First go to the location where you want to add homework: Let’s add to the Work Assigned by your Instructor Folder
1. Click “Course Materials” (found on the left-hand navigation bar)
2. Click on the upper right hand corner of the screen to change from the “display” view to the “edit view.” Note: this feature is only available in instructor course modules.
3. Go into the Work Assigned by your Instructor folder.
4. Add a folder to this page.
4. Fill out the information on the folder. I call mine Chapter 1 Homework, Chapter 2 Homework, etc. I also give students details regarding the completion dates for these assignments. When you are finished click “submit”.
5. Now open the folder so you can start adding assignments by selecting HM Exercise in the drop down menu on the right and then selecting GO.
6. When the Content Library has completely opened, click on Expand All. This may take a while. Wait until all components are expanded. Watch the prompts at the bottom of the window. Applet started means things are still being opened.
7. Now find all the Graded Homework Sets or Chapter Review and Test Sets from Chapter Two that you want added to this folder and click in the box to the left. When each assessment you want to add has a check in it, go to the bottom of the page and click on submit.
8. After you choose submit, you will have a set of options to complete that will be added to each exercise. I again remind students of the due date of the assignment by adding a statement to the instructions section.
9. After you have added exercises to your course, you need to go into each exercise and select the problems that you want to keep and how many of each type you want included in your exercise. For details on this operation, see page 2 of Hiding Course Content on the Teaching With Eduspace Tab.
10. You can set up your entire course before you even start classes. You can set the display dates on each chapter folder to coincide with the chapter test dates so students do not have access to this material after the due date or too early before the material is presented. For details on this operation, see page 1 option 4 of Hiding Course Content on the Teaching With Eduspace Tab.
11. In order to not have grades negatively skewed in the grade book, you need to turn off the “use this assignment to calculate grades”. This is done in the item detail menu that is found in the grade book component of the control panel. For details on this operation, see page 3 of handout, Managing the Gradebook.
Rochelle Beatty, Houghton Mifflin, 2006 page3of 3