Assigning makes it easy to distribute middle school activities to your students with optional due dates. This article focuses on assigning within the Amplify platform; which provides many benefits throughout Classwork and the curriculum lesson experience. For more information on assignment integrations with other platforms, visit the articles for Assigning in Google Classroom and Assigning in Microsoft Teams. Assigning guidance for grades K-5 can be found here.

To begin assigning activities, navigate to any middle school lesson. You’ll notice a blue Assign button on the Lesson Brief. This is the fastest way to assign multiple activities simultaneously. Alternatively, you can use the Assign button that is available in the header of each individual activity. Note that teacher-only activities (those labeled with a “T”) are not assignable to students.

Upon clicking Assign from the Lesson Brief or activity, a settings panel will open. You must choose at least one class section and one activity within the panel to create an assignment. Due dates are optional, but if one is chosen, it will default to 11:59:59pm on the date selected. You can select any date from the present to one year in the future.

The panel may disable activity and class options as you make selections to avoid overwriting existing assignments. Below are the states for activities in the panel:

Once an assignment has been created, it is represented in the ASSIGNED section that displays on both the corresponding lesson brief and the activity in the teacher view. The three-dot menu on the tile for each class section allows you to modify the existing assignment.

Student Home provides a centralized place for students to track all assignments throughout the year. In addition to alerts for new feedback, students are notified about each activity you assign on their Student Home.

Students can view notifications for new feedback and scores for all activities (both assigned and not assigned). Students can sort their stream by All, Not Started, Started, and Handed In.

In their stream, students will see an envelope icon for each activity with feedback or scores. Unread feedback or scores displays as a closed envelope. Viewed feedback displays as an open envelope.

Students can also identify activities to complete with yellow ASSIGNED labels in the lesson brief. These labels will remain on each activity as long as it is assigned.

Upon clicking an assignment in their stream, students can work on and hand in the activity just as they do in the curriculum.

Activities must be handed in by midnight on the day they are due in order to be considered on time. Any activities submitted after 11:59:59pm on the selected due date will be marked “Handed In Late” in Classwork. If a due date was not assigned, students and teachers will see “none” in the due date column instead.

To edit or unassign an existing assignment, click the three-dot menu on the assignment tile. Editing an assignment will reopen the panel with your current settings. Note that you cannot change class sections or navigate elsewhere while editing to avoid conflicts with other assignments.

If an activity is unassigned, you will no longer see the assignment tile in the lesson or activity header. The “ASSIGNED” label will be removed from your student’s curriculum lesson navigation, and the activity will no longer appear in their Student Home. In Classwork, any “Handed in Late” statuses will revert to “Handed In” because the due date no longer applies.

Assessment activities are also assignable but behave slightly differently than other lessons, because the content is not accessible to students by default. You must unlock the assessment lesson with the settings button in order for students to access the assigned activities. Remember to relock the assessment once all your students have handed it in.

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