Working with Assignments
Assignments (web-based, if enabled)
Course Insite ®
classes may have assignments associated to the classes. Those
assignments are found by Viewing the Class Table of Contents of Web Based
Training classes as is shown below:
To access the appropriate
assignment, the participant selects the box to the far right in the
assignment column (highlighted in red). Theassignment column will have
various icons within that columns displaying your progress as shown in
the table below:
Icon Descriptions
Assignments (Instuctor-Led)
Instructor-led
training does not display assignments in a Table Of Contents view, but
rather in the Student Portfolio, as is shown below:
Accessing Assignments
In order for you to access your assignment, click on the
icon to take you to the list of assigned materials from your instructor.
The list will then be displayed as depicted below:
Once here, you should click on the icon, in this case the assigned Word document with the hourglass to right of the Date Due.
Assignment Handling
When
you are given an assignment, you should access the assignments as
detailed above and read and perform the work as instructed. Assignments
may come in a variety of file formats, HTML, Acrobat (PDF), Word (doc),
Excel (xls), Powerpoint (ppt) or any of a wide variety of multimedia
formats (wma, mp3, rm, etc.). Any file format that an assignment requires which is
non-standard will be handled through Getting Plugins for a Class by your instructor.
Whatever
type of work that is requested from your assignment, the assignment
interface (depicted below) will allow you to retrieve, upload, store
and work on your assigned material prior to the due date of your
assignment.
You can upload your work in progress by:
- Typing a description in the Notes section,
- Browse to your current work file
- click on Save Changes
- Your last upload of your assignment in progress can always be accessed through the current file link, this allows you quick access to a stored copy of your assignment should you lose your work in progress for any reason
To edit your work, simply click on the edit link to retrieve your assignment in-progress. When you are satisfied with your work, you may click the link to turn-in your assignment for review by your instructor.
