Creating an Assignment

Every assignment setting: marks, attempts, due dates, late penalty, attendance, result declaration, rubrics, peer evaluation and AI evaluation.

An assignment is a task learners complete outside Edmingle and submit as a file, a comment, or both. You then grade it by hand, with a rubric, with peer reviews or with AI help. This article covers every setting on the assignment screen and what learners see.

Add an assignment

Open the course's Modules tab, then the module and section where the assignment belongs.
Add a material and choose Assignment.
Fill in the sections below and click Save and Continue.

Some sections appear only when your plan includes them: Evaluation Criteria (rubrics and peer evaluation) and AI Evaluation.

1. Basic Details

Assignment Name: required, up to 100 characters.
Maximum Marks: required. The most a submission can score.
Passing Percentage: required, 0 to 100. The assignment counts toward course progress only once a learner's evaluated submission meets it.
Upload Assignment File: optional. One file learners download, such as a brief or a worksheet. PDF, DOC, XLS, XLSX, audio, video, ZIP, PY or IPYNB, up to 500 MB.

With a passing percentage of 0, the assignment counts as passed as soon as it is submitted, before anyone grades it. See How Materials Are Marked Complete.

2. Rules & Instructions

Maximum Attempts: Unlimited, or 1 to 10. Each submission uses one attempt.
Make this a prerequisite: learners cannot move on to the next lessons until they complete this assignment.
General Instruction: rich text explaining what learners must do and how to submit.
Require Minimum Attendance: learners can submit only when their attendance in the relevant batch meets the threshold you enter (a whole number from 0 to 100). After saving, use Configure Attendance Waivers to exempt individual learners, with an optional reason.

3. Result Declaration

Choose when learners see their marks:

Auto-Declare upon evaluation (default): learners see their result as soon as you mark the submission as evaluated.
Hold results until manually approved: results stay hidden until an admin declares them from the batch's submissions.

4. Due Dates and Extensions

Due Date: when on, learners cannot submit after the due date. Click Configure Due Dates to set a date for each batch. Filter by branch, and select two or more batches to apply one date with Bulk Action.
Extend Due Date for Learners: give selected learners more time than their batch's due date. Click Configure Individual Extensions, choose a batch, and set a new due date per learner. Save the assignment first.
Allow Late Submissions (when a due date is on): learners can still submit after the due date, and late submissions are highlighted on the submissions tab.
Late penalty: deduct marks for late submissions. Enter a value greater than 0, choose Marks or Percent, and choose how often it applies: once, each day or each hour past the learner's due date. A score never goes below 0. Learners see the penalty before they submit and an explanation on their result.

5. Evaluation Criteria

Shown when your plan includes rubrics or peer evaluation.

Enable Rubrics

A rubric breaks marking into criteria. For each criterion, the evaluator picks the level that best describes the work. Switch on Enable Rubrics, then Select Template to reuse a saved rubric, or click Create New Rubric:

Rubric Name: required, up to 120 characters.
Criteria: 1 to 20. Each has a Criterion Title (up to 120 characters), a Weight in percent, and an optional description (up to 500 characters) that learners can see.
Levels: 2 to 10 per criterion. Each level has a unique name (up to 80 characters), points (no more than that criterion's maximum marks), and an optional description of what work at that level looks like.

Weights across all criteria must add up to 100%. Auto-balance Weights splits 100% equally across all criteria, and caps any level points that exceed a criterion's new maximum.

Enable Peer Evaluation

Learners review each other's submissions after the due date.

Turn on Due Date and set Maximum Marks first. Peer evaluation cannot be switched on without them.
Switch on Enable Peer Evaluation.
Choose No. of Peer Reviewers: how many peers review each submission, from 1 to 10 (default 3).
Under Evaluation Deadline, click Configure Due Dates and set a peer evaluation end date for each batch. It must be later than that batch's due date.

How it runs:

Once a batch's due date passes, Edmingle assigns each submission to reviewers. If late submissions are off, only learners who submitted are reviewers. If they are on, any active learner in the batch can be a reviewer.
Learners find their reviews under Peer Evaluations. They score each submission against the rubric (if one is enabled) or enter marks out of the maximum, and can add comments.
When you grade, the average of the peer scores is shown to you as a suggested mark. The learner's official mark is the one you save.

Peer evaluation settings lock once the earliest batch due date has passed, because reviews have already been assigned. If you use a rubric with peer evaluation, every criterion needs at least 2 levels.

6. AI Evaluation

Shown when AI is enabled for your account. Veda AI pre-evaluates submissions against your instructions, rubric and reference answers.

Enable AI Evaluation: switch it on for this assignment. If AI Evaluation is turned off in your AI settings, you will see a note asking you to turn it on there first.
Evaluation Instructions: up to 500 characters. Tell the AI what to look for and how to score.
Answersheet: optional reference answers. DOC, DOCX, PDF, TXT, PY or IPYNB, up to 10 MB.

Evaluations appear for you within 24 hours of submission, and learners do not see them unless you publish them. Only PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, PY and IPYNB submissions are evaluated. Credits are deducted for each page of a learner's submission. For more, see Setting Up AI Evaluation on an Assignment.

What learners see

The assignment card shows the maximum marks, passing percentage, submissions left and any due date. If you attached a file, learners can Download Assignment File.
If late submissions carry a penalty, the card warns them how many marks will be deducted.
Learners upload one file, add comments, or both, and click Submit. Files can be up to 500 MB, and several files must be zipped into one.
After evaluation, they see their marks and your feedback, depending on your Result Declaration setting.

Learners cannot submit if the due date has passed (without late submissions), their attempts are used up, or their attendance is below the threshold. The card tells them which.

What's next

To review submissions, see Grading Assignments. For coding tasks that are marked automatically, see Creating a Programming Assignment.