Castle Learning Online – Assignments
A How-to guide for Teachers to create assignments using Castle Learning
From Teacher Home Page:
-Select “Assignments” link
· Ensure “Course” at top of page is the course from which you will select questions (You can pull from other courses in the midst of creating an assignment if you desire)
· Enter the name of the assignment in the blank (Ex: Fractions, Chapter 2 Review, etc.)
· Click "Create New Short Answer Assignment" (You should now be on a page with a blue stripe across the top)
Selecting Questions for the assignment: You have two options
#1 – Pull Questions from the Castle Learning Database
· Click "Add Questions" on the right hand side (A Question Criteria Page should appear in a new window)
· Select the “Unit(s)” on the left hand side by checking the box next to it
· Change “All Sections” on the corresponding Unit(s) line to a single sub-topic (drop down arrow) if desired
· Scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Browse and Select Questions Individually”
· Select the Questions you would like to add to your assignment by placing a check in the box to the left of the question
· Click “Done” – At the top or bottom right hand side of the page
· Click “OK” when the pop up box tells you how many questions you have selected
· If you would like to select more questions from another unit or course, click “Add More Questions” on the right hand side and follow the same process as above.
#2 – Pull Questions from your Personal Content Set Database
· Click "Import Questions" on the right hand side
· Click "Personal Content Sets" - green tab
· Click "Import" for the description name that houses your questions
· Select the questions you want by placing a “Check” next to each question or “Check All” if you want them all
· Click "Import Checked Questions" - it will tell you how many questions you imported, Click “OK”
You can create an assignment using a combination of Database and Personal Content Set Questions.
Assigning to your students: You have two options
#1 If you have the assignment showing (the page with all of the blue links on the right hand side), you can scroll to the very bottom of that page and click "Assign to Students"
OR
#2 From your Teacher Home Page click "Assignments". Next, click the “White piece of paper icon” under the "Assign/Monitor Students" column that corresponds to the assignment you wish to assign to your students
Regardless of how you do it, you will end up at a page that has four tabs. Select the tab/option you would like:
· Green - "Assign to Students" - if you wish to assign selected/handful of students
· Blue - "Quick Assign" - if you wish to assign the assignment to an entire block or more than one block
· Pink - "Self Assign" - if you want to see how the kids will view the assignment or if you have access to an LCD projector (you would go to Student Home Page from your Teacher Home Page to view)
· Select your “Assignment Mode” (Open, Quiz, Review as Quiz, Lock, Open From/To)
· Click “Assign”
· Once your kids have started the assignment, you can go to the yellow "Assignment Results" tab and
view their scores - this is real time data