About Edcite

Active Assignments

Edcite assignments are designed for formative and summative practice. Teachers can foster regular learning with Edcite's built-in assignment sending and tracking features. Auto-graded questions provide the necessary learning practice without the grading effort and feedback delays. Quick, relevant, and automated feedback can help students self-direct their learning efforts, and can give the teacher more time to focus on other learning outcomes.

Teachers can create assignments with questions that they have created, or choose from over 5,000 questions in the questions library.

These assignments can be emailed to students or sent to students through Edcite notifications. Teachers can subsequently track submissions and view student grade reports from their home page.

Creating Assignments

To create a new assignment, click on 'Create a New Assignment' from the Assignments tab.

The following page will show up.

Step 1: Add an assignment name, due date, and any directions for your students to follow. The 'Information for Questions' tool (outlined in blue below) allows you to input a passage, text, video, etc. that will appear at the beginning of each question within the assignment for your video. This tool will be used less often than not, but it might be useful if you have a video that you want to give students access to in each question.

Step 2: Add Questions:

1. Click on 'Add Questions'

2. Browse the 'Shared Questions' or 'My Questions' libraries and select the question(s) you wish to include in the assignment. You can click on several questions at once.

3. Alternatively, choose 'Create Question' to form your own question using any of our interactive question types.

4. You can also 'Import questions from other assignments' (orange box above). This tool allows to take the entire set of questions that you have previously used (from the 'my assignments tab') or that another teacher has used in an assignment (from the 'shared assignments' tab). This tool can be helpful if you want to take add on your own questions to the questions that appear in another teacher's assignment.

Step 3: Save!

Once the assignment is complete, click on 'save'. This will automatically save the assignments to your assignments library.

Step 4: Add Students

Once the assignment is ready to be sent out to your class, click on the "Add Students" tab. The following screen will pop up. You can add all students, add students from a specific class, or add a subset of students from different classes. Once you have selected the students you wish to invite, click 'add selected students'. Students will then get an invitation to complete your assignment.

Sharing Assignments

Follow the steps below to share an assignment in our assignments library.

1. Click on the + tool (screenshot below) to see a whole new set of options pop up. If you want to add a Common Core standard tag or a general assignment tag (like: chemistry, reading comprehension, solutions, mixtures), click on 'tags'. If you want to share your assignment, click 'share' and then type in an assignment name, topic, and short description. (Note: the assignment topic, not the name, will be what other teachers see in the assignments library.)

Tracking Assignments

All of your assignments will appear on your Home Page. To view which students have submitted an assignment, click on 'report' next to the assignment name.

Status descriptions:

'Invited' : The assignment has been sent to the student

'Unopened' : The student has has not yet opened (or started) the assignment

'Opened' : The student has started the assignment

'Completed' : The student has finished all the questions in the assignment

'Submitted' : The student has submitted his assignment for grading