Assignments is an add-on application for learning management systems (LMSs) that helps you distribute, analyze, and grade student work with Google Workspace for Education.
Assignments makes Google Docs and Google Drive compatible with your LMS for file submissions. You can use Assignments to save time distributing and grading student work, and analyze student submissions with originality reports to ensure authenticity.
- You can use Assignments as a Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) tool integrated within your LMS.
- It works with any LMS that supports LTI version 1.1, such as Canvas or you can use Assignments with LTI version 1.3 for Canvas or Schoology.
- Adding Assignments to your LMS might require assistance from your LMS administrator. If you have never set up an add-on application or external tool for your LMS, talk to your IT admin or LMS admin about setting up Assignments in Canvas or Schoology.
- If you use an account associated with your educational institution, terms may apply based on your organization's agreement with Google. If you don’t use a managed account, the Google Terms of Service may apply.
- At this time, Google Workspace Admin support for installation help and troubleshooting is only available for customers using Canvas.
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Features and benefits of Assignments
Distribute personalized Google Drive templates and worksheets to students
- Assign and collect virtually any file type, including Google Docs and Microsoft® Word files.
- Automatically distribute a personalized copy of assignment files for each student.
- Each distributed copy will be labeled with a student’s name and organized in a Drive folder.
Spot missed citations and possible plagiarism with originality reports
- Assess student work for originality without leaving your grading tool.
- Searches hundreds of billions of web pages and 40 million books.
- Help students learn to support their ideas by letting them scan their work for missed citations up to three times before submitting.
- For Google Workspace for Education Plus customers, originality reports will scan past student submissions for student-to-student matches within your school’s domain.
Save time grading while providing rich feedback
- Prevents students from editing their work while you grade.
- Grade with rubrics to keep grading consistent and transparent.
- Give rich feedback and suggestions on student work using the power of Google Docs, including margin comments, strikethroughs, and highlighting.
- Easily reuse frequent margin comments with a personalized comment bank.
- Grades save to the LMS gradebook.
Get started with Assignments
For admins
To get started with Assignments, go to the article for your LMS.
For educators
To get started with Assignments, go to the Educator's guide to Assignments setup.