Create and send Assignments to Students

Revolutionise your homework and quizzes with Assignments in Classroom Lessons.

What is an Assignment?

Assignments are a feature of Goodnotes Classroom, allowing you to send homework or knowledge tests to your students easily and efficiently within a Lesson. Assignments are sets of questions specifically designed for Grading and Sharing in Classroom. 

Assignment Phases

Initial Submission: Students submit work, locked with Lock Type 1 (cannot view or edit). Work remains locked until the teacher returns it.

Re-submission (Optional): Enabled by teachers during assignment creation.
When returned: Original submission is locked with Lock Type 2 (view-only). Students can create a new draft for re-submission.

Important Notes: Re-submissions must be enabled during assignment creation. Lock Type 2 is only available if re-submissions are enabled.

For standard assignments (no re-submission): Returned work is Lock Type 2 (view-only), but no re-submission is allowed.

Creating an Assignment

To create a new Assignment, make sure you are in Prep Mode. Create your assignment by writing questions, creating Answer Zones for Students to write their answers in and anything else you want to send to your students on the page. 

You can then publish your Assignment using the Publish Assignment button:

1. Choose the Share icon in the top right corner.
   
   
2. Choose Publish Assignment
3. Select the pages for the Assignment, then tap on Done
   
4. Add a Title, Due Date, and Description for the assignment. You can also link the Assignment to your Google Classroom account, then choose Publish Now

Note: Each page can only be part of one Assignment.

Students will then be notified that a new Assignment is due and will be able to see it in their copy of the Lesson. 

Grading and Returning Assignments

Once a student has submitted their Assignment, the Teacher can start grading. Changes added to the submitted Assignment will only be seen by the Student once Teacher has returned it.

Assignments can be returned individually or in bulk:

1. Make sure you are in Teach Mode
2. On the navigator at the bottom of the screen and switch to Feedback View
3. Find and open the chosen Assignment
4. Grade or annotate the Assignment however you please, then tap on Done

Read about using Smart Clusters to make Grading quicker!

You will then be able to use the Class Navigator tool to browse through each Student's answers, use Classroom's Grading options and leave annotations and notes before you return the Assignment:

1. Select Manage the option bar
2. Choose a Student or Select All, then tap on Return

Students will be notified once the assignment has been returned. After an Assignment is returned, Students can make changes to correct their work according to teacher feedback. Goodnotes will retain a snapshot of the returned Assignment on their record. 

Assignments also work with Google Classroom! Learn more here.

Enabling Assignment Re-submission (for Teachers)

After you've created your assignment, in the Publish Assignment window, you will see the Allow Re-submission toggle.

1. Click the Allow re-submission toggle (green = enabled)
2. Click Publish Now

Students will only be allowed to resubmit their assignment once. After the students resubmit their assignment, it will be locked and will become View Only. Students and teachers can annotate their own personalized layers on top of the locked assignment.

Returning submitted assignments

When you return the assignment and have enabled Allow re-submission, you will see a message at the top left corner indicating that the students can continue to work on the assignment and re-submit with their corrections.

Submitting Assignments (for Students)

Students can submit the Assignment once they are ready, which will notify the teacher.

1. Choose the Submit button in the Assignment taskbar
2. Preview the Assignment submission and select the Submit button

Students’ work will be locked once they have submitted the Assignment. However, they can unsubmit and revise their work before the due date (if set) .

Re-submitting assignments for students (teacher enabled only)

Students will be able to see a Re-submit button when the assigned is returned to them.

1. The student can edit their assignment
2. Once they have finished, they will see the blue Re-submit button. Clicking this button will then lock the assignment once it has successfully re-submitted.

View your Assignments

Teachers and Students can view the published Assignment in 2 ways:

1. Scroll to any one of the pages of the assignment then select the Document icon at the top of the page.
   
2. See all Assignments in a Lesson by selecting the Smart Views icon in the top left, and toggling By Question.
   

Please note: When viewing By Question, you will not be able to swipe back and forth between pages unless they are classed as Assignments, remember to come out of of this Smart View when you want to access other pages of your Lesson. 

While Students are working on the Assignment, Teachers can view their changes in real-time but will see that the Student has not yet submitted the assignment. Feedback by the teacher can be seen in real-time by the student.

Students sometimes may not be able to see notifications for new Assignments. If this occurs, please ask them to close the Goodnotes app and reopen it again.