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Easily distribute, analyze, and grade student work with Assignments for your LMS

Assignments is an application for your learning management system (LMS). It helps educators save time grading and guides students to turn in their best work with originality reports — all through the collaborative power of Google Workspace for Education.

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Make Google Docs and Google Drive compatible with your LMS

Simplify assignment management with user-friendly Google Workspace productivity tools

Built with the latest Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standards for robust security and easy installation in your LMS

Save time distributing and grading classwork

Distribute personalized copies of Google Drive templates and worksheets to students

Grade consistently and transparently with rubrics integrated into student work

Add rich feedback faster using the customizable comment bank

Examine student work to ensure authenticity

Compare student work against hundreds of billions of web pages and over 40 million books with originality reports

Make student-to-student comparisons on your domain-owned repository of past submissions when you sign up for the Teaching and Learning Upgrade or Google Workspace for Education Plus

Allow students to scan their own work for recommended citations up to three times

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“Assignments enable faculty to save time on the mundane parts of grading and...spend more time on providing more personalized and relevant feedback to students.” Benjamin Hommerding , Technology Innovationist, St. Norbert College

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The first time you use Assignments in a course, you must link your Google Workspace for Education account to the learning management system (LMS). For details, go to Link your account to Assignments .

The first time you use Assignments in a course, you must link your Google Workspace for Education account to the learning management system (LMS).

• Open your LMS.

• Click Link .

Check that you're using your Google Workspace for Education account given to you by your institution. Make sure you’re not trying to sign in with a personal email account.

• Enable third-party cookies on your device, and then try to link your account. 
• If you can, in your LMS, always choose Open assignment in new window .

Learn how to turn on third-party cookies . 

When you create a new collaboration, use the Google Workspace for Education account your institution provided. Do not sign in with a personal email account.

When you view or edit a collaboration, use your Google Workspace for Education account or a personal Google Account.

Creating and reviewing assignments

The first time you use Assignments in a course, you must link your Google Workspace for Education account to the LMS. For more information, go to Link your account to Assignments .

You can restore the student's file from your Google Drive Trash. For more information, go to Find or recover a file .

If you emptied your Trash and can’t find the file, ask your Google Workspace for Education administrator to restore the file.

If your admin can’t restore the assignment, ask your student to unsubmit their assignment and resubmit the backup copy from their Assignments folder in Drive.

• Use Assignments LTI version 1.3 for best results.
• Make sure the person who copies the course is in the same Google Workspace for Education organization as the course creator or is on the organization’s allowlist. Learn more about how to manage your organization’s allowlists .
• Don’t edit or delete the original assignment or its attachments.

Assignments grading

Grade passback can be unsuccessful if:

• Your admin set up the LMS to not allow grade passback.
• Your LMS is behind a firewall that blocks grade passback requests from Assignments.

Send feedback about Assignments

Yes. Your feedback helps us improve our products. To share feedback about Assignments:

• Open an assignment.

• Enter your message.
• (Recommended) To send a screenshot, check the Include screenshot box.
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Google Assignments, your new grading companion

Aug 14, 2019

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Instructors lose valuable time doing cumbersome tasks: writing the same comment on multiple essays, returning piles of paper assignments, and battling copy machine jams. These frustrations are most often felt by instructors with the highest teaching workloads and the least time. For the last five years, we’ve been building tools—like Classroom and Quizzes in Google Forms—to address these challenges. Now you can take advantage of these tools if you use a traditional Learning Management System (LMS). 

Assignments brings together the capabilities of Google Docs, Drive and Search into a new tool for collecting and grading student work. It helps you save time with streamlined assignment workflows, ensure student work is authentic with originality reports, and give constructive feedback with comment banks. You can use Assignments as a standalone tool and a companion to your LMS (no setup required!) or your school admin can integrate it with your LMS. Sign up today to try Assignments.

If you're one of the 40 million people using Classroom: you've got the best of Assignments already baked in, including our new originality reports . For everyone else, Assignments gives you access to these features as a compliment to your school’s LMS. 

Assignments is your tireless grading companion

Using an LMS can create more work than it saves: students turn in all kinds of files, you have to download and re-upload student files one-by-one, and what if students can keep editing after they already turned in their work? Assignments handles all this for you.

Assignments streamlines the creation and management of coursework, and tackles some of your biggest frustrations:

Stop typing the same feedback over and over by using a comment bank, and never worry about pressing the “save” button again

Check student work for originality and automatically lock work once it’s turned in

Assign files with the option to send each student a copy (no more copy machines!)

Grade assignments for an entire class with a student switcher and rubrics, and review any file type without leaving your grading interface

Comment and leave suggestions on student work with Google Docs

Instructors and students can attach anything to assignments: Docs or Word files for papers, spreadsheets for data analysis, slides for presentations, sites for digital portfolios or final projects, Colab notebooks for programming exercises, and much more. 

Help students turn in their best work with originality reports

With originality reports in Assignments, you can check student work for missed citations and possible plagiarism without interrupting your grading workflow. When students turn in a document, Assignments will check students’ text against hundreds of billions of web pages and tens of millions of books. 

If you enable originality reports on an assignment, students can also check their work for authenticity (a limited number of times) to correct issues, turn in their best work, and save instructors time grading. Since both you and your students can see originality reports, they’re designed to help you teach your students about authenticity and academic integrity. 

Getting started with Assignments

Starting today, you can sign up to get access to Assignments when it becomes available in a few weeks. Assignments will be available for free as part of G Suite for Education and can be used by instructors alongside or integrated with an LMS. 

Instructors can use Assignments even if your school has an LMS. There’s no setup required, all you need is to sign up and have a school-issued Google account. 

Admins can turn on access to Assignments within your LMS. Assignments is available as an LTI tool, which provides a more integrated experience and enables roster syncing and grade transmission to your LMS gradebook. Assignments is an improved and expanded version of Course Kit, so if you’re already in the Course Kit beta, you’ll automatically have access to Assignments. 

If you use Canvas, we’ve worked with their team to complement the Assignments LTI tool with a set of additional features that make Docs and Drive work seamlessly across all Canvas assignments. 

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Save time grading. Provide feedback that counts. Quickly and securely create, analyze, and grade coursework, while helping students learn more effectively.

• Create, grade, and analyze coursework directly within Canvas
• Let students access Assignments and submit work via Canvas
• Automatically sync grades to your Canvas gradebook

Create and share coursework with ease

Generate new assignments using Docs and Drive, and provide each student with a unique copy. Using the Canvas integration with Google Assignments the sharing and ownership of these documents happens automatically.

Help students develop authentic work

Generate originality reports using the power of Search. Assignments scans student submissions for matching text on the web, right in your grading interface. And students can run their own reports before submitting to help cite and strengthen their work.

Simplify grading and provide rich feedback - all in one place

Pull up frequently used feedback from your comment bank when engaging students with in-line edits and two-way commenting. You can also apply rubrics to keep grading transparent. Assignments makes it easy and secure to accept Docs and Drive files by automatically adjusting permissions to prevent student editing during grading.

Provide students with tools that support active learning

Google Assignments provides capabilities that can help students improve their writing skills, work more efficiently and turn in stronger assignments.

• Originality reports
• Always-visible word count
• Spellcheck and grammar suggestions
• Two-way commenting
• Version Control

Create assignments in Canvas with Google Assignments

• Go to your Canvas course.
• Click Assignments, create an assignment.
• Enter a name and description for your assignment.
• (Optional) Enter a point value and due date.
• Under Submission Type , select External Tool click Find .
• Select Google Assignments .
• Deselect Load This Tool In A New Tab .
• Click Publish .

Note : If this is the first time you're using Google Assignments in Canvas, you must link your Canvas account to your Google Account.

Linking Your Google Assignments Account with Your Canvas Account

The first time you use Google Assignments, you sign in with your F&M Google Account. Linking your account allows Google Assignments to create a folder in your Google Drive for student assignments and to send grades to Canvas.

You only have to link your Google Account once per course, while creating your first assignment. Students can't submit classwork until this step is completed.

Note : In Google Assignments, you can link only to your F&M Google account.

• Open the first assignment you created for the course.
• Click Sign In and sign in to your F&M Google account.
• To link Canvas to your Google Account, click Link Account .
• To link the course to your Google Account, click Link Account .
• If you're signed in to multiple accounts and need to switch between Google Accounts, click Switch Account , or sign in to your F&M Google account.

Attach template files to an assignment

You can attach files to as assignment so each student receives an individual copy to edit and turn in.

Example attachments include:

• Google Docs or Microsoft Word files for paper prompts
• PDFs for worksheets
• Sheets for data analysis
• Slides for presentations
• Sites for digital portfolios or final project templates
• Colab notebooks for programming exercises
• In Canvas, select your course and create an assignment.
• Click Google Assignments , which will open a popup window
• If this is your first time using Google Assignments in the course, confirm your Google Account.
• Select Create assignment .
• Under Title , enter a name for the assignment.
• Under Files , click Attach and select files.
• Click Create . The Assignments window will close.
• Click Select to finish selecting the external tool.

Create or reuse a rubric for an assignment

In Google Assignments, you can create, reuse, view, and grade rubrics for individual assignments. You can give feedback with scored or unscored rubrics. If you use scored rubrics, students see their score when you return their work.

• Within your Canvas course assignment...→ click Open in Assignments.
• Next to No rubric , click Add rubric Create rubric .
• To turn off scoring for the rubric, next to Use scoring , click Turn off .
• (Optional) If you turned on scoring, next to Sort the order of points by , select how to view the criteria, either descending or ascending in value.
• Note : You can enter levels in any order, and rubrics automatically sorts the levels by value.
• Under Criterion , enter your first criterion. For example, enter Grammar , Teamwork , or Citations .
• (Optional) To add a criterion description, click More Add criterion description enter the description.
• Under Points , enter the number of points awarded for the performance level.
• Note : The rubric's total score automatically updates as you add points.
• Under Level , enter a level of performance. For example, enter Excellent , Full mastery , or Level B .
• Under Description , enter the performance expectations.
• To add another performance level to the criterion, click Add a level and repeat steps 8–9.
• To add a blank criterion, in the bottom-left corner, click Add a criterion and repeat steps 6–11.
• To copy a criterion, in the bottom-right corner, click Duplicate criterion and repeat steps 6–11.
• To rearrange criteria, in a criterion’s box, click More select Move criterion up or Move criterion down .
• To save your rubric, in the bottom-right corner, click Save .

→ More information on Rubrics.

Turn on Originality reports

You and your students can check work for unoriginal content with Originality reports. This tool uses Google Search to compare students' Google Docs against billions of webpages and millions of books. Originality reports then displays links to the detected webpages and flags uncited text.

The reports can:

• Help students identify unintentional plagiarism and uncited content before submitting assignments.
• Help instructors see where students used source material and if they properly documented their sources.

When you turn on Originality reports for an assignment, students can run 3 reports per assignment before submitting their work. You can’t see the reports students run. After students run their last report, they can continue to improve their work before submitting the assignment.

After the student turns in their work, Google Assignments automatically runs an originality report for each submitted Docs file, visible only to you. If a student unsubmits and resubmits an assignment, Assignments runs another originality report.

Originality reports are viewable for 45 days. After that, you can run another report by opening the student's submission from within the Assignments grading tool.

To learn how an originality report analyzes work, go to How an originality report is created .

Note : The Originality report is available only for Google Docs in English. If a student uploads a Microsoft Word file, Google Assignments and automatically convert it to a Google Doc and a copy of the original Word file is included in the submission.

Turn on Originality reports within Canvas

• Create/edit an assignment in Canvas → click Open in Assignments .
• Next to Originality reports , check the box.

Open an Originality report

• Click the course.
• Click the assignment → Open in Assignments → the student's document.
• The file opens in the grading tool.
• To view the report, under Files , click # of flagged passages .

How instructors and students share files

When you create an assignment, you can attach files such as Google Docs, PDFs, or other materials for students to work on.

For example, you might include:

• A Docs essay assignment
• A PDF worksheet
• A reference image

After you publish the assignment, students work on the files and can add their own materials. When students turn in their work, you can review and grade their work and files.

As you exchange files with students, Google Assignments automatically transfers ownership and updates file permissions to View only or Edit access. When you receive student work, edit access transfers to you. When you return the work, edit access transfers to the student.

Workflow in Action

• Result : Copies of attached files are made for each student. File ownership transfers to the student. Instructors can't view or edit the files.
• Result : File ownership temporarily transfers to the instructor. Student can’t edit or view their files.
• Result : File ownership transfers back to the student, and the student's editing rights are restored.
• Optional : Student can edit and resubmit assignment.

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Google Assignments integration with Canvas allows instructors to create assignments utilizing Google Drive and the associated suite of Google tools. Utilizing Google Assignments allows you to create or attach a file which is copied into each student’s Google drive, allowing them to work individually and submit the assignment via Google drive.

A new version of the Canvas Google Assignments integration was implemented in May, 2024. If you’ve been using the Google Assignments integration through external tools you will notice a few changes. 

• You can find Google Assignments under its new listing on the External Tools menu: Google Assignments (LTI 1.3).
• If a migrated course from a previous year includes assignments created with the prior Google Assignment integration, it should still allow students to submit their work through a Google file as before. 
• Also, please note that students no longer need to be signed into their BC Google accounts to submit assignments; Canvas login is sufficient to give them access to the assignment and its submission options. 

In addition to the changes discussed above, the new Google assignments’ integration includes the following changes. 

• Google Assignments now includes Google slides as well as docs and spreadsheets as a file option during the assignment creation or submission process. Additionally, you can attach most non-Google file formats to the assignment, but Google Assignments does not support the creation of non-Google file formats.
• Instructor’s can use version tracking in Google to see the progress of student work.
• The Google assignments grading tool combines full options for annotation with a grading panel similar to the one in Speedgrader.
• Please note, Google assignments does not include support for group assignments.

For more information, see the following resources

• Creating & Grading Google Assignments
• Google Assignment Guide for Students

Getting Started with Google Assignments

Google Assignments is an add-on application for learning management systems (LMS) that helps you distribute, analyze, and grade student work with G Suite for Education.

Assignments makes Google Docs and Google Drive compatible with Canvas for file submissions. You can use Assignments to save time distributing and grading student work, and you can use the originality reports feature to analyze student submissions for authenticity.

Features and benefits of Assignments

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• Assign and collect virtually any file type, including Google Docs and Microsoft® Word files.
• Each distributed copy will be labeled with a student’s name and organized in a Drive folder.
• Assess student work for originality without leaving your grading tool.
• Searches hundreds of billions of web pages and 40 million books.
• Help students learn to support their ideas by letting them scan their work for missed citations up to three times before submitting.
• Prevent students from editing their work while you grade.
• Grade with rubrics to keep grading consistent and transparent.
• Give rich feedback and suggestions on student work using the power of Google Docs, including margin comments, strikethroughs, and highlighting.
• Easily reuse frequent margin comments with a personalized comment bank.
• Grades save to the LMS gradebook.

You can attach files to an assignment so each student receives an individual copy to edit and turn in. Example attachments include Google Docs or Microsoft® Word® files for paper prompts, PDFs for worksheets, Google Sheets for data analysis, Google Slides for presentations, and more.

To attach files to an assignment, click the “Attach” button and select files while creating the assignment.

Learn more about attaching template files to an assignment .

Originality Reports

You and your students can use originality reports to check work for authenticity. When you run an originality report, it compares a student’s Google Docs file against web pages and books on the internet and against other students’ documents submitted using Google Assignments through Canvas@UD. The report links to detected sources and flags uncited text. Originality reports are only available for G Suite for Education accounts set to English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Originality reports search all pages accessible by Google Search and Google Books. However, Google Scholar isn’t included in an originality search. Originality reports also search scholarly journals that are available on Google Search. Google Assignments will also check against other student documents submitted using Google Assignments through Canvas@UD. Google Assignments don’t store student work in a repository to check against external institutions. No other instructor can see your students’ assignments. Furthermore, originality reports run by the student don’t compare against other student submissions in the institution.

The report flags passages that are similar to text found on a webpage that the student didn’t cite or quote. The flagged passage shows the text from the external source and a link to the webpage. Originality reports don’t evaluate citation formatting or verify the source of the text. The instructor must determine whether content was correctly cited. Originality reports can determine if a student used tricky text. It will notify you if multiple scripts are present in an assignment when 6 or more non-text characters are found.

Learn more about originality reports and privacy .

Learn more about activating, creating or viewing originality reports .

• When you turn on originality reports for an assignment, students can run 3 reports on that assignment before submitting their work. 
• You can’t see the reports students run. After students run their last report, they can continue to improve their work before submitting the assignment. 
• You can view originality reports for 45 days . After that, you can run another report in the grading tool.
• When students turn in their work, Assignments automatically runs an originality report for each submitted Docs file, visible only to you . 
• If a student unsubmits and resubmits an assignment, Assignments runs another originality report for the instructor. 
• If a student uploads a Microsoft Word file, Assignments automatically converts it to a Google Docs file, runs the originality report, and includes the original Word file in the submission. 
• If you added a Word file as a template in the assignment, Assignments won’t convert the file or run a report when the student submits their work.

Grading assignments

Once a student submits their assignment, their permissions change to View , and the instructor owns the file. The file stays in the student’s Drive, but can’t be edited until returned by the instructor or unsubmitted by the student.

A student can unsubmit and resubmit work before a due date. For example, if a student realizes they submitted the wrong file, they can unsubmit it, and then upload the correct one. Students can’t unsubmit their work after a due date. For student privacy, unsubmitted assignments appear as NOT turned in to the instructor.

Students can attach any file type to their assignment, including, Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides, Microsoft®️ Word®️, Excel®️, or PowerPoint®️, PDF, Image files, Text files and Video files.

Note: Assignments automatically converts Microsoft Office®️ files to a Google format, then saves a copy of the files to your Google Drive in the Assignments folder.

In Assignments, you can create, reuse, view, grade, and share rubrics for individual assignments. You can give feedback with scored or unscored rubrics. If you use scored rubrics, students see their score when you return their work. You can create up to 50 criteria per rubric and up to 10 performance levels per criterion.

Note: The rubrics associated with Google Assignment are different from the rubrics in Canvas.

Learn how to create or reuse a rubric for an assignment .

Does Assignments work on mobile devices? Assignments is available only in web browsers, and works best on browsers running on computers and tablets.

Does Assignments support peer review of assignments? No , Assignments doesn’t have a feature for peer review. However, you can create a peer review workflow. Here’s how:

• Ask your students to start their assignments in Docs.
• Tell students to share their files with their peer reviewer.
• In Docs, peer reviewers leave margin comments and suggestions.
• Have students turn in their assignments, leaving in the reviewer’s comments and suggestions. Alternatively, students can review, implement, and resolve reviewer comments and instructors can view version history.
• Grade the assignments.
• (Optional) Record a separate grade for peer reviews.

Does Assignments support group assignments? No, Assignments doesn’t have settings for group assignments. However, you can create a group project workflow. Follow these steps:

• Tell each group to create a Google Doc and share it with group members for editing. 
• Have the owner of the file submit the assignment for grading.
• Grade the assignment, leaving overall feedback as a margin comment or suggestion. Note: The overall feedback field is visible only to the owner of the file and not to the group.
• In your gradebook, record the grade for the other group members.

Will Assignments work in a course copied to a new Canvas site? Yes, assignments set up in Google Assignments work in a course copied to Canvas. When you copy a course, the following is copied over: 

• Total points
• Settings for originality reports
• Attachments

How do you see all of your linked courses and assignments? Go to https://assignments.google.com/u/1/assignments/ca to view all your linked courses and assignments. Instructors who own courses can delete the courses and assignments. Students can leave a course to unlink their Google Account from that course.

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Google Assignments is an external tool within Canvas Assignments that allows you to distribute, review, and grade student work with G Suite for Education .  With Assignments,  you can virtually assign and collect any file type, including Google Docs and Microsoft Word files.  You can also attach assignment files that will automatically distribute a personalized copy for each student.  Each distributed copy will be labeled with a student’s name and organized in a Drive folder.  Finally, grades from Google Assignments will also save to Canvas Grades. 

Activating a Google Assignment in Canvas

• Create a new Canvas Assignment

For Instructors: 

• Attach template files to Assignments
• Create or reuse a rubric for an assignment
• Originality reports
• How instructors and students share files
• Open and review assignments
• Give feedback on assignments
• View an originality report
• Grade with a rubric
• Grade and return an assignment
• Originality reports and privacy
• Troubleshooting

For Students:

• Open an Assignment
• Start, revise and submit assignments
• Check your work with rubrics
• Run an originality check on your work
• Read an originality report on your work
• See returned assignments

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What is google assignments.

Google Assignments is an add-on application for learning management systems such as Blackboard that helps you distribute, analyze, and grade student work while leveraging the convenience of Google Docs and Google Drive for file submissions. Instructors can assign personalized Google Docs templates and worksheets to students, and students are able to submit their work in a variety of document and media file types. Each distributed copy of the assignment is labeled with the student’s name and automatically organized into folders in Google Drive.

Google Assignments enables you to provide substantive and timely feedback to your students. The application prevents students from editing their documents while you are grading, allows you to use rubrics and Google Docs features such as commenting, highlighting, and strikethrough for substantive feedback, and saves grades automatically into Blackboard’s Grade Center.

Who can use it?

Google Assignments is available to all BU faculty and students. It is enabled by default on both Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Ultra. Instructors will create a Google Assignment, which will create a submission portal for students and a submission management interface for instructors.

• Create templates using Google Docs for students to use. Assign due dates, point value, and offer assignment descriptions. Google Assignments automatically creates a column in your Blackboard Grade Center.
• Allows students to submit Google Docs directly in Blackboard. Once students submit their assignments, ownership transfers to the instructor so students cannot make changes after submitting. Ownership transfers back to students once the instructor releases grades and comments. Supports revision assignments, where students can resubmit work after receiving substantive feedback.
• Create rubrics, add comments, input grades, and utilize powerful Google features for comments and substantive feedback. Save rubrics and comments across assignments.
• Instructors can enable an originality report for up to 3 assignments per course. The originality report uses Google’s search engine to scan for plagiarism. Note: this does not check student work against other student work–it only checks the web.
• Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides
• Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
• Image files
• Video files (WEBM, MPEG4, 3GPP, MOV, AVI, MPEG-PS, WMV, FLV, OGG)
• Assignments, a G Suite product, supports the latest version of Chrome and the current and previous releases of Firefox, and Safari.

How do I access Google Assignments?

• Faculty and students should make sure to Enable their BU Google Account .
• The first time faculty and students access Google Assignments in Blackboard, they will need to link their Google Drive account to Google Assignments. This will happen within Blackboard.
• On Blackboard Learn, instructors can create a Google Assignment by navigating to a Content Area, clicking the Build Content dropdown menu, and choosing the Google Assignments option.
• On Blackboard Ultra, instructors can create a Google Assignment by navigating to the View Course & Institution Tools link on the left hand sidebar. This will open a window on the right hand side of the browser. Scroll down and click Browse all Course Tools . This will open up a pop-up browser with all tools available for Blackboard Ultra. Select Google Assignments from this list to create a Google Assignment.
• On both Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Ultra, students will access Google Assignments just like they would any normal Blackboard or Turnitin Assignment—through a dedicated submission interface.
• Do not access Google Assignments through https://assignments.google.com/ . This will not sync with your course roster and will be unavailable January 2021.
• Check out the Google Assignments Documentation Page or the Google Assignments User Community .
• Consult this Guide to Using Google Assignments , produced by DL&I .
• View this video tutorial on using Google Assignments, produced by DL&I .
• Attend a training session on Google Assignments.
• Schedule a consult by emailing [email protected] .
• Contact the IT Help Center if you have any questions or require assistance.

Using Google Assignments with Blackbaud

Google Assignments integrates Google Workspace for Education with Blackbaud Learning Management System , allowing teachers to seamlessly grade, review, and comment on assignments in Google from assignments within Blackbaud . Grades added in Google pass through to the teacher's Gradebook and students can view their submitted work with any grades or comments provided by the teacher. Teachers can also check for plagiarism on assignments submitted to Google Assignments .

Note: To learn more about Google Assignments , check out their site .

An Integration Manager must set up the Google Assignments integration for their entire school. First, sign into your school-issued Google account and select Generate New Pair followed by Other LMS to get the Consumer key and Shared secret .

In Blackbaud Education Management , select Core , then Settings , Integration settings , Learning tools . Select Add provider and enter the following information:

Provider type : Other provider

Select LTI 1.1 tool

Provider name : Google Assignments

Description : optional

Status : Active

Available on : Google Assignments can be used for Assignments and Topics .

Returns grades : Yes

Note: Gradepass will only work for Assignments .

Display Setings : Select Displays in new window or Display in iFrame for teachers and students launching the tool fro assignments.

Connection information : Fixed

Launch URL : https://assignments.google.com/lti/a

Consumer key : From Google Assignments

Shared secret : From Google Assignments

Privacy settings : Must be set to Always or Https Only

Given name : Choose to send Preferred name sent, if available or First name, always .

When creating an assignment, a teacher can select Google Assignments under the Learning tool section of the assignment settings to link the assignment to Google Assignments . The first time a teacher assigns a Google Assignment , they will need to link their Blackbaud account to their Google account. To do this, the teacher can save the assignment, then select the assignment name to open the assignment details. In the assignment details, selecting Launch opens the prompt to link the teacher's Blackbaud account to their Google account.

Note: Teachers do not need to enable In-system submission under File submission in the assignment settings within Blackbaud Learning Management System . Enabling this option in Blackbaud allows students to upload file submissions that are not linked to the Google Assignment .

Once students have submitted their files in Google Assignment , the teacher can review, comment, and grade the assignment in Google from the Assignment detail page in Blackbaud . From the Assignment Center or the class Assignments tab, the teacher selects the assignment name and then selects Launch to open Google Assignments . From here, the teacher can select a student's submitted work to review, comment and grade the assignment. When finished, the teacher selects Return to return the assignment to the student.

Tip: The first time a student accesses a Google Assignment , they will need to link their Google account to their Blackbaud Education Management account. We recommend students use their school-issued Google account if available.

From the Assignment Center or the class Assignments tab, a student selects the assignment name, then Launch to open the assignment in Google Assignments . From here, the student selects Add files to open their Google Drive and choose from existing files or upload new ones. The student selects a file they want to submit, then selects Add , followed by Submit .

Note: Students can Unsubmit files if needed.

Yes! Grades pass FROM Google Assignments TO Blackbaud . The sync does not work the other way around. If you are not seeing grades pass from Google to Blackbaud , it is most likely due to one of the following reasons: 

The Integration Manager did not select Return grades when setting up the learning tool.

Your school may be using a firewall that blocks grade passback requests from assignments.

The grade was updated directly in Blackbaud and you need to update the grade in Google Assignments .

The first time a teacher sets up a Google Assignments assignment, they need to select the title for the assignment and then select Launch on the Assignment details page . They will need to link their Blackbaud account to their Google account before they are dropped into Google Assignments . If a teacher hasn't connected their Blackbaud account to their Google account, students may receive this error.

Students can submit and resubmit assignments as often as needed until the assignment due date.

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