Assignment Settings allow you to customize how an assignment behaves before, during, and after students complete it. From changing the due date to controlling student access and grading, you can manage every stage of an assignment from one place.

To access these options:

You'll then see a range of customizable settings to help tailor the assignment experience, outlined below:

You can easily change your assignment title here at anytime. You can even include emojis!

Here you can describe the task and expected learning goals/objectives for the assignment.

Set, change, or remove a due date at any time. Assignments remain open after the due date passes. Late submissions are marked with a calendar icon and an exclamation mark (!).

Choose how you'd like your assignment to be graded:

If grading via points, you can choose the maximum number of points allocated to the assignment.

Choose whether or not you'd like to add the assignment to your class gradebook by toggling the setting on or off.

Once your assignment has been graded, you can export student grades as a spreadsheet for use outside Showbie.

Choose how students interact with the assignment:

Find out the different types of student access here.

Automatically change student access on specific dates. This way, after a certain date, student access will change so you can easily keep track of due dates.

For example, you can:

You can copy an assignment to another class. This can be useful when you want to keep the same materials for a new semester, for example. Check out this guide for more!

Archive assignments you no longer need to keep your class organized. Archived assignments are removed from the active assignment list but aren't deleted, so they can be restored later if needed. Learn more about archiving here.