Create an assignment

Assignments offer interactive opportunities for students to demonstrate their understanding of your lessons.

Assignments are graded assessments that can be used for student practice or count towards student Gradebooks.

NOTE: Möbius assignments are any type of online assessment (Example — exams, homework assignments, placements tests, quizzes, unit tests, etc.).

The Assignment Editor is used to generate assignments and has 3 components:

• The Choose Name tab to name your new assignment.
• The Select Questions tab to define your assignment questions.
• The Properties tab to define the assignment properties.

Assignment Editor's Choose Name tab

Creating a new assignment begins with the Choose Name tab of the Assignment Editor.

IMPORTANT: If you do not interact with Möbius for 60 minutes, you will be automatically logged out of your session and your progress is not auto-saved. If you plan to stop interacting with the Assignment Editor for more than a few minutes, it's strongly recommended that you save your work.

To create a new assignment:

1. Click Content Repository on the Class Homepage.

1. Click Create New on the main Content Repository menu.

1. Hover your cursor over Assignment on the Create New menu to reveal a list of all available units in your class.

1. Click the unit that you want to build your new assignment in.

1. You are brought to the Assignment Editor's Choose Name tab.

1. Define the assignment name.

TIP: The assignment name is displayed to your students on the Class Homepage. Ensure that your assignment name is unique, informative, and easily identifiable.

1. Define a short name of the assignment.

TIP: The short name is displayed only when screen space is limited.

1. Define a description of the assignment.

1. Define the text to show at the head of each page of the assignment.

1. Define the text to show on the results page of the assignment after it is submitted.

TIP: The text to show on the results page is displayed as a part of the graded assignment report.

1. Click Save.

1. Click 2. Select Questions to add questions to your assignment.

Assignment Editor's Select Questions tab

Add questions to your assignment using the Select Questions tab of the Assignment Editor.

You can add questions to your assignment by:

• Importing questions
• Creating new questions
• Creating new question groups

Import questions into your assignment

1. Click Import Question.

1. The Content Repository opens. Click Questions and navigate to where the questions you want to import are stored.

1. Select the check boxes of the questions that you want to import.

1. Click Import.

1. The imported questions now appear in the Navigation pane of the Assignment Editor.

1. Click the Points box to manually define the scoring weight of the question.

NOTE: The scoring weight of a question defaults to 1. These point values apply only to assessment-style assignments such as homework, quizzes, anonymous practice, and proctored exams. Mastery and study session dialogs do not use these points because they employ other pedagogical scoring models.

1. Click the Add arrowto add more questions to your assignment.

TIP: After adding questions to your assignment, you can organize the order of the questions in the Navigation pane by clicking and dragging the question to the desired position.

1. Click Save when you are done.

TIP: Check out Delete an assignment question for help with removing a question from an assignment.

Create new questions in your assignment

1. Click New Question.

1. The Question Editor opens. Design your new question.

1. Click the Save icon in the Question Editor.

1. Your new question now appears in the Navigation pane of the Assignment Editor.

1. Click the Points box to manually define the scoring weight of the question.

NOTE: The scoring weight of a question defaults to 1. These point values apply only to assessment-style assignments such as homework, quizzes, anonymous practice, and proctored exams. Mastery dialogs, study session dialogs, and adaptive assignments don't use these points because they employ other pedagogical scoring models.

1. Click the Add arrowto add more questions to your assignment.

TIP: After adding questions to your assignment, you can organize the order of the questions in the Navigation pane by clicking and dragging the question to the desired position.

1. Click Save when you are done.

Create a new question group in your assignment

Question group — A defined subset of questions selected from the Content Repository that can be used in an activity.

TIP: Question groups are ideal for mastery dialogs.

1. Click New Question Group.

1. The new Group appears in the Navigation pane of the Assignment Editor.

1. Click the Group arrowto decide what function to use for this new question group:

• Click Import Question to copy questions from the Content Repository just like you would do for a question that isn't in a question group.

• Click New Question to create a new question just like you would do for a question that isn't in a question group.

1. Click Properties in the Group menu to:

• Edit the name of the question group

• Select the Randomly select n question(s) to display check box to display only a random subset of questions from the question group to the student.

NOTE: If the Randomly select n question(s) to display option is selected (where n is the number of questions), select a number from the drop-down list to define the subset of random questions to be displayed in the assignment. The number of options available in the drop-down list match the number of questions in your question group.

NOTE: If the Randomly select n question(s) to display check box is not selected, all questions in the question group are displayed in the assignment.

• Choose whether to randomize the order of questions in the question group when displayed to the student.

NOTE: If the Randomly select n question(s) to display option is selected (where n is the number of questions), then the order of the questions displayed to the student will also be random; the Randomly order questions option is automatically selected.

• Assign the scoring weight of each question in the question group.

NOTE: Each question in the question group is assigned the weight that you define in the Allot n point(s) per question box (where n is the manually defined scoring weight). These point values apply only to assessment-style assignments such as homework, quizzes, anonymous practice, and proctored exams. Mastery and study session dialogs do not use these points because they employ other pedagogical scoring models.

1. Click Save in the Group Properties window.

1. Click the Add arrowto add more questions to your assignment.

TIP: After adding questions to your assignment, you can organize the order of the questions in the Navigation pane by clicking and dragging the question to the desired position. You can also reorganize questions within question groups by clicking and dragging them to new positions.

1. Click Save when you are done.