Managing group assignment settings
Group assignments allow you to quickly score all members of the group at the same time. There are occasions, though, where you may want to provide a different score for specific students on group assignments, while still grading the group as a whole.
Notes:
- Any changes made to individuals in the gradebook on groups assignments will also change the scores for their entire group.
- Ensure that you have either automatically or manually assigned students to a group.
Hide Grades
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Before you begin, you may want to set the assignment Grade Posting Policy to manually post grades for the group assignment. When grades are hidden, a notification will not be sent to students when grades are modified.
Open Assignment
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In SpeedGrader, click the assignment title to open the assignment details page. You can also access the assignment from the Assignments page.
Edit Assignment
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To edit the assignment, click the Edit button.
Edit Group Assignment Settings
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To enable the ability to assign grades to each student individually for a group assignment, click the Assign Grades to Each Student Individually checkbox.
Grade Individual Students
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In the Gradebook, you can now assign an individual grade to each student without affecting the previously assigned group grade.
Post Grades
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If you chose to manually post grades, you must post grades to make them visible to students. Click the Options icon [1] for the assignment and select the Post grades option from the drop-down menu [2].