'll be asked to complete different kinds of assignments and take quizzes. For example, you may be asked to:
- Take a quiz or test. Whether it's called an assignment, a quiz, or a test, you follow the same steps.
- Submit (attach) a file you've saved to your computer directly to your teacher.
- Write your ideas on a discussion board, wiki, or blog for your fellow students (and your teacher) to see.
Quiz-Type Assignments
Some assignments, quizzes and tests will have a bunch of questions that you need to answer. The types of possible questions will include multiple choice, matching, true/false, short answer, and essay questions.
Auto-graded questions will be automatically graded by the computer and will give you a score immediately. Questions that are automatically graded will be multiple choice, matching or true/false.
Written Responses will have to be graded by your teacher. If the question is a short answer or essay question, you will see a content editor. The content editor has formatting tools similar to word processing program like Microsoft Word or a Google Doc. We will learn to use the content editor later in this lesson.
Mrs. H is out sick today, but her friend, Emily, is here to help you out with how to take and submit these types of assignments. Emily, take it away!
