Create Individual Student Assignment with One Assessment

In classes that use the Custom Setup 2 grading scale option for standards-based report cards, you can create an individual assignment that is unique to a student on the Progress By Student screen. You can create an assignment for an assessment that is already associated with existing assignments or for an assessment that is not yet associated with any assignments. If you want to create an individual student assignment with more than one assessment associated with it, see “Create an Individual Student Assignment with More than One Assessment.”

1.On the Teacher Home Page or Class Dashboard, click Progress By Student.

2.If you entered the Progress By Student screen from the Teacher Home Page, in the Class drop-down list, select the class you want to view. If you entered from the Class Dashboard, in the Class drop-down list, that class displays.

3.In the Period drop-down list, the current quarter displays by default. You may select a different grading period, if desired.

4.In the Student drop-down list, select the appropriate student for whom you want to enter an assignment.

5.In the Assessment drop-down list, select the assessment for which you want to enter an assignment.

Note: If the assessment you want to associate with the new assignment you are creating does not display on the screen, click Add a new student assignment for any report card assessment at the bottom of the screen. On the Add an Assignment window, you can select the assessment with which to associate the new assignment and proceed with step 7.

6.Below the appropriate assessment, click Add a new student Assignment.

On the Add an Assignment window, at the top of the window, the class, student, and assessment display.

7.In the Due Date field, select or enter the date that the assignment is due. Today's date is the default.

8.In the Description field, enter the name of the assignment.

9.In the Assignment Type drop-down list, select the appropriate type of assignment. The first assignment type in the list is the default option.

Note: Only the assignment types associated with the class are available.

10.Click Create Assignment.

11.You can perform any of the following optional steps while creating an assignment:

•If this is a point assignment, in the Points Possible field, enter the value of the assignment; if this is a non-point assignment, the Points Possible field is disabled.

Note: Assignments associated with assessments that use the Power Law calculation method must have the same point value and a weight of 1.

•To change the weight of the assignment, in the Weight field, enter a number other than 1.

•To post the assignment description and due date to ParentAccess and the Frontline ProgressBook Parent & Student app, toggle on the Post as homework switch.

•If this is a point assignment, in the Mark field, enter a mark for the assignment; if this is a non-point assignment, the Mark field is disabled.

•In the Comments text box, enter a comment regarding this assignment

•Click the Missing toggle to indicate that the assignment is missing.

•Click the Exclude toggle to exclude the assignment from the student’s average.

•Click the Post mark to web toggle to post the marks for the assignment to ParentAccess and the Frontline ProgressBook Parent & Student app

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Note: To delete an assignment, in the Assessment drop-down list, select the appropriate assessment with which the assignment is associated, and then click X in the Delete column for the assignment you want to delete. The assignment no longer displays on the screen and is no longer included in the grade calculation for the assessment with which it was associated.