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Optional Assignments

  • March 14, 2024
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Is it possible to have an assignment that is optional for the learner? I only see the ability to choose the Learner Policy. 

Here is the scenario we would like to enact - Learner has the option of submitting a draft of their final presentation that will be reviewed by instructor and provided feedback. 

Best answer by lrnlab

There is no direct  way to make a learning object optional however if you have several objects in a course, you can make one of them the “end object marker” which is the thing that would (when passed) mark the course as completed.

The assignment allows the user to submit a document and the evaluator can mark it as failed and reject it to allow the user to resubmit an update version as needed.

 

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  • March 14, 2024

There is no direct  way to make a learning object optional however if you have several objects in a course, you can make one of them the “end object marker” which is the thing that would (when passed) mark the course as completed.

The assignment allows the user to submit a document and the evaluator can mark it as failed and reject it to allow the user to resubmit an update version as needed.

 


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  • March 14, 2024

Thanks for your wisdom @lrnlab! Could you recommend a work around we could use to allow learners to upload something without using the Assignments learning object?

The only alternative I can think of is adding the File Repository widget to the course. 


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you could but that could also get very messy and hard to manage since it’s not necessarily tied to a user. Assignments are the most direct way to exchange documents.

If you want to go less formal, and you have Coach & Share, you could create a channel and have the share documents there.