Step One Click the Add submission button. Step Two Your instructor may request you to enter text online, submit a file(s), or both. After you have entered and/or uploaded your assignment, click the Save changes button. Step Three Review your submission. If you are satisfied with your assignment submission, click theSubmit assignment button. Step Four […]
Using a Scoring Rubric
Below the video are step by step instructions on setting up and using a scoring rubric. Rubrics are advanced grading forms used for criteria-based assessment. A scoring rubric can be attached to an assignment to help standardize scoring across multiple graders, and to provide clear expectations for students (if they […]
Setting Up an Assignment
To add an assignment: With the editing turned on, in the section you wish to add your assignment, click the Add an activity or resource link and choose Assignment from the popup menu. This will take you to the Assignment settings page titled “Adding a new assignment”. For an existing assignment, the following settings […]
Assignment Basics
An assignment ()allows teachers to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback including grades. The work students submit is visible only to the teacher and not to the other students unless a a group assignment is selected. One of the first decisions you will need to make is […]
What Spark Learn Activities Can Count Toward a Grade?
The most commonly graded activities are: Assignments Quizzes However, assignments and quizzes can be used for practice, participation, or in other ways, and if a teacher chooses, it is possible not to count assignments and quizzes in the gradebook. The following activities can have grades associated with them. How or […]
Add a URL (a Link)
Another type of resource you can add to a course page is a link, or a URL. This places a link to an outside resource, document, image, or video directly on the course page. Depending on how the link is set up, that link can then open within VSTAR, in […]
Add a Page
Add a Page Pages are resources that provide additional information in a new window. Most of the resources in this course are provided on pages. Pages allow a teacher to provide information, including images and video, links or sound, off of the main page of the course. A major advantage […]
Add a Label
There are many ways to provide information to students in VSTAR Learn. Each course has multiple topics, and each topic can have resources and assignments. If you would like to provide information to students in between any of these resources and assignments within a topic, on the topic’s main page, […]
Grading an Assignment – with a Rubric
After the deadline for an assignment, it is time to grade that assignment in VSTAR. To grade an assignment, click on “Assignments” in the Activities panel on the right hand side of the VSTAR Learn screen. Assignment Summary Page This will bring up a summary for the assignment, including the number […]
The “Choice” Activity (polling)
The choice activity module () enables a teacher to ask a single question and offer a selection of possible responses. It is similar to the Classroom Response System Turning Point. Choice results may be published after students have answered, after a certain date, or not at all. Results may be published […]