From the course: Foundations of Learning Management Systems (LMS) (2018)

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Assignments, assessments, and accountability

Assignments, assessments, and accountability

From the course: Foundations of Learning Management Systems (LMS) (2018)

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Assignments, assessments, and accountability

- [Oliver] In most educational or training situations, it's important to engage the learner. To allow them to apply what they're learning, and then receive feedback. For this reason almost every LMS will allow you to create and assign assignments as well as assessments. Which can then be graded, feedback can be given and grades or results can be recorded and tracked. Let's take a look at a couple of examples of this. Right now I'm inside of my Biology 101 course in the Canvas Learning Management System, and if I click over here on Assignments, it will bring up assignments that I already have created. But in here I do have that ability to click on Plus Assignment, and start creating one inside of the platform. So from here I can name it, I can build it inside using the Rich Text Editor, again where I can add images, links, video things like that. And then down below I can customize it, if I want to make it a certain amount of points, or if I want it to be pass, fail, I can decide how…

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