NEW Courses Release with Assignments and the Gradebook.

Aug 22, 2024

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It's back-to-school season! For the majority of countries around the world, the very first day of school is near ( if it hasn't been started already) and those who will soon be soon to be the last days of summer bliss.

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The teachers were however returning to their classrooms for months, setting up fresh seats, hanging fresh posters, and creating the most up-to date attendance records and experimenting with innovative methods of teaching they can't wait to try for their fresh students.

We at the company want teachers online to have the same enthusiasm and excitement in creating an exciting and effective online learning space for their students.

We're very excited to introduce our NEW Tools for Courses Instruments: Assignmentsand Grading Book:

  • Assignments Your students of your class are able to complete and submit numerous tasks from within the curriculum. From writing essays, websites, and creating digital portfolios as well as multimedia material, these projects will help them develop the analytical, technical, and interpersonal abilities. They'll give you an overview of the things they are able to do.
  • Grading Book The process of grade-giving has become much more efficient, allowing you to manage all student grades all in one place. This is easier for to keep track of each student's progress and makes it simpler for you to monitor performance and provide immediate feedback. Students are also able to easily check their scores, which helps them keep themselves up-to-date and focused to stay focused on their learning goals.

We designed these tools for your online classroom to be more fun, more organised and ready to deliver the best educational experience to yourself as well as your pupils.

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This robust tool was developed to help you improve the teaching experience, allowing you to concentrate upon the areas you're most passionate about: teaching and sharing your knowledge.

  • Our intuitive interface makes course creation, making it easy and enjoyable to create your own program.
  • Automatically issue certificates to students upon course completion acknowledging the value and recognition of their efforts.
  • You can customize the design and layout of your classes to match your brand perfectly with extensive possibilities for customizing and ensuring you've got a completely built-by-you learning experience.
  • You can experience seamless transactions using the variety of payment options, making registration for fees and courses hassle-free.
  • You can control who has access to your content with customizable access policy that guarantees your students have an unrivaled and safe experience for learning.
  • Learn in-depth tutorials, tips and guides as well as personalized assistance to assist you in creating and optimizing the efficiency of your training.

Our passion for excellence is what sets Courses different from other LMSs and makes us a leading competitor in the LMS market.

Yes, it takes extra effort to be successful in both areas, but ours is an easy decision because our customers need the very best!

Our dedication to constantly research and study emerging market trends, and then follow the latest methods and techniques to ensure that we can surpass or meet your needs.

This commitment to our customers that has led to the development of our most recent features: Assignmentsand the Gradebook.

These are designed to make sure that your students remain on track and your work as an online educator is as straightforward and effective as is possible.

Inspire creativity in your coursework by submitting NEW assignments

When you incorporate different kinds of work, you can not only create a more engaging educational environment for your students but you can also broaden your methods of teaching.

Find out how to broaden your education by adding various assignments

  • Essays and Written Reports: Encourage students to think more deeply by using traditional essay writing or demanding an intense detective effort for investigation reports.
  • Digital project: Spark creativity by creating web pages for students or create portfolios using digital technology. A great option for those with awe-inspiring visuals like web design, digital marketing and graphic design.
  • Media Submissions: Let students demonstrate their abilities through video and images or other media formats. It's great for classes where there is a little activity, such as presentations or training regarding the use of software.
  • Comprehensive Projects: Challenge students to combine it all including images, text, as well as media to make fully-fledged projects that demonstrate that they have a thorough understanding of the material and meet the requirements of the assignment.

Three Benefits of Adding Assignments to Your Online courses:

1. Encourages a variety of skills

The Assignments supplement broadens understanding beyond the typical writing assignments. The aim is to assist students to develop a variety of capabilities they can apply in everyday situations.

  • Written and analytical abilities Writing essays or research papers does not just involve the writing of words. Students delve into complex concepts. They develop powerful arguments, support their arguments by citing evidence and speak clearly and with precision.
  • Design and technical skills If students are involved in projects like making web pages or creating portfolios online, they're employing real-world technical abilities, ranging starting with coding and graphic design. The tasks help them learn the fundamentals of design and the user experience. This is crucial for careers that require web-based and digital marketing development.
  • Media Production Skills Making multimedia or video projects, students will learn beyond cutting and editing. Students explore storytelling structure, understand the subtleties of audiovisual storytelling and master the specifics of the production of multimedia.
  • Communication and presentation skills: Whether it's showcasing an online portfolio, making videos, or writing reports or reports using a range of formats improves students' capability to convey their ideas effectively and persuasively, skills that are essential to every job.
Assign video demonstration assignments with  Courses

     2. Improves Interaction

Each assignment is designed so that students are encouraged to dive further into the learning process and to remain engaged through the entire course.

  • Explore learning styles: With a range of activities, students can be free to experiment and find out what is best for them. If they're adept in the use of critical thinking skills, technical tasks and creative tasks, or the art of storytelling, let them experiment with diverse approaches to determine the strengths they have.
  • Stay Engaged and curious: The wide variety of tasks keep the learning experience lively and exciting. With the continuous introduction of novel formats and fresh questions, the students are constantly interested and emotionally invested in the learning.
  • Experience the learning process: Offering a mix of work assignments creates an exciting learning experience. Students are more likely to be enthusiastic about assignments when they are aware that they'll get the same task every single time which makes the process of learning exciting and fun.
Allow students to submit a mix of assignment types, from essay writing, multimedia and graphic uploads, URL submissions, and more with  Courses

     3. Configurable Settings

Each course is distinct Therefore, we've developed the Assignments Add-on to give you many options for customization. It's flexible enough to alter assignments to ensure they're aligned with your class objectives and meet the needs of your students.

  • Particular Character count. Limit the character count so that the students are within the correct range. In order to ensure that the written work is not too sloppy or being too short, thereby ensuring the standard of their writing.
  • Points for completion. Awards points when assignments are completed so that students are motivated to give their best effort. This is a fantastic way to keep them motivated and to acknowledge their effort.
  • Resubmission Opportunities. Students may submit their assignments with feedback and help discover the mistakes they made and then make changes. This can be a great way to create a positive mindset focused on growing and getting more efficient.
 Courses Assignments customization options

What can you do to create assignments for your Courses?

The first thing to do is include the assignment into your curriculum, and after that write down the instructions on the section of the assignment.

Add a new assignment in the  Courses Curriculum builder
Assignments curriculum page

When you are ready to make the assignment public, be sure you add the image you want to use Classify your material by using tags, and secure assignment access with Rules If needed.

Stay with us to learn how to grade assignments through Our NEW Gradebook add-on next! This video tutorial will provide you with the steps to complete your assignment...

Facilitate Assessment with the NEW Gradebook

As an educator As an educator, you know that teaching involves much more than delivering lectures. If your students have shown by the topic or completed homework assignments, or took quizzes then it's the right opportunity to judge their work.

In the past, assessing student progress required navigating through every quiz by hand to look at the students who completed the exam and their responses, as well as scores.

Now, every course on your website is now equipped with a Gradebook. When students complete examinations or assignments, those tasks are automatically entered into the gradebook.

Every course on your site is equipped with its own Gradebook to house completes quizzes and assignments

The Gradebook lets you review and evaluate every assignment of your student on one page. The Gradebook collects all assignments and tests in one location and makes it much easier to evaluate and track the progress of every student.

     Three Motives to Like this Gradebook Add-On    

1. Simple Grad Management

The new Gradebook feature is all about helping you in handling your grades.

It consolidates all aspects of your grade in an administrative interface. This eliminates the frustration of juggling multiple spreadsheets or sifting through pages.

All of the information is in one place it's simple to monitor what your students are achieving on their assignments and exams. This doesn't just accelerate the process of giving grades, but it also helps make it much easier and less stress-inducing.

2. Individual Classroom Tracking and Monitoring for Students and Teachers

Through the Gradebook Add-on, you have immediate, in-real-time report that highlights individual students' progress as well as general performance within the class.

This double overview will help you quickly identify trends and areas in which students could require extra support and modify your approach to teaching accordingly.

The Gradebook includes filtering in addition to search features, making it easy to tailor your experience for exams or assignments and also student progress.

You can view each student's submitted quizzes and assignments, as well as their marks along with their complete score.

Gradebook filter search

The knowledge of the basic patterns can allow you to adapt your teaching in order to accommodate the needs of each student to ensure that each student receives the appropriate level of help to succeed.

3. Transparent Feedback

The Gradebook makes it easier to give giving feedback and assigning grades. It provides a comprehensive report of scores for each assignment and quiz that means both the your students and yourself can quickly monitor progress.

This clarity helps identify areas in which students perform well, as well as areas where they might need assistance.

It is also possible to reward bonus points for outstanding works, which is a fast and efficient method of rewarding and acknowledge the hard work of.

The most useful feature for teachers is the personalised feedback section. Here, you can leave specific comments right next to the mark:

Assignments grading

This setup lets you leave specific feedback to students that students can align with their scores, increasing both your instruction impact and their learning focus.

A properly-organized gradebook system will help to keep you organized as well as enhancing your capacity to assist students in their journey to learning, making the learning process easier and more personalised.

How to set up and grade assignments using Gradebook

The time is now to put away that old-fashioned gradebook with its tiny words and crowded columns! The Gradebook add-on introduces a fresh user-friendly method of marking.

It offers a simple and easy-to-use interface that not just improves the way you look at the student's information but can also speed up the evaluation procedure. The interface offers a pleasing, comprehensive and visually pleasing overview.

Inside your Gradebook, you'll find every grade neatly arranged: each student's quizzes, assignments and tests and the marks you've given them as well as their total scores - all displayed clearly all in one place.

Plus, anything that hasn't been graded yet is clearly marked with the words "ungraded," making it easy to identify what needs to be your next focus.

Watch our complete video guide to help you create step-by-step assignments, and marking them during the class:

Conclusion

Get ready for an unforgettable school year by utilizing Courses the latest and best of the best: assignmentsand Grading Bookadd-ons.

The innovative software is designed to streamline the course management and processing of grading, freeing your time to deliver a powerful education.

Thanks to this Assignments feature, students are able to simply submit their work via the website while Gradebook Gradebookprovides a simple, well-organized way to record scores and also feedback.

Did you set up your classroom up yet? No worries! Click below to start and be part of the thousands of educators who are making online learning more dynamic and fun.

What's the initial assignment you're going to add to your class? Share your teaching ideas with us in the comment section below!

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