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In this video we're going to look at editing assignments in the JiTTDL Hosting service.
We'll cover how you put questions into an assignment and how you deploy that assignment to students.
You should already be logged in and have chosen a term, a course and a section (if needed).
Click on Edit Assignments in the upper-right toolbar.
Now you'll see a list of lessons appear in the left-side toolbar.
For this sample course there are 15 lessons, but you can have as many as you want in your course.
My advice is to have as many lessons as there class meetings. This helps students navigate the site.
On days when there is no warm up assignment you can just put in a brief message to that effect.
Choose the lesson you want to work with.
I'm going to choose Lesson 2, and then I'm going to scroll my window so we can see all the items that have just appeared.
Up here we have the header information.
This includes a title and message area, as well as the availability dates.
Lets edit these items by clicking on this edit button in the header area.
In the title field I recommend reminding them which sections to read for this warm up and entering some kind of topic title for the day.
The "Message to Students" field gives us a chance to talk about one important aspect of all the text you will create at JiTTDL.
Everything you enter will be interpreted as HTML code.
If you only want to enter simple text you can basically ignore this, but if you want any formatting at all,
even just italics or breaks between lines of text, you are going to have to deal with a few HTML tags.
In this case, if you enter something with no HTML at all, the message to students will end up looking like this,
with blue text on a yellow background.
If on the other hand you use something like my default header, shown here, it will end up looking like this.
With multiple lines, and some font effects on the first line, which is a deadline reminder.
The good news is that I would encourage you to figure out (and store elsewhere) a default message
that you can paste here for all assignments. That way you can get it looking the way you want and not worry about it again.
Lastly, enter the Date Available and Due Date here at the bottom. It even has a pop-out calendar.
Once you finish that, click save at the bottom and your header should be all set.
You can see the title right under Lesson 2, the default message to students and the availability dates.
Notice the message on the right that lets you know this lesson is not live at this moment.
Next we're going to add some questions to our assignment.
Notice that there are five question types listed here.
We will do an essay question, since that is the type you want to use for most of your just in time assignments.
The short answer type might seem tempting, but it gives the students a very small textbox to answer in,
something appropriate for one or two words, so I would avoid it.
I'm going to click on Essay.
All question types have four items of interest at the top: a Question Text field, an Autograde dropdown,
a Question Points field and this Add Image button.
Lets take these in reverse order.
The Add Image button is one you see in lots of places on JiTTDL,
which is nice since diagrams, graphs and other visual cues are important for learning.
That said, we're going to leave the "how to use images" instructions for another format.
Follow the link here to learn more.
The Question Points field is pretty self explanatory. If you want this question to be graded out of 2 points, you just put a 2 here.
The autograde dropdown lets you choose Yes or No.
If you set this to Yes the site will automatically give full credit to students under certain circumstances.
For an essay question it gives them credit for entering any kind of text at all, which is actually very useful.
So, unless you are creating a question that won't be worth any points, I don't see any reason you would opt out.
We're going to leave this on Yes.
The Question Text field is where you will compose your question.
If your question is just simple text you can type it here and then click save.
If your question has underlined portions, special characters, line breaks, or other formatting you will need to enter the HTML code here.
Go to is.gd/jittdlguide and look for the link to my guide on the bits of HTML that I think you'll find useful.
Or you can just do some googling and you should have what you need in short order.
For this example, lets put in a question that is mostly simple text with one HTML tag to make a word show up in bold.
There we go.
Then click the save button here in the upper section.
For an essay question with no frills we don't really need to worry about any of the other parts of this page,
but if we scroll down we can see a preview of our question.
We can see that the word why is showing up in bold. The question looks good to me, so scroll down and click Save and Return.
Now in our assignment we can see the header we saved before and we can see our new question listed right here.
Now lets create a multiple choice question. I'm going to choose the Multi Choice Unique option, meaning there is only one right answer.
The upper section of this is the same as what we saw before, so I'm just going to put in a very simple question,
make it worth 2 points and then click save on this upper part.
Next lets look at this middle section, titled Edit Choices.
We didn't have to worry about this with an Essay question, but for anything with multiple options this is where you put those options in.
We didn't have to worry about this with an Essay question, but for anything with multiple options this is where you put those options in.
You're going to fill in the choices you want, you're going to make sure the Choice Type is the right kind and,
if you are grading warm up questions on effort you want all choices to be labeled as correct.
After each option is ready you need to click Save or Add.
Now you can see the full question preview here in the bottom section.
We can see that students will get credit regardless of what they choose.
Looks good, so we will click Save and Return.
Back in the assignment page we can see our new question has shown up as question number 2.
Creating a multiple choice question in which students can choose more than one option
is essentially the same, except you change the Choice Type for each option.
For this simple Warm Up assignment we are all done.
The availability dates are set here at the top, so there is nothing else we need to do.
The student view of this assignment is virtually identical to what we see here, minus the various question adding buttons,
or edit or delete, things like that.
If you want to see the student view explicitly, click on Lesson Options in the top right toolbar
and click show details for the relevant lesson.
Thanks for watching!