NEW Courses Release with Assignments and Gradebook Features

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It's back-to-school season! In most parts of the world, the first day of school is just close by ( if it hasn't begun already) and students who are soon to be on the way are enjoying their last few days of summer freedom.

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•     Courses The #1 LMS Tool for Online Educators
•     Unleash Creativity in Coursework with NEW Assignments
•       3 Reasons Why You’ll Love Adding Assignments to Your Online Courses
•     How to Create Assignments in  Courses
•     Simplify Assessment Tasks with the NEW Gradebook
•       3 Reasons Why You’ll Love the Gradebook Add-On
•       How to Set Up and Grade Assignments with Gradebook
•     Conclusion

Teachers however were back in their classrooms for months, setting up fresh seats, hanging new posters, creating up-to-date attendance sheets as well as experimenting with innovative methods of teaching they can't wait to try for their new students.

Here at , we want our online educators to feel that same excitement and preparedness when they create an engaging and effective online learning space for their pupils.

We're so excited to announce the NEW Courses Tools: Assignmentsand Grading Book:

• Tasks The students in your class can be able to complete and submit many tasks directly from the curriculum. From writing essays to designing web pages, to making digital portfolios as well as multimedia content, these tasks will help them develop the analytical, technical, and interpersonal skills. They will give you a clear view of what they know.
• Grading Book: The process of grading has become more streamlined, allowing you to manage all student grades in one organized place. This makes it easier for keeping track of individual progress and makes it simpler for you to monitor performance and provide prompt feedback. Students can also easily view their scores, which helps them keep themselves informed and energized to stay on track with their learning goals.

We designed these tools for your classroom online to be more fun, more organised, and ready to provide an enjoyable educational experience for you as well as your pupils.

Let's take a closer look!

Courses: The #1 LMS Tool for Online Educators

This powerful tool was created to enhance your teaching experience, allowing you to concentrate on the things you are passionate about - teaching and sharing your experience.

• Our intuitive interface makes course creation, making it easy and enjoyable to create your own curriculum.
• Automatically issue certificates to students upon course completion giving recognition and value for their work.
• You can customize the design and layout of your classes to match your brand perfectly with extensive choices for customization, making sure you have a completely built-by-you learning experience.
• Experience seamless transactions through a range of payment options, making registration for courses and fees hassle-free.
• Control who accesses your content with customizable access policies, which ensure an exclusive and secure learning experience.
• Get detailed tutorials, guides as well as personalized assistance to assist you in setting up and optimize your courses efficiently.

Our passion for excellence is what makes Courses apart from the rest and makes us a leading player in the LMS market.

Yes, it takes extra effort to excel in both fields, but for us, it's a no-brainer because our users deserve the best!

Our commitment to continually research and study new market trends and adopt the best practices and improve our tools in order so that we can meet or exceed your expectations.

It's that commitment to our customers that has led to the development of our most recent features: Assignmentsand the Gradebook.

They are made to ensure that your students stay in line and to ensure that your role as an online teacher is as simple and effective as possible.

Inspire creativity in your coursework with NEW Assignments

When you incorporate different kinds of work, you can not only create a more enjoyable learning environment for your students, you can also broaden your teaching techniques.

Learn how to diversify your curriculum by incorporating a range of assignments:

• Essays and Written Reports: Encourage students to develop their thinking with traditional essay writing or demanding an intense detective effort for investigation reports.
  
• Digital projects: Spark creativity by making students create web pages or create portfolios using digital technology. The ideal choice for students who are awe-inspiring in visuals for example, web design, digital marketing, or graphic design.
  
• Media Submissions: Allow students to showcase their skills through videos and graphics or any different multimedia formats. This is great for courses which require a bit of action, like public speaking or tutorials on software.
  
• Comprehensive Projects: Challenge students to combine it all including text, images, as well as media to make complete projects that prove their understanding of the content and fulfill the assignment requirements.

Three Reasons You'll Like Adding Assignments to Your Online courses:

1. Inspires Diverse Skills

The Assignments supplement broadens knowledge beyond typical writing tasks. The aim is to assist students build a broad array of abilities they can use in everyday situations.

• Written and analytical abilities Drafting essays or research papers doesn't just mean writing words down. Students delve into complex conceptual thinking. They develop powerful arguments, justify the arguments with evidence and speak with clarity and precision.
  
• technical and design skills When students get into projects like making web pages or creating digital portfolios, they're using actual technical skills, from coding to graphic design. These tasks also help them learn the fundamentals of design and the user experience. These is essential for jobs in web and digital marketing development.
  
• Media Production Skills Making multimedia or video projects, students learn much more than cutting and editing. Students explore storytelling structure, understand the subtleties of audiovisual storytelling and master the specifics of multimedia production.
  
• Communication and presentation skills: Whether it's showcasing an online portfolio, making videos, or writing reports, writing using a variety of formats improves students' ability to express their thoughts clearly and convincingly crucial skills that are essential for every profession.

 2. Increases Interaction

Every assignment is crafted to encourage students to delve deeper into their learning experience and remain engaged during the entire course.

• Experiment with Learning Styles: With a range of activities, students can have the freedom to explore and find out what is most effective for them. If they are good at critical thinking, technical tasks, creative projects, or the art of storytelling, allow them to experiment with various approaches to identify their strengths.
  
• Keep Engaged and Curious: The variety of assignments keeps the learning process lively and thrilling. With the continuous introduction of innovative formats and new challenges the students are always interested and emotionally invested in the learning.
  
• Experience the learning process: Offering a mix of assignments makes it a pleasurable learning experience. Students are more likely enjoy assignments if they know that they'll be faced with something different every time, which makes the process of learning enjoyable and enjoyable.

 3. Configurable Settings

Each course is unique, so we've designed the Assignments add-on that offers many options for customization. It's flexible enough to alter assignments so that they are in line with your course objectives and meet the needs of your students.

• Specific Character counts. Limit the character count so that the students are on target. To ensure that their writing is precise without rambling or being too short, thereby ensuring the standard of their writing.
  
• Points for Completion. Award points for completed assignments for students to be motivated to give their best effort. It's a great opportunity to keep them interested and recognize their hard work.
  
• Resubmission Opportunities. Students can submit their work after feedback, helping to learn from mistakes and make improvements. This is a fantastic approach to create a positive mindset focused on growing and getting better.

How can you make assignments for Courses

The first step is to incorporate the assignment in your course, and then jot down your instructions in the assignment's page.

Before you make your assignment live, make sure you add an image of your choice, classify your content using tags and protect assignment access with Rules If necessary.

Stay with us to learn the steps for grading assignments through our NEW Gradebook add-on next! The video tutorial is detailed...

Make Assessment tasks easier with the NEW Gradebook

As an educator, you understand that teaching involves much more than delivering lectures. When your students are taken an interest in the subject or completed homework assignments, as well as took quizzes, it's the time to assess their efforts.

Previously, checking student progress meant navigating through each quiz individually to view participants who took the test, their answers, as well as scores.

Now, every course on your site is fitted with a Gradebook. Once students have completed exams or assignments, the activities are automatically logged into the Gradebook.

The Gradebook allows you to review and evaluate every student's assignments from one page. The Gradebook collects all assignments and tests in one location and makes it much easier to monitor and assess the performance of each student.

Three Reasons to Love this Gradebook Add-On

1. Simplifies Grad Management

The new Gradebook feature is all about making your life easier when it comes to handling grades.

It centralizes all aspects of your grades in an admin interface, eliminating the frustration of having to manage multiple spreadsheets or sifting through pages.

With everything in one spot it is easy to check how your students are doing in their work and tests. This does not just speed the process of grading but it also makes it easier and significantly less stressful.

2. Individual Classroom Tracking for Students and Teachers

With the Gradebook Add-on, you have access to instant, real-time reports which highlight individual students' progress as well as the overall performance in the class.

This dual overview helps you quickly identify trends as well as areas where students may need additional support and adapt your methods of teaching accordingly.

The Gradebook includes filtering as well as search options, making it easy to customize your experience of exams or assignments as well as student progression.

It is possible to view each student's submitted quizzes and assignments as well as their marks as well as their total score.

Knowing the patterns will allow you to modify your lessons to meet every student's requirements, making sure that every student receives the appropriate level of assistance to achieve.

3. Transparent Feedback

The Gradebook simplifies the process of your feedback and grading. It offers a detailed summary of the scores earned for each assignment and quiz, so both students and you can easily track progress.

This transparency helps in identifying areas in which students are performing well and where they may require more help.

It is also possible to award bonus points for standout work, providing a quick and effective method to reward and reward hard work.

What's especially useful for teachers is the personalized feedback section. Here, you can leave specific comments right next to the marks:

This setup lets you leave specific feedback to students that they can be able to match with their marks increasing both your instruction impact and their learning focus.

A well-organized Gradebook system helps you stay organized, and improves your ability to guide students on their learning process, thereby making the learning process more efficient and personalised.

How to Set Up and grade assignments using Gradebook

The time has come to put away that old-fashioned gradebook with its tiny texts and cramped columns! The Gradebook add-on introduces a fresh easy-to-use method for the process of grading.

It offers a simple, easy-to-navigate interface that not only improves how you look at student information and also speeds up your evaluation process. The interface provides an appealing, comprehensive and visually pleasing overview.

Inside your Gradebook, you'll find all of your grades neatly arranged: each student's completed quizzes and assignments, the grades you've assigned as well as their total scores - all displayed clearly in one central spot.

Plus, anything that hasn't been graded yet is clearly marked with the words "ungraded," making it simple to determine what requires to be your next focus.

Watch our complete video guide for step-by-step help with creating assignments and marking them within the course:

Conclusion

Prepare for a memorable school year by utilizing Courses the latest and best: the Assignmentsand Gradebookadd-ons.

These innovative tools are designed to streamline your course management and grading processes, freeing up your time to deliver a powerful education.

Thanks to the Assignments feature, students can easily submit their work directly via the website, and the Gradebookprovides a clear, organized system to keep track of grades as well as feedback.

Have you not set your classroom up yet? No worries! Just click below to begin and join the thousands of educators who are making online learning more dynamic and enjoyable.

What's the initial assignment you're going to add to your curriculum? Share your teaching suggestions with us in the comments section below!

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