Aplia Instructor Brief Start Guide
Contents
Navigating your Aplia Course
Course Home Page
Adding Assignments to Aplia
Create a New Assignment
2
2
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5
Write Your Own Question
7
Adding Questions from the Test Bank
9
Add a custom assignment
10
Add textbook reading assignment
13
Add assignments from the Assignment Library
15
Editing Assignments
19
Gradebook
20
View Grades
20
Manage Grades
21
Navigating your Aplia Course
This section describes how to navigate in Aplia.
Course Home Page
When you create a course, the Course Home page displays. You can do the following:
Function
View
announcements
for the course.
Add new
assignments.
View a list of
assignments due
during the
current week as
well as
upcoming
weeks.
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Function
View the Course
Outline, which
lists all the
assignments in
the course.
Edit Course
Information.
View the course
as your students
see it.
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Function
View and block
students.
View and
manage grades
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Adding Assignments to Aplia
You can add different types of Aplia assignments to your course. Click Add Assignments from either the
Course Home or Course Outline tab. The Add Assignment dialog box displays.
Create a New Assignment
Follow this procedure to create a new assignment:
Step
Action
1
Select Create a new assignment.
2
Click Submit.
Result: The Create New Problem Set page displays.
Step
3
Action
Fill out the required fields.
Click Submit.
Result: A blank question bank displays.
4
Click either Write Your Own or From Test Bank.
Go to the Write Your Own or From Test Bank section
Write Your Own Question
Use the following procedure to write your own questions.
Step
1
Action
Click Write Your Own.
Result:A list of question types display.
2
Select the type of question you want to add.
Step
Action
2
(cont.)
Result: The Multiple Choice Question page displays.
3
Write the question and answers.
Click Submit.
Result: The question displays in the question bank.
Step
4
Action
Continue to add questions to the assignment. The assignment displays in the
course outline when you click Back to Course Outline.
Adding Questions from the Test Bank
Use the following procedure to add questions from the Test Bank:
Step
Action
1
Click From Test Bank.
2
Select Browse all questions or Generate questions randomly.
If …
Then…
You select Browse all questions.

You select Generate questions
randomly.

A list of questions displays.
 Select the check boxes next to the
questions to add.
 Click Add selected questions to
assignment.
Select the chapter to add questions
from and the number of questions.
 Click Add questions to assignment.
Step
3
Action
The questions display in the assignment. The assignment is available from the
Course Outline.
Add a custom assignment
Follow this procedure to add a custom assignment:
Step
1
Action
Select Add a custom assignment.
Step
2
Action
Click Continue.
Result: Add Custom Assignment page displays.
Step
3
Action
Fill out the required fields.
Click Submit.
Result: The assignment displays in the Course Outline.
Add textbook reading assignment
Follow this procedure to add a textbook reading assignment:
Step
Action
1
Select Add textbook reading assignment.
2
Click Continue.
Step
Action
2
(cont.)
Result: The Create Textbook Reading Assignment page displays.
3
Fill out the required fields. Click Submit.
Step
Action
3
(cont.)
Result: The Assignment displays in the Course Outline.
Add assignments from the Assignment Library
Follow this procedure to add a pre-made assignment.
NOTE: Pre-made assignments are available only for select disciplines:
Step
1
Action
Select Add assignments from the Assignment Library.
Step
2
Action
Click Continue.
Result: The Assignment Library displays.
Step
3
Action
Select a topic.
Result: Assignments in that topic display.
4
Select the check box.
Result: Copy to Course displays automatically in the dropdown menu.
5
Click GO.
Step
Action
5
(cont.)
Result: The Add Selected Assignments to Course page displays.
6
Fill out the required fields.
7
Click Submit – Continue Browsing to navigate to the Assignment Library or Submit
– Course Outline to navigate to the Course Outline tab.
Editing Assignments
You can edit assignments from the Course Outline.
Select the check boxes of the assignment you want to edit. Select an option from the drop down menu
at the top to set the date, scoring or availability.
Select the title of the assignment to edit questions titles and assignments.
Click Edit Problem Set to edit the assignment title or description.
Select the check box next to copy, delete or print questions from the dropdown menu.
Gradebook
You can view student grades in a traditional gradebook from the Gradebook tab.
View Grades
The View Grades tab displays traditional gradebook view.
Function
View a list of
students and
their scores.
Hover over a
grade to view
the possible
points.
You can search
for students.
Import or
export grades
to your LMS.
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Manage Grades
Click the Manage Grades tab to change the weight and scoring of assignments.
Function
You can drop
the lowest
scores on
assignments.
You can
calculate
grades by total
points or
average
percentage.
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Function
You can add
additional
assignments to
a group.
You can
manage how
heavily a
group is
weighted if
you have
multiple
groups.
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Function
You can make
assignments
bonus or
exclude them
from the
grade.
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