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# How to create an assignment?

# Intro of assignment management feature

Transforming one-way course instruction into interactive feedback, you can achieve this through “assignments”.

Teachify's current **“Assignment Management”** features include:

* Multiple assignments can be created for each course.
* Assignments can be set with or without a submission deadline (specifying a specific date).
* When creating an assignment, attachments can be included (e.g. video, text, and image files).
* Grading by star ratings, comments, and uploaded files (currently limited to PDF & DOC formats).
* Students can be designated to submit written content or attach files (currently limited to PDF & DOC formats).
* Enable/ disable the assignment discussion forum.
* Notification automatically send out to course administrators when a student submits an assignment.
* Notification automatically send out to students when their assignments have been graded.

# How to setup an assignment?

1. Go to the Teachify dashboard and click on `Courses` under **"Products"** section on the left side. 
Then click on the desired course to which the assignment belongs.

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2. You can find `Assignment` under **"Content"** section on left side.
Click **"New Assignment"** and **enter the assignment name** to get into the editing page.


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3. Next is to edit the rules and instructions for the assignment:

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* Description: You can use the editor function to write clear assignment-related information. 
Students can see the assignment description in the course assignments in the learning center ▼ 

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* Start time and deadline: If the "deadline" is not filled in, the assignment has no submission deadline.

* Upload assignment attachment: Provide students with assignment attachments.

* Whether to allow comments: There is a comment area in the assignment submission area for students to ask and answer questions.

* Whether to publish: After publishing, students will see it in the "Course Assignments". 

* You can also regulate the format of the assignment submitted by students including **whether to require filling in the content** and **whether to provide attachment files when submitting assignments**.

|| At present, only PDF and DOC formats are available for submitting files. If students need to provide "pictures/photos", they can be guided to directly upload pictures on the editor. 

After editing the above information, you can click `Update`.

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