NEW Courses Release with Assignments and Grading Book Features

Reader Disclosure

It's back-to-school season! In most parts of the world, the first day of school is right across the horizon ( if it hasn't begun already) and the soon-to-be pupils have been enjoying the last days of summer bliss.

What's inside          Toggle

•     Courses The #1 LMS Tool for Online Educators
•     Unleash Creativity in Coursework with NEW Assignments
•       3 Reasons Why You’ll Love Adding Assignments to Your Online Courses
•     How to Create Assignments in  Courses
•     Simplify Assessment Tasks with the NEW Gradebook
•       3 Reasons Why You’ll Love the Gradebook Add-On
•       How to Set Up and Grade Assignments with Gradebook
•     Conclusion

Teachers are, however are returned to their classrooms over the last months, setting up fresh seating arrangements, hanging new posters, making updated attendance sheets, and practicing innovative teaching methods they can't wait to try with the new students they will be teaching.

At e-Learning, we would like our online teachers to feel the same enthusiasm and excitement as they set up an interactive and efficient virtual learning environment for their pupils.

We're so excited to introduce new tools for students. NEW Courses tools: Assignmentsand Gradebook:

• Assignments: Students can be able to complete and submit various projects directly within the course. From writing essays to designing web pages to creating digital portfolios and multimedia content, these assignments aid in developing analytical, technical and interpersonal skills. They will give an overview of their knowledge.
• gradebook Grades are now simpler, which allows the management of all students' grades from one place. It simplifies the process of keeping track of individual progress and makes it simpler for you to monitor performance and provide prompt feedback. Students are also able to easily check their scores, which helps them remain informed and inspired to stay on track with the goals of their education.

We created these tools to help make your classroom more fun, more organised, and ready to provide an enjoyable educational experience for you as well as your students.

Let's take a closer look!

Courses: The #1 LMS tool for online educators

This robust tool was crafted to enhance your teaching experience, allowing you to focus on what you enjoy most: teaching and sharing your experience.

• Our intuitive interface makes course creation, making it easy and enjoyable to build your curriculum.
• Automatically issue certificates for students at the time of course completion giving recognition and value to their efforts.
• You can customize the design and layout of your classes to match your branding perfectly by using a variety of possibilities for customizing, which will ensure a completely built-by-you learning experience.
• Experience seamless transactions through a range of payment gateways, making the enrollment of courses and payment for fees easy.
• Manage who can access your content by defining access rules, ensuring a secure and exclusive learning environment.
• Get detailed tutorials, guides, and personalized support for helping you setup the most efficient course for you.

Our dedication to excellence makes Courses out from other LMSs and positions us as an industry leader on the LMS market.

Yes, it takes extra efforts to succeed in both, however to us, it's an easy decision because our customers need the very best!

That commitment drives us to constantly research new trends in the market as well as adopting best practices and improve our tools in order to meet and exceed the expectations of our customers.

It's that commitment to our customers that has led to the development of the latest feature: Assignmentsand Grading Book.

The tools designed by these are intended to keep your students on track and enable you to make your online role as an educator easy and efficient as possible.

Inspire creativity in your coursework with NEW Assignments

When you incorporate different kinds of work, you can not only create a more stimulating learning environment for your students but increase the scope of your teaching methods.

Here's how you can diversify your course content with several assignments:

• Essays and written reports: Encourage students to get their ideas flowing with traditional essay writing or require the most serious detective work in investigative reports.
  
• Digital projects: Spark creativity by having students build web pages or create portfolios in digital format. Perfect for classes that require visual creativity for example, online marketing, web design and graphic design.
  
• Media Submissions Let students demonstrate their abilities through video, graphics, or other formats for multimedia. It's great for courses which require a bit of action, like public speaking or computer tutorials.
  
• Complete Projects Challenge students to combine it all with graphics, text and media - to create complete projects that prove an understanding of subject and satisfy the expectations of their assignments.

Three reasons why you'll love Adding Assignments to Your Online Courses:

1. Inspires Diverse Skills

The Assignments supplement broadens knowledge beyond the typical writing assignments. It's intended to aid students build a broad array of the skills they'll employ in daily life.

• Written and analytical abilities: Writing essays or research papers isn't solely about the writing process. Students engage in complex analysis. They learn to build powerful arguments, justify the arguments with evidence and express their thoughts clearly and with precision.
  
• technical and design skills: When students get into assignments like designing pages for websites or making digital portfolios, it's a case of applying real technical skills; from programming to graphic design. The tasks help them grasp key design principles and the user experience. These are essential to careers in the field of digital marketing as well as web development.
  
• Media Production Skills working on multimedia or video projects, students learn much more than cutting or editing. Students investigate narrative structure, learn the intricacies of audiovisual storytelling, and master the specifics of multimedia production.
  
• Presentation and Communication Skills: Whether it's showcasing an online portfolio, making an audio or video clip, or preparing a report, presenting work using a variety of formats improves students' ability to express their thoughts clearly and convincingly crucial skills that are essential for every career path.

 2. Increases Interaction

Each assignment has been crafted to encourage students to go deeper into their learning experience and remain engaged throughout the course.

• Experiment with the different learning styles of students: With a range of assignments, students have the opportunity to investigate and discover what works best for them. If they are good at the areas of analytical thinking, technical work and creative work, or telling stories, it is possible to permit them to try different methods and discover their strengths.
  
• Stay Engaged and Curious: The variety of tasks keeps learning lively and thrilling. With the continuous introduction of different formats and challenges Students remain curious and emotionally engaged in their course.
  
• Experience the learning process: Offering a mix of assignments makes this course a fun course. Students are more likely anticipate assignments when they know they'll encounter new challenges every time, which makes the process of learning enjoyable and enjoyable.

 3. Flexible Settings that can be customized

Every course is different So we've developed the Assignments add-on that offers numerous options to customize it. It's flexible enough to adjust assignments to align with the goals of your class and to meet your students' requirements.

• Particular Character Numbers. Limit the character count to keep students on point. This ensures they're detailed enough to not be rambling or too brief, helping maintain the standard of their writing.
  
• Points for Achievement. Points are awarded for assignments that have been completed to encourage students to put in their best effort. It's a great method to motivate them and recognize their hard work.
  
• Resubmission Opportunities. Let students resubmit their projects after getting feedback. Help them learn from their errors and make improvements. This is an excellent approach to create a positive mindset which is always growing and becoming more efficient.

How can you make assignments for courses

The first step is to incorporate the assignment in your course, and then write down the instructions on the page for your assignment:

Prior to putting your work live, remember to add the image that you want to highlight, label your content using tags as well as secure access to your assignment by using Rules If needed.

Stay with us to learn how to grade homework with our NEW Gradebook add-on next! The video tutorial is detailed...

Make Assessment tasks easier with the NEW Gradebook

As an educator, you understand that teaching involves much more than simply delivering a lecture. After your students have taken an interest in the subject as they completed their assignments and completed quizzes, it's now time for you to evaluate the effort they put into it.

Previously, checking student progress meant navigating through each quiz separately to see the students as well as their answers and scores.

Every course that is that you offer is now fitted with a Gradebook. As soon as students complete exams or assignments, the work automatically populates in the Gradebook.

The Gradebook allows you to view and grade each of your students' assignments from one page. The Gradebook collects all assignments as well as quizzes on one page which makes it easy to monitor and assess the performance of each student.

3 Reasons You'll Enjoy this Gradebook Add-On

1. Simplifies Grade Management

The new Gradebook feature focuses on simplifying your life in handling your grades.

It consolidates all of your grading needs in your admin interface, eliminating the stress of managing multiple spreadsheets or sifting through pages.

In one location You can easily assess how each student is doing in their work and tests. This will not only speed up the grading process but it also makes it easier and much less stressful.

2. Individual Student and Classroom Tracking

With the Gradebook upgrade, you get access to live, immediate reports which highlight individual student progress and overall class performance.

This dual overview helps you to identify trends quickly as well as areas where students could require extra support, and adjust your teaching strategies accordingly.

The Gradebook also features filtering and search options, making it easy to customize your experience of exams or assignments as well as student progression.

You can see each student's submitted quizzes and assignments along with their scores and their cumulative score:

Getting a handle on these patterns allows you to modify your lessons to meet the needs of each individual student, and make sure that every student receives the appropriate level of assistance to achieve.

3. Transparent Feedback

The Gradebook simplifies how you handle the grading process and provides feedback. It provides a clear breakdown of scores for each test and assignment, so that both you and your students can easily track progress.

This helps to identify the areas in which students perform well and where they may need some more support.

It is also possible to award bonuses for outstanding work, providing a quick and effective method to reward and recognize effort.

The most useful feature to teachers is the personal feedback section. Here, you can leave specific feedback right beside the grade:

This configuration allows you to provide specific feedback to students that they can be able to match with their marks increasing both your instruction effectiveness and the focus of their learning.

A well-organized Gradebook system helps you stay organized, and improves your ability to guide the student's education journey, making the educational course more efficient and personal.

How to Configure and grade assignments using the Gradebook

It's time to get rid of that outdated gradebook with its tiny texts and cramped columns! The Gradebook extension introduces a new, user-friendly approach to grade-giving.

It offers a simple and easy-to-use interface. It not only improves how students' data is displayed but also streamlines your grading process, offering a visually appealing and comprehensive summary.

Inside the Gradebook, you'll find all of your grades neatly arranged: each student's completed quizzes and assignments as well as the grades you've given them, and their overall scores which are clearly visible all in one place.

Furthermore, anything which hasn't yet been graded is clearly marked in the form of "ungraded," making it easy to identify what's worthy of to be your next focus.

Take a look at our comprehensive video guide to help you create assignments and marking them within Courses:

Conclusion

Prepare for a memorable school year by utilizing Courses the latest and best tools: the assignmentsand Gradebookadd-ons.

These cutting-edge tools were created to streamline the course management and grading processes, freeing up the time you need to deliver a powerful educational.

With the Assignments option, students are able easily submit their work directly on the platform, while it's Gradebookprovides a clear, organized way to track grades and feedback.

Haven't set up your classroom? No worries! Follow the link below to start and be part of the thousands of educators who are making online learning more dynamic and engaging.

What's the initial assignment you're going to add to your curriculum? Share your teaching suggestions with us in the comments section below!

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