[ARCHIVED] How do I bulk edit and bulk check assignment options?

[yoffema]

1) Suppose I want to configure all assignments within a group with the same grading options, e.g., assign each one 10 points and allow unlimited submission attempts.  Is there a way to configure them all at once?  

Alternately, is there a way to pull up an editable table containing the options for all assigments (the way there is for dates)?

2) Likewise, even if can't pull up an editable table for assigment options, is there a way to bulk check assignment options, i.e., pull up a single table showing what the options are for each assignment in a group (again, like there is for dates)?

It's tedious to have to manually enter each assigment to adjust these settings.  And you're more likely to make an error if you can't scan through a single table that lists the options for all assigments.

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Good evening, @yoffema ...

Unfortunately, there aren't any ways on the current UI (User Interface) of assignments to bulk edit details of all your assignments on one screen (like you can now do with availability and due dates).  And, to be honest, I am not even sure if there would be anything available via API that would allow you to do this.  (If there was, that's beyond my scope of knowledge, so hopefully someone with more experience in that area would be able to chime in.)

I searched the Community to see if I could find any existing Feature Ideas that might be close to what you are asking.  Here are a few that I found:

• Assignment Bulk Editing Functionality
• Bulk edit Assignment dates feature needed! 
• Bulk Actions for editing course/assignment settings and syncing blueprints

If any of these Feature Ideas would meet your needs, I would encourage you to post a comment to the relevant threads letting Instructure engineers know why this is important to you...even giving a real-world example.  Also, you can give any of those Ideas a star rating.  [More details on that found in How do idea conversations work in the Instructure ... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)].

I hope this will be of some help to you.  Let Community members know if you have any other questions about this...thanks!

[tbirbeck]

Though you cannot bulk edit, I wonder if it might be helpful to create template assignments (unpublished) that have the settings you want and duplicate them when you first create new assignments.  We have used this in cases where teachers have some complex settings and it has worked well. 

[AngelaGick]

I have a similar problem. Creating a template would be a great solution for new assignments. BUT my problem is that when I start out a new semester, we are to "convert" all of the assignments that are set up on a "weighted" system to a "points based" system. SO, we have to go through and change ALL of the pre-made assignments from 100 pts (no matter if it was a 1 question "quick-check" or a 30 question test!!!) to correlate to either the number of questions in the assignment OR the points associated with the category (ie, all quizzes are 10 points and tests are 50 points).

[gheinzel]

Yet another table-stakes piece of functionality that has hundreds of requests and no action from Instructure for years. No sure how this company stays in business.