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How to Assign Assignments (Teachers and School Administrators)

Teachers and School Administrators follow the steps below to assign assignments to students. (Group Administrators cannot assign assignments.)

Note: Each assignment can be assigned to up to 800 students; any students selected beyond the first 800 will not receive the assignment.

  1. At the top of any myON page, select Assignments.
    the Assignments option at the top of any myON page
  2. To locate the assignment you wish to assign, select Active to see assignments that have been published or Drafts to see assignments that have not yet been published.
    the Active, Drafts, and Archived categories under My Assignments
    What you do next depends on whether you have chosen Active assignments or Drafts.

Active Assignments

  1. Find the assignment in the list and select Manage Students for that assignment. The Select Students window will open.
    the Manage Students button for an assignment

  2. If you are a teacher, your class is shown by default, and you can tick any of the students in your class, click Select All to tick all of the students, or click Unselect All to remove the tick next to all students.

    selecting students in your class to receive the assignment

    If you want to assign the assignment to a specific student and the list is long, it may be faster to search for the student in the list to find the student more quickly.

    an example of a search for a student

    If you prefer to assign the assignment to students in a specific group, select the My Groups tab. On that tab, use the drop-down list to select the group, then check students.

    selecting students by group with the My Groups tab and the group drop-down list

    If you are a School Administrator, instead of the My Class tab, you will see My School and My Teachers tabs. The My School tab lets you assign the assignment to a year; use the drop-down list to choose the year. The My Teachers tab lets you assign the assignment to students of a specific teacher; use the drop-down list to choose the teacher. You will also see a My Groups tab that lets you choose a group as teachers do. Once you have chosen a tab and a year, teacher or group, tick the students that you want to assign the assignment to.

    selecting students by teacher as a school administrator

  3. When you have finished selecting students, select Accept at the bottom of the window. You will go back to the list of Active assignments, and the number of assigned students will be updated.

Draft Assignments

If you have already selected the required assignment information and selected the students to assign, select Publish to assign the assignment to the students and make the assignment active. Then, in the Publish Draft message, select Publish. You will see the message "Published" on the left side of the assignment for a moment.

the Publish to Students option for an assignment

If you have not yet finished adding the assignment information, select Edit Draft for the assignment; you can select students and publish the assignment to students as you edit the assignment.
the Edit Draft button

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