Online Assignment Tutorial
Completing assigments on Skyward that can make life a bit easier for both teacher and student. This tutorial
will go through four things:
1. Creation of an online assignment.
2. Attaching a document or picture to on online assignment.
3. Assigning an online assignment.
4. Grading an online assignment.
Creating an online assignment.
Note – I would advise creating all your questions in a MS Word or Google docs so that you can cut and paste
questions and answer choices into Skyward.
1. Click on the drop down
button ‘Other Access’
2. Click on the link
‘Online Assignment Template’
4. A list of the assignment
templates that you have
already created should come
up in alphabetical order. To
create a new assignment
template click on the button
‘Add.’
5. This window should pop-up.
Type a title into the ‘Name’
box and then hit the button
‘Save and Add Questions’
You could change the default
points, have the questions
appear to the student in a
random order, and determine
how many questions per page
the students will see as well.
All of these things can be
edited later if you change your
mind.
As it says next to the button,
Skyward can autoscore the
assignment and then posted it
automatically to Gradebook,
but only if the assignments
consists only of multiple
choice and true/false
questions.
Once you hit the ‘Save and Add Questions’
button this window should appear. There
are four types of questions: multiple
choice, true/false, short answer, and essay.
Short Answer questions are meant for one
or two word answers. Skyward will try to
grade these, but all spelling /formatting in
the student answer must match one of the
possible correct answers you provide.
Essay questions are meant for answers that
are much longer. Skyward allows 3000
characters for a response to an essay
question. If you believe that your students
will need more space, simply add
additional questions with the text:
“additional space for essay if needed”
Only use this button after the last question or if you are planning on saving your work to finish at a later time.
5. Select the type of question you want.
Type in the question and the possible
answers (if needed) and hit the
button ‘Save and Add Another.’ On
your last question hit the button
‘Save and Back’.
You can format the text by hitting the
button ‘View Style Toolbar’ in the
textbox. This will bring up a number
of formatting buttons. You can then
format the text in roughly the same
way you would in Word or
PowerPoint.
6. Once you finish your last
question and hit the ‘Save and
Back Button’ on the question
screen this window should
appear. Make sure that
everything is set the way you
want and hit the button ‘Save
and Back.’ You’re done.
These arrows allow you to
move questions up or down,
so that you can adjust the
order of the questions.
This button will present the questions to the
students in random order. Different students will
see the questions in different orders.
This button will randomly change the
order of your questions. Be cautious with
this button.
Attaching a document or picture to on online assignment
Skyward allows you to attach documents to individual questions in an online assignment. These attachments
could range from readings that students need to complete before answering the questions to
pictures/diagrams that are referred to in the questions. Note: avoid attaching more than one thing to a
single question.
1. Click on the ‘attach’ button.
2. After clicking the ‘attach’ button this
window pops up. Click on the
‘Browse’ button.
3. The ‘Browse’ button brings up this
window. This is the same window
you would see if you tried to open a
document in Word, PowerPoint,
Excel, etc. Navigate to the file you
want and double-click on that file.
(If you do not want to double-click,
single-click on the file you want.
When the file name appears in the
file name box, click on the ‘Open’
button.
4. Once you double-click on the file you want,
this window pops back up. Now the file
address should be in the purple box next to
the ‘Browse’ button. Click on the ‘Upload’
button.
5. Once the file is uploaded, it will appear in
the big ‘Attachment Maintenance’ box.
Click on the ‘Save’ button and you are
done.
Assigning an online assignment.
Once you have created the new online assignment template, you will need to assign it to your students.
1. Navigate to the class that
you want and click on the
drop down for
‘Assignments’. Click on
‘Add Assignment’
2. When the assignment
window comes up, choose
the category, write in the
title, choose your dates and
assign point values as you
would with any other
assignment. Once you have
done this click on the
‘Options’ drop down menu
and choose
‘Copy from My Online
Assignment Templates’
Note: If you have not yet create the online assignment you could click on the
‘Create Online Assignment’ selection in this drop down menu and create the
assignment fresh. The only problem I have found with this route is that if you
create the assignment here, the assignment does not appear on your list of
online templates for later use.
3. A list of the assignments you
have created should pop up.
Highlight the one you want
by clicking on it and the click
on the ‘Clone to Assignment’
button.
4. Change the settings to what you
want for that specific
assignment.
Start Date: This is the date
when the assignment becomes
available to students to
complete.
Stop Date: This is the date when
the assignment is no longer
available to complete.
Show results: This is when
students can go into their past
assignments and see their
scores.
Once you have changed these
settings to what you want, hit
the button ‘Save and Back’
5. This window should reappear. Click on the
‘Save and Back’ button
and you’re done.
Note: The actual due date
appears to be the date that
Skyward refers to when
posting things to the
Calendar in Family Access.
Grading an online assignment
Once students have completed the assignment online, you will need to grade it online as well.
1. Navigate to the class you
want and click on the
assignment you want to
grade.
2. This window should pop-up.
Click on the button that says
‘Score Online Assignment’
3. Highlight the student whose
assignment you want to grade
and click on the button
‘Score Online Assignment’
4. Grade the assignment. You
type in the amount of points
(to the tenth of a point if you
want) students earned. In
addition you can type in short
comments. Skyward will
automatically score multiple
choice, true/false, and short
answer questions (but you can
change Skyward’s score if you
choose to). Make sure you
grade each page. Once you
are done grading the
assignment click the button
‘Post Score to Gradebook’
Note: If you do not finish
grading an assignment or if
you do not wish to post it to
Gradebook you could just click
‘Save and Close.’
5. Once this window pops
up make sure the score
is accurate. Then if you
want students to see
what they earned on
individual questions and
your comments check
the ‘Show Results in
Student Access’ Box.
You may also input
special codes and
general comments in this
window. Once your are
done click on the button
‘Save and Close.’
6. Once you click on ‘Save
and Close’ the ‘Score
Online Assignment’
window will come back
up. Highlight the next
student you want to
score and click the button
‘Score Online
Assignment’. Once you
are done grading all the
assignments click on the
‘Back’ button.