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Easily distribute, analyze, and grade student work with Assignments for your LMS

Assignments is an application for your learning management system (LMS). It helps educators save time grading and guides students to turn in their best work with originality reports — all through the collaborative power of Google Workspace for Education.

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Make Google Docs and Google Drive compatible with your LMS

Simplify assignment management with user-friendly Google Workspace productivity tools

Built with the latest Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standards for robust security and easy installation in your LMS

Save time distributing and grading classwork

Distribute personalized copies of Google Drive templates and worksheets to students

Grade consistently and transparently with rubrics integrated into student work

Add rich feedback faster using the customizable comment bank

Examine student work to ensure authenticity

Compare student work against hundreds of billions of web pages and over 40 million books with originality reports

Make student-to-student comparisons on your domain-owned repository of past submissions when you sign up for the Teaching and Learning Upgrade or Google Workspace for Education Plus

Allow students to scan their own work for recommended citations up to three times

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Compatible with LTI version 1.1 or higher and meets rigorous compliance standards

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Google Assignments, your new grading companion

Aug 14, 2019

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Instructors lose valuable time doing cumbersome tasks: writing the same comment on multiple essays, returning piles of paper assignments, and battling copy machine jams. These frustrations are most often felt by instructors with the highest teaching workloads and the least time. For the last five years, we’ve been building tools—like Classroom and Quizzes in Google Forms—to address these challenges. Now you can take advantage of these tools if you use a traditional Learning Management System (LMS). 

Assignments brings together the capabilities of Google Docs, Drive and Search into a new tool for collecting and grading student work. It helps you save time with streamlined assignment workflows, ensure student work is authentic with originality reports, and give constructive feedback with comment banks. You can use Assignments as a standalone tool and a companion to your LMS (no setup required!) or your school admin can integrate it with your LMS. Sign up today to try Assignments.

If you're one of the 40 million people using Classroom: you've got the best of Assignments already baked in, including our new originality reports . For everyone else, Assignments gives you access to these features as a compliment to your school’s LMS. 

Assignments is your tireless grading companion

Using an LMS can create more work than it saves: students turn in all kinds of files, you have to download and re-upload student files one-by-one, and what if students can keep editing after they already turned in their work? Assignments handles all this for you.

Assignments streamlines the creation and management of coursework, and tackles some of your biggest frustrations:

Stop typing the same feedback over and over by using a comment bank, and never worry about pressing the “save” button again

Check student work for originality and automatically lock work once it’s turned in

Assign files with the option to send each student a copy (no more copy machines!)

Grade assignments for an entire class with a student switcher and rubrics, and review any file type without leaving your grading interface

Comment and leave suggestions on student work with Google Docs

Instructors and students can attach anything to assignments: Docs or Word files for papers, spreadsheets for data analysis, slides for presentations, sites for digital portfolios or final projects, Colab notebooks for programming exercises, and much more. 

Help students turn in their best work with originality reports

With originality reports in Assignments, you can check student work for missed citations and possible plagiarism without interrupting your grading workflow. When students turn in a document, Assignments will check students’ text against hundreds of billions of web pages and tens of millions of books. 

If you enable originality reports on an assignment, students can also check their work for authenticity (a limited number of times) to correct issues, turn in their best work, and save instructors time grading. Since both you and your students can see originality reports, they’re designed to help you teach your students about authenticity and academic integrity. 

Getting started with Assignments

Starting today, you can sign up to get access to Assignments when it becomes available in a few weeks. Assignments will be available for free as part of G Suite for Education and can be used by instructors alongside or integrated with an LMS. 

Instructors can use Assignments even if your school has an LMS. There’s no setup required, all you need is to sign up and have a school-issued Google account. 

Admins can turn on access to Assignments within your LMS. Assignments is available as an LTI tool, which provides a more integrated experience and enables roster syncing and grade transmission to your LMS gradebook. Assignments is an improved and expanded version of Course Kit, so if you’re already in the Course Kit beta, you’ll automatically have access to Assignments. 

If you use Canvas, we’ve worked with their team to complement the Assignments LTI tool with a set of additional features that make Docs and Drive work seamlessly across all Canvas assignments. 

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Google Assignments is an external tool within Canvas Assignments that allows you to distribute, review, and grade student work with G Suite for Education .  With Assignments,  you can virtually assign and collect any file type, including Google Docs and Microsoft Word files.  You can also attach assignment files that will automatically distribute a personalized copy for each student.  Each distributed copy will be labeled with a student’s name and organized in a Drive folder.  Finally, grades from Google Assignments will also save to Canvas Grades. 

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• Admins: Google Assignments (LTI 1.3) must be enabled to use SpeedGrader. Visit the Help Center to learn more about setting up Assignments in Canvas . 
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Canvas SpeedGrader . 

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Collaboration is the theme of new Canvas integrations from Google: Google Assignments LTI 1.3 Update and Google Meet LTI

As educators, you strive to make a difference every day in your students' success while balancing your fast-paced and multi-faceted lives. From lesson planning to reviewing student work to managing your classrooms, you need all your teaching and learning tools to work seamlessly together in one place. It's essential your edtech tools are meaningful, secure, and flexible so that you can focus on student outcomes and not on technology.

Today, we're announcing that Google Assignments LTI 1.3 now integrates with Collaborations in Canvas LMS, the latest feature to round out the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 tool. With the addition of Collaborations, teachers and students can work together in the same document at the same time, optimizing the teaching and learning experience with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and now Forms, Drawings, Sites, and Jams.

Here's what's new from Google integrations:

• Collaborations feature enabled across Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Drawings, Sites, and Jams in Google Assignments LTI 1.3
• Educators should start transitioning to Google Assignments LTI 1.3 (from Google Apps LTI)
• There is additional security with LTI 1.3
• Google Apps LTI will end-of-life in 2024
• Google Meet LTI will be available for free for back-to-school 2024

Additionally, in the spirit of collaboration, Google is announcing plans to build Google Meet LTI for Canvas, which will be available at no charge to all Canvas LMS users by back-to-school 2024. Whether teaching remotely, in-person, or in a hybrid model, video collaboration helps your school community stay connected and keeps continuity of learning through sick days, snow days, or other unforeseen events.

Improving collaboration and streamlining coursework

In 2020, Google released Google Assignments LTI 1.3, which uses the latest Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standards. Leveraging the collaborative power of Google Workspace for Education, it allows educators to distribute, analyze, and grade student work—for no additional charge for Canvas and Google customers.

Educators with paid editions of Google Workspace for Education get access to premium features, like new collaboration features in Docs and unlimited originality reports , which encourage critical thinking while helping instructors scan for potential plagiarism.  

Google Assignments LTI 1.3 now integrates with Collaborations and allows teachers and students to work together in the same document at the same time. With this launch, Google Assignments LTI 1.3 has all of the functionality of the older Google Apps LTI and now includes improved security, flexibility, and integrations.

With the older Google Apps LTI, educators and students can collaborate on Docs, Sheets, and Slides. The new Google Assignments LTI 1.3 with Collaborations also supports Collaboration in Forms, Drawings, Sites, and Jams. Additionally, Google Assignments LTI 1.3 is built on the latest security standards of LTI 1.3. Google Assignments LTI 1.3 provides flexibility with the choice to grade using Canvas Speedgrader or Google Assignments, whichever tool best fits your needs.

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Transitioning from Google Apps LTI to Google Assignments LTI 1.3

It's time to start transitioning to Google Assignments LTI 1.3. Beginning in August 2023, Canvas users will need to install the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 tool going forward and will no longer be able to install Google Apps LTI. No further development will be made on the Google Apps LTI tool. Current Google Apps LTI users will retain access but should start transitioning to Google Assignments LTI 1.3 to improve collaboration in your class. When moving over to Google Assignments LTI 1.3, educators will need to re-create their assignments and can leverage this step-by-step guide to help with the transition. Google Apps LTI will reach end of life in 2024, meaning users will no longer be able to access the Google Apps LTI tool.

Secure, reliable meetings in Canvas, powered by Google Meet

Another new tool integration between Google and Instructure announced today is Google Meet LTI. Meet LTI is an integrated application that will give students and educators an easy-to-use, reliable, and secure video conferencing tool within Canvas. Canvas users will be able to virtually connect school communities for classes, parent-teacher conferences, professional development, and more. Meet LTI will be available at no charge to all Canvas and Google Workspace for Education users by back-to-school 2024.

Ready to get started? Administrators can turn Google Assignments LTI 1.3 on within Canvas now. Visit this page to learn how to get started and make teaching and learning even more collaborative.

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Prioritize Video Assignments: Try Submit to Replace Flip

With Flip moving into Microsoft Teams and retiring their web and mobile apps, we understand that teachers and schools are losing a valuable tool for student video creation. We know giving students the ability to connect with video is powerful and we hope to support anyone impacted by this change. We invite you to explore Submit, which is a fast, secure, and easy way for teachers to enable students to record and submit videos. Our Submit feature is 100% focused on prioritizing student voice through video assignments. Here’s a message from our CEO, Vishal Shah, on how we can help:

How Submit can bring value to your classroom:

• 📣 Prioritize student voice: help students practice skills and gain confidence
• ⏳ Save time by replacing in-class assessments with oral assessments in Submit
• 🫶 Check in with students and connect more one-to-one
• 🎥 Build a student portfolio over time

It’s easy to create a video assignment, share it with your class, and have them safely record their response without having to download anything. One active assignment at a time is free. We also have LMS integrations with Canvas, Schoology, and Google Classrooms to make things simple. If you haven’t used Submit in a while, we’ve recently released a ton of improvements to make assignment creation and grading easier, plus assignment templates to help spark ideas.

Check out our demo from Squad member Kay-Anne for a walkthrough of how it works:

Key features:

• Students record in their browser—nothing to download or install!
• Use our Google Classroom integration to share directly to Google Classroom
• Choose what kind of video you want students to record (screen, webcam, or both!)
• Control whether or not students can see their own videos and/or each other’s videos
• Rotating, calendar-relevant assignment templates to spark ideas
• Easier-than-ever grading workflows and grade export

If you have any questions about transitioning from Flip to Submit or need assistance, feel free to reach out to [email protected] .

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Fueled by philanthropy: Construction Engineering and Management program builds opportunities

Ongoing donor support from industry partners help train the next generation of the construction engineering workforce and provides experience to launch their careers.

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Strong donor support and industry partnerships bolster a plethora of opportunities offered in San Diego State University’s J.R. Filanc Construction Engineering Management (CEM program), preparing students with a competitive edge and industry knowledge as they enter the workforce. 

“The CEM program at SDSU has provided me with countless opportunities to begin my young professional career and to become a part of a highly supportive community. … I have had many off campus opportunities, which includes multiple internship positions and participation in the annual Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) Competition,” said Tristen Montalvo-Benedetto , engineering student and SDSU AGC and Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) Chapter President. 

Established in 2008, the hands-on program is designed  to promote student success, and create a pipeline to the regional construction workforce. 

Harper Construction Company is among several philanthropic supporters that dedicate their time and resources to enriching the engineering management program. Their work with College of Engineering faculty and staff allows students to gain the training needed for construction engineering and management roles upon graduation. 

“Our donors' support is essential to the success of the program as we can continue to be competitive with other schools, attract the best faculty to enhance our students' education, and offer hands-on experiences that would not be available without their support,” said AGC Paul S. Roel Chair in Construction Engineering and Management Professor Thais Alves . 

Harper, a family-owned and San Diego-based firm, has hired SDSU alumni, and has helped establish faculty positions, student internships, and fieldwork opportunities.

Harper Construction CEO and President and Associated General Contractors (AGC) Board Member Jeff Harper , and founder and Chairman Ron Harper have a strong connection to the San Diego community. Longstanding Aztec sports fan Jeff Harper and his family became interested in finding ways to support student success and the development of the San Diego economy. 

“I enjoy that it appears there's some more training all the way around (at SDSU), to get more of a complete skill set involved, which is what we need for the workforce, and particularly what we're doing as a general contractor,” said Harper.

With the preparation the CEM program provides, students graduate with specific qualifications required to lead government-funded engineering projects. Some of these projects include F-35 aircraft hangars, training facilities, and recruitment barracks – useful skills in a county and state with numerous military bases. 

In addition, the company helped support the Jim Ryan Chair in Construction Management, which expanded the Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering Department to construction management degrees. Moreover, the endowed chair fund bolsters a high-level faculty position in the program. 

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“The CEM program is particularly appealing to us as it trains students for, not just the engineering aspect of it but also everything else that’s involved such as letter writing, negotiations, and contracts,” said Jeff Harper. 

Alves sees firsthand how the SDSU engineers are ready  for real-world engineering roles upon graduation. 

“Being located in a metropolitan area, we have unparalleled access to active construction sites and networking opportunities that usually translate into paid internships and later, high-paying, fulfilling jobs,” said Alves. 

The philanthropic support for the program also allows student engineers to participate in field trips to public and private contracting organizations, site visits to ongoing projects as part of course assignments, and networking events that feature guest speakers from industry. 

“There are constant opportunities to attend information sessions from industry professionals, receive scholarships, and ultimately be highly qualified for the full-time positions upon graduating. The CEM program is also a very close knit community, where most students know each other, and are able to build long lasting relationships that will carry over to the field and their future careers,” said Montalvo-Benedetto. 

The donor impact is far-reaching and has gained momentum from local organizations and industry leaders on the AGC San Diego Board of Directors . Supporters such as President of Marathon Construction Company, Mike Furby; CEO of J.R. Filanc Construction Company, Mark Filanc; CEO of AGC, San Diego Chapter, Eddie Sprecco; Executive Vice President of AGC, Jim Ryan, Austin Cameron, have each played a significant role in the expansion of the program.

To provide a gift to support the College of Engineering, contact Senior Director of Development Kate Carinder at [email protected] .

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Today, we’re announcing the next wave of AI innovations from Microsoft Education that will help unlock productivity and personalize learning. This includes expanded Copilot for Microsoft 365 availability and Loop coming to education. We’re also sharing news about AI built for education such as Reading Coach and features designed to free up time for educators and personalize learning. As part of our continued work to build AI literacy, we’ve launched our latest course for educators and a new learning path on Microsoft Learn. And earlier this week we outlined Microsoft’s position and themes for policymakers to consider around advancing youth online safety and wellness.  

Bringing the future of productivity to education

Last month, we were thrilled to announce several Microsoft Copilot expansions for education audiences . Copilot with commercial data protection will be available to all faculty and higher education students who are 18+, including users of our free offers. And on January 1, 2024, education faculty and staff became eligible to purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365. We’re already seeing innovative organizations like The University of Hong Kong, The University of Manchester, and GEMS Education lead the way as early adopters. We shared additional updates this week including eligibility for Office 365 A3 and A5 faculty customers and removed the 300-seat purchase minimum to empower organizations of all sizes.  

Microsoft Loop is a flexible, AI-powered collaboration app that can help you think, plan, and create together. We’re excited to share that Loop will be included in Microsoft 365  A3 and A5 plans, including Student Use Benefit in early March 2024. Customers with Office 365 A1 can continue creating workspaces and pages through June 30, 2024, and will be able to access them afterwards. Watch the video Microsoft Loop – think, plan and create together like never before to learn more about Microsoft Loop and try Loop  today! 

Transforming reading experiences 

It’s well known that reading is foundational to a student’s academic success; studies show that fluent readers are four times more likely to graduate high school and get better jobs. Educators and parents alike are looking for ways to help students improve reading fluency in a way that keeps them engaged and prior research has found that personalized learning is one of the most effective ways to help close learning gaps. With the latest AI technology, we have an opportunity to provide learners with personalized, engaging, and transformative reading experiences. Reading Coach, a Learning Accelerator now powered by generative AI, does just that. You can sign up for a preview of Reading Coach today and try it for yourself at Reading Coach Web app preview .

Reading Coach was already providing learners with personalized reading practice, instant feedback about pronunciation and fluency, while also giving insights back to educators. Today we’re sharing new features that will fuel student agency and motivation with dynamically created stories that adapt to their reading level and individual challenges.  

Reading Coach takes a unique approach to implementing generative AI with guardrails. Learners select the story’s protagonist, setting, and are provided with choices that alter the plot of the story as they read. Reading Coach combines these inputs with the learner’s selected reading level, and over time, words they mispronounce to dynamically create personalized stories that keep students engaged and in the driver seat. Students stay engaged with the power to pick a path of a story while they progress through the chapters. The story content is moderated for quality, safety, and age appropriateness. And in addition to creating AI-powered stories, learners can also pick leveled passages from the curated ReadWorks library.

Reading Coach intrinsically motivates learners to continue advancing their skills in several ways. They can unlock new story settings and characters, earn badges that reward their efforts, and see their pronunciation and fluency improvements in progress reports.  

We’re making Reading Coach more broadly available than ever, so that learners can read on the device of their choice, at home or school. It will be available on the web and as a Windows App, at no cost to anyone with a Microsoft account. Additionally, we’re making it easier for teachers to create Reading Coach practice assignments by adding integration with popular Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas, which will be available in late Spring 2024. Learn more about how Reading Coach works on our support documentation pages.  

These new Reading Coach features build on top of the passage generation and comprehension question generation in Reading Progress which will be available for preview late January 2024. With the use of AI in an impactful, safe, responsible way, we believe that personalized learning at scale is within reach. 

Saving time and differentiating instruction

In addition to reading, over the past year we have been focusing on opportunities to free up time for educators by further enhancing our products with AI. Today, we’re sharing more features coming to Microsoft Teams for Education and Microsoft Reflect to help tailor content. They will be generally available at no additional cost to all education customers later this year.  

All these tools quickly and easily generate content such as reading passages, comprehension questions, rubrics, assignment instructions, and more. Educators are always kept in control as the experts and can review initial drafts of content, generate more options, make edits, or choose to discard. Educators can personalize learning with the click of a button by using filters like age, language, topics, and increasing or decreasing the complexity of the content. And education organizations can choose to turn these features on or off.  

Classwork is a feature in Teams which is built to manage your curriculum and allows educators to create and organize class resources including Assignments, Files, Links, Channels, Class Notebook pages, and more. Classwork module generation helps easily kickstart content with module suggestions based on your subject, student age range, and scope of learning.  

When creating an Assignment in Teams, educators will be prompted with opportunities to leverage AI to easily emphasize key content, simplify, or add more detail, learning objectives, and even emojis. In each case, educators are reminded that AI-generated content may be incorrect, and they’ll need to choose to keep, discard, or regenerate the content.  

Once the Assignment is ready, educators can generate a rubric draft after providing title, evaluation, age range, scale, and criteria detail. Educators are then encouraged to review thoroughly and make any edits before attaching to an Assignment.  

Microsoft Reflect is a tool that helps students identify and express how they feel in safe and fun ways, building their emotional vocabulary and giving educators the insights they need to provide active support. Reflect can now further enhance understanding by enabling educators to generate options for learners to specify reasons behind the emotion. These options are tailored to the check-in question set by the educator and draw on multi-year research by experts from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Educators can regenerate, manually add, or completely discard results. Reasons can then be grouped at a class level into a predefined list of focus areas with strategies on how to navigate each one in partnership with Challenge Success , a nonprofit affiliated with Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. 

Building AI literacy for educators and students

As more exciting features are developed, we’ll continue to support building AI literacy in parallel. We’re now launching the AI for Educators Learning Path on Microsoft Learn , made up of three modules to help educators learn about and benefit from AI. It begins with empowering educators to explore the potential of AI, continues into how to enhance teaching and learning with Copilot, and finishes with our newest addition: Equip and support learners with AI tools from Microsoft . This new course walks educators through how to help learners discover, interact, and create with AI and generative AI. 

Educators can then leverage the AI Classroom Toolkit  to help teach and support students in using generative AI safely. It’s a creative resource that blends narrative stories with instructional information to create immersive and effective learning experiences for educators and their students. 

Advancing youth online safety and wellness

As we head into 2024, there is an urgent call to action for us all to take steps to protect youth safety and privacy online and to ensure that technology—including emerging technologies such as AI—serves as a positive force for the next generation. As policymakers and regulators weigh potential measures to help advance safety outcomes in the coming weeks and months, it is essential that they consider both the benefits and the risks of technology for young people. Read more in our blog about Microsoft’s position on these issues and themes for policymakers to consider as they work through initiatives to protect youth safety and privacy online. 

Learn more about today’s announcements in our latest What’s New in Microsoft EDU blog and join us at Bett next week to explore AI in education with Microsoft. 

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Apple @ Work

Kandji debuts ‘assignments’ feature to streamline automation, flexibility, and granularity for apple devices at work.

With the introduction of Assignment Maps, Kandji continues to drive new ways to manage Apple devices at work. This new feature revolutionizes how IT teams configure and manage Apple devices at scale, offering a more streamlined and automated approach to device management.

The Need for Automation

IT and business leaders widely recognize the value of automation in increasing productivity and focusing on core business initiatives. 45% of IT professionals believe that enhanced automation would enable their companies to maximize their investment in Apple devices . Kandji’s Assignment Maps directly addresses this need by automating the assignment of settings and applications, ensuring that the desired configurations are deployed efficiently and accurately.

Building on a Strong Foundation

Kandji was built around the concept of Blueprints, which are collections of Library Items used to deploy profiles, settings, scripts, security controls, and apps to devices. Blueprints provide a straightforward way to configure devices at scale. Assignment Maps takes this further by adding greater automation, flexibility, and granularity.

What Makes Assignment Maps Unique?

Assignment Maps are conditional blocks drawn on an infinite canvas containing one or more assignment nodes. Each node groups settings and configurations to be assigned to specific devices, with conditional logic determining whether and to which devices these items are assigned. This approach allows for easy grouping and nesting of configurations, offering several key benefits:

• Granular Control : Devices can belong to only one map at a time, ensuring that only the Library Items on that map are installed on those devices. This nesting capability increases granularity and specificity in assignments.

• Conflict Prevention : A built-in system of inherent priority prevents conflicting settings from being assigned to a device, resolving conflicts before they are applied.

• Enhanced Visibility : IT teams can gain visibility into the relationships between groups of devices, seeing exactly which settings and configurations are being applied.

• Device Lookup : A new lookup feature makes it simple to identify why specific Library Items were installed or configured on a device.

“With the introduction of Assignment Maps, we’re building upon our best-in-class Blueprints and driving efficiency for IT and InfoSec teams with automation, logic, and flexibility,” said Weldon Dodd, Senior Vice President for Global Solutions at Kandji. “Customers—from large enterprises to small and medium businesses—will discover new, intuitive ways to architect outcomes that were previously unattainable. This innovation strengthens our position as a powerful solution for managing Apple fleets.”

Assignment Maps aims to help IT teams deploy configurations confidently, freeing them to focus on initiatives that drive value for their companies.

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