Saying Goodbye to the Old Assignment and Assessment Experiences

A while back, we implemented a new Assignment experience for students. This feature has been in an opt-in state, allowing schools to adopt the new feature on a timeline that works best for them. That opt-in period is ending, however, and all schools will have the new Assignment experience enabled beginning 07/23.

Since the beginning of the opt-in period, we’ve been making steady improvements to make the experience as student-friendly as possible, and we have a couple additional changes queued up before the 07/23 go-live date.

For example:

• We know students really missed the drag-drop functionality from the previous experience. That function has made its return to this screen.
• Having more text editor options was important to students, so we swapped out the component we were using and increased the function of their text editor.
• We heard that locating missing assignments in the calendar view was difficult for students, so we added in a Missing Assignment option so they can quickly locate those actionable assignments.
• Students need to be able to see assignment tasks as their own calendar entries so they can better understand their workload. That feature is coming in early July.
• Students also need a way to quickly find any assignments marked as ‘Major’ so they can plan accordingly. That feature is also coming in early July.

There’s more that we want to bring to this screen over time, and if there are any enhancements your school would like to see in the future, please submit those in our Idea Banks!

If you would like to learn more about this feature, simply go to Core, Settings, Activate new features and you can access a Webinar and Help Documentation that outline the new experience in totality. You can also check out this video tutorial outlining some of the features you can expect:




In the same vein, the old Assessment experience will be inaccessible beginning 07/23/24. Any assessment created in the old experience will still be accessible for historical purposes, but teachers will no longer be able to create assessments in the old experience beginning 07/23/24.

Like the new Assignment experience, we’ve been making steady improvements to the new Assessment experience to deliver something teachers want to use. We know we still have a ways to go before we’re able to meet all needs and we have more plans to bring additional features to this experience in the future.

If you haven’t already, please look at the Question Bank feature we rolled out earlier this year to better support faculty with reusing questions across multiple classes/years. Check out this short video tutorial about some of the features released with Question Banks: