Can I create student-choice assignments?

Only educators can assign texts directly to students through the CommonLit Digital platform. Students cannot assign a text to themselves or browse the Library.

However, teachers can still introduce opportunities for student choice on CommonLit. For instance, if you're using the CommonLit Library, you can select a group of texts that share a common theme or topic and create a class-wide assignment for each text. Then you can exempt students from the texts they don't choose:

1. Click My Classes in the menu on the left.
2. Go to Assignments.
3. Click the assignment you want to view to open the Assignment Dashboard.
4. Use the Exempt option under the Student Assignment Status table to exempt any students who did not choose that text.

In addition, if you're teaching CommonLit 360, some units include choice board activities that suggest pre-selected texts for students to choose between. These choice board assignments include helpful teacher guidance for facilitating student choice in the classroom.