Before creating a new assignment you should decide if you want to use an existing assignment as a template. If you wish to create an assignment based on one that is already included in your assignment list, select Copy & Edit from the Actions menu next to that assignment and click Go. For more information, see Copy and Edit Assignment.
To create a new assignment, click the Create New Assignment button in the Assignments page. The Describe Assignment tab appears.
In the Describe Assignment tab, complete the fields to name and describe the assignment.
The following is a list and description of each item that should be selected or filled in:
Assignment Type - There are three types of assignments to choose from: Questions/Exercises, Readings/Resources and Survey (for more information see Assignment Types). Select one of them for your assignment. WileyPLUS does not support combining Assignment Types into a single assignment.
Assignment ID - This field is used to designate a shortened version of the assignment name. This is an important field as it is used in the column heading for this assignment in the Gradebook. We suggest you use a short, easy to remember format e.g., "W1-A1" (Week 1, Assignment 1)
Assignment Name - Try to use a name that is meaningful to you and your students.
Description / Instructions - This optional text field is available for you to provide your students with more information or instructions on how to complete the assignment. When your students open an assignment, it appears on the first page. You can also use this field for notes to yourself or other instructors. If you choose to use it for instructor use, uncheck the Display to Students option.
Source - This confirms who created this assignment.
Date of Creation - This field confirms when the assignment was first created.
Sharing - You can choose whether or not to share this assignment with other instructors in your Master Course. Sharing means that this assignment appears in their assignment list and they can assign it if they choose. You can always see all of the assignments you create regardless of your sharing preferences and which class section you are working in.
When you complete the information fields in Describe Assignment, click Next and the Select Resources tab appears.
To add questions to your assignment make your selections from the menus of Chapter, Level and Source and click Go. Questions from the question bank that meet the criteria you selected appear in the list below.
To view a question from the list of available questions, either hover your pointer on the name of the question to view it in a pop-up window, or click on the name of the question to open it in a new window. These views of the question will show you the format in which it will be presented to students. It includes the problem statement, the answer and any question assistance that is available. You will have a chance to decide later in the process when and which, if any, question assistance is made available to your students.
Select the check boxes next to those questions that you wish to include in your assignment. If you want to select more questions, click Save and Find More Questions.
If you wish to assign questions that are associated with a study objective, select a study objective from the drop-down menu and click Go (note that some WileyPLUS titles do not include Study Objectives, in which case this option will not be available.)
When you finish your selections, click Next and the Organize and Score Questions tab appears.
In the Organize and Score Questions tab, you may change the order that the questions you have chosen appear in the assignment list and change the score for each question.
To change the order of the questions, click the drop-down box under the Order column and select the place in order that you’d like the question to appear. To delete a question from the assignment, click Remove under the Actions column.
By default all questions are allocated one point for a correct answer. You can increase the score assigned to one or all of the questions. In questions where more than one answer is required, partial credit is awarded proportionately unless otherwise indicated. e.g., if you assign a question with two parts to be worth 5 points, each part will be worth 2.5 points.
You may require the students in your class section to show work for their assigned questions, by selecting the check boxes in the Require Show Work column.
When you are finished determining the score for each question and ordering them, click Next. The Set Question Policies tab displays.
The Set Question Policies tab allows you to set the question policies and question assistance available for this assignment.
You may decide to deduct a percentage of your students' score when they attempt to answer a question more than once, or if they access Question Assistance.
Select the check box next to Apply Point Potential Policy. The Question Attempts section appears in the Set Question Policy tab. Question Attempts allows you to determine what percentage of their score is deducted for each attempt to answer the question correctly.
Also, enabling Point Potential Policy allows you to deduct a percentage of the students' score based on the Question Assistance they use to answer the question correctly. (Question Assistance will appear only in questions for which it is available).
If you choose to disable Immediate Feedback, student answers will be recorded in the instructor Gradebook but students will not be informed if their answers were correct/incorrect, or of their overall score, until after the Assignment due date is reached. Disabling immediate feedback requires that only one attempt per question be allowed in the Assignment.
Question Attempts allows you to set the number of attempts that a student has to answer each question correctly. In multipart questions, correct answers remain locked on subsequent attempts unless the values in the problem statement are set to change algorithmically.
Select a radio button for the number of attempts you wish to allow for the assignment.
In the Attempt Policy drop-downs, select the attempt after which to the policy, and the percentage to be deducted.
This option is only available in WileyPLUS titles that contain algorithmic questions. It allows you to change the numeric values within an algorithmic question after each attempt by a student.
Select the appropriate radio button to use the same values for all attempts but different for each student, new values for all attempts and every student, static values, wherein the values stay the same for every attempt and every student.
Note: in a multipart question, if the student does not get the question entirely correct on their first attempt, then on their second attempt, the numeric values in the problem statement change and the student has to answer all parts of the question, even those that were correct on the previous attempt.
Question Assistance allows you to make assistance available to students after incorrect attempts to answer a question. The types of question assistance are listed below.
In the Question Assistance section, select when the assistance will become available from the drop-down menu next to each assistance type.
If the Apply Point Potential check box is selected above, a second set of drop-down menus appear next to each assistance type. Select a point potential to be applied to a correct answer, after students use Question Assistance.
When your students open an assignment that has point potential policy enabled, they can see what question assistance is available to them and the percentage of the total score they can receive if they access question assistance and answer the question correctly. When your students are working on their assignment and they click on question assistance, they will receive the following message:
Earn Maximum Points available only if you answer this question correctly without Question Assistance.
Students then have the option to continue with the deduction or to cancel and exit out of the question assistance and continue with the potential to earn the maximum amount of points for that question..
Note: Question Assistance appears only in assignments in which there is at least one question for which the assistance is available.
The following describes the Question Assistance that may be available in WileyPLUS assignments:
Show Hints - Hints may be text, an animation/simulation, video or other resources that provide the student with some help to answer the question.
Show Links - These are e-book text links that open to the chapter and section of the e-book that describes the material the question is assessing. There may be multiple text links.
Show Solution - This is the fully worked out solution for the problem. If this is an algorithmic question, a similar problem from the text will show how to work out the solution.
Show GO Tutorials - These Guided Online (GO) tutorials step your students through how to solve the question they answered incorrectly. The steps may contain guidance on the order students should use to solve a problems (e.g., all of the steps required to answer a calculus question), similar problems, readings, videos, animations, etc. Once the students have finished the GO Tutorial, they are returned to the original problem and are required to answer it to get a score for the question.
Set GO Tutorials to be available to your students after one attempt and you set the assignment to change values. The reason to set the assignment to change values is that once students work through the GO Tutorial, they are returned to the original problem and it is likely they have the answer to it.
This option is available only in WileyPLUS language titles, and allows you to set how you would like WileyPLUS to grade answers that contain accents. There are 3 grading options:
Accents must match exactly - If the correct answer contains an accent, the student must enter the accent to gain credit for their answer. (i.e. must enter é instead of e)
Partial Credit (50%) - If the student enters the accent they will receive full credit, if not they will only receive half credit for their answer.
Don't match accents - Students will not need to enter accents to receive full credit for their answers.
Question Controls allows you to set general levels for Tolerance and Significant Digits for numeric questions in an assignment. This control is available only if you have selected questions that allow you to set tolerance and/or significant digits.
Setting Tolerance - You can assign a tolerance percent for the entire assignment for students' answers to be +/- the correct answer and still be graded as correct. Some questions may contain their own tolerance, and enabling it would eliminate the manual setting under Question Controls.
Significant Digits - If questions are set to be answered to a specific number of Significant Digits, the system can provide some help to the student. You can set this policy by selecting from No Help, Passive Help, or Active Help. If you select No Help, students must answer the question correctly with the right number of significant digits. If you select Passive Help, the system pops-up a window to remind students that significant digits are important in their answer. If you select Active Help, the system accepts the correct answer even if it contains an incorrect number of significant digits.
When you have completed the Set Question Policies tab, click Next, and the Confirmation tab appears.
The Confirmation tab shows you all of the details of the assignment you created in the previous four tabs.
Preview the questions in the assignment by clicking on the question name in the list at the bottom of the screen. If you want to change anything, you can navigate back through the tabs to make the necessary changes.
If all of the assignment details are correct, click Assign to Class Sections and Assign to Class Sections page appears.
In the Assign to Class Section page, select a check box for class sections to which you wish to assign the assignment.
Select a start and due date for the assignment. Note: Times in Start and Due dates are based on the local time as defined in the master course properties. Contact your Blackboard administrator if the local time is wrong.
All assignments have start dates; by default, the start date is roughly the date and time at which you are assigning the assignment, which would make it immediately available to students once it is assigned to their class section. If you designate a start date that is in the future, then the assignment will not be accessible to students until that date and time. At your discretion, assignments may or may not have a due date. You also have the ability to decide whether students can access assignments after the due date.
Determine the access after due date policy for your assignment, and select the appropriate radio button.
If you wish to allow partial credit for assignments that are submitted late, select the check box next to 'For Late Submissions, Reduce Score by.' The drop-down menu is enabled. Select a percentage value by which to reduce the score for a late submission.
Select the appropriate radio button to make the assignment graded or ungraded.
Graded assignments are composed of questions that are typically automatically graded by the WileyPLUS application. The exceptions are question types that require manual grading by the instructor: these include essay style questions, General Ledger questions, and survey questions. Scores are maintained in both Instructor and Student gradebooks.
Ungraded assignments are graded for progress only. Progress is assessed by students accessing the ungraded assignment, and it is recorded in the gradebook as a percentage of the material accessed. For example, if two sections of the online text are assigned as a Reading assignment and the student only accesses one of them, progress would be reported as 50% in the gradebook.
Generic Question titles allow you to hide the question titles from students' view.
Allows student's to print a blank copy of the assignment.
Select the check box in the Timed Assignment section, and select from the drop-down menu to determine the amount of time students have to complete the assignment.
Click Submit to assign the assignment. You are returned to the WileyPLUS Assignments page. Note that the assignment you just created appears in the list, and in the Status column, it shows 'Assigned" (assignments must be assigned to properly sync with Blackboard and appear in the Gradebook). Click Return to Blackboard at the top of the page, and the Blackboard Add WileyPLUS Assignments page appears.
In the Add WileyPLUS Assignments page, select the check boxes for the assignments you want to add. Assignments that have already been added to the course appear with a check mark in the Deployed to Blackboard column
Click Submit. The assignment(s) you selected appear in the Content page.