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Creating Assignments

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Creating and managing assignments

  • Can I customize which questions my students can answer?
  • What is the difference between a Diagnostic, Formative, and Summative Assessment?
  • How do I create an assignment?
  • How do I assign a reading to a single student or small group of students?
  • How do I share an assignment?
  • How can I post and manage CommonLit assignments in Google Classroom?
  • How do I share an assignment to Schoology or another LMS?
  • What is Guided Reading Mode? How can I enable it?
  • How can I save texts for later?
  • Can I set a start date for an assignment?
  • How can I exempt students from an assignment?
  • Can I assign only the multiple choice questions?
  • Can I assign only guided reading mode?
  • Can I assign a text to students without any questions? Can I assign only annotations?
  • Can I assign the multiple choice questions as one assignment and the short answer questions as another assignment?
  • Can I edit the assessment questions my students can answer?
  • Can I edit the short answer questions?
  • Can I choose which multiple choice or which short answer questions students can answer?
  • Can I create student-choice assignments?
  • Can I disable read aloud audio on a student's assignment?
  • Can I assign a group of favorited texts to students?
  • Can I assign related media or directly share the related media on CommonLit's digital platform?
  • Is there a way to differentiate the assignments for students in a class period? I would love to be able to assign the texts to students individually based on their Lexile levels.
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