Individually Assign Material in Schoology Courses
Keywords: Schoology materials, assign materials, individually assign materials
Aliases: assignments, pages, quizzes, assessments,
How do I individually assign course materials?
The ability to individually assign course content is a foundational component of personalized learning; many teachers start with differentiation when they are trying to personalize learning.
You can use the Individually Assign option to assign course materials (assignments, tests/quizzes, assessments, discussions, pages, files, links, external tools, media albums, SCORM, and web packages) to individual students and/or to grading groups. When you individually assign an item, it only appears to the assigned student(s) or grading group.
When should I use Individually Assign?
This feature may be a good solution if:
- You want to give an extra credit assignment to certain students.
- A student needs to make up an assignment before or after the rest of the class.
- You want to create a modified version of an assignment or test for certain students.
- You want to create a page to provide personalized instructions to one or more students.
Notes:- Note: Individually Assigning impacts PowerTeacher Pro displays. See the section below on how Individually Assigned items are displayed in PowerSchool/ PowerTeacher and Parent Portal Views.
How to Individually Assign materials from a Course
You can individually assign content as you create it from the Add Materials menu, or individually assign existing content by clicking the gear icon and editing the material:
- From the Create or Edit screen of the material you would like to assign, click the Individually Assign icon within the Options field.
- Enter the names of the student(s) or grading group(s) to whom you would like to assign the material.
- Click Save Changes to complete.
Below, an existing Test/Quiz is individually assigned to a grading group:
Can students see items that aren't assigned to them?
No, individually assigned materials are only visible to the assigned student(s) from the Course Materials page.
How do grading groups interact with individually assigned materials?
What happens if I change which students are in the grading group? For example, a student submitted a test on an Individually Assigned assessment, but then I remove the student from the grading group?
If you remove a student from a grading group, all previous submissions completed while the student was a member of the group still apply to the student's grade. For example, if you are using grading groups for differentiated learning, and students move to a different group in the middle of a grading period, all graded items they completed from the first group still apply to their final grades and display in all grade reports.
Grading individually Assigned Materials
When you individually assign graded materials, you can only enter grades into the gradebook for the students to whom you assigned the item. In the screenshot below, the "Unit 1 GT Quiz" is assigned to a group of students:
Important Notes:
- Ensure that submissions are Enabled. Assessments can be enabled from the Edit area within the assessment. Test/quizzes can be enabled from the Settings area within the test/quiz.
- If some students have already completed an item, then you individually assign it to specific students, the scores and submissions for the students not included in the individual assign tag will temporarily "disappear." To see all students' scores, remove the individually assigned tag. The submissions and grades will repopulate for all students who have completed the item.
- If you sync grades from Schoology to an SIS, individually assigned items sync over to the SIS gradebook and are visible to all students in the course. Students who were not assigned this item will view the assignment title but no grade will be passed to the SIS gradebook.
PowerSchool/PowerTeacher and Parent Portal Views
When using grading groups or assigning to individual students, please be aware of how these are viewed in PowerSchool/PowerTeacher Pro and PowerSchool/Parent Portal. In Schoology students only see the materials that are assigned to them.
When Schoology and PowerSchool sync, ALL assignments are passed over to PowerSchool. This means you see the assignments for both in the PowerTeacher Pro gradebook and students and parents see the ALL assignments in Parent Portal. You will want to communicate this information to students and families, instructing them to view the Schoology course and Student Report to know which assignments the student is responsible for. You may also want to set up a naming convention to help them know which assignments should have grades.
Examples of each view:
Schoology gradebook - Teacher View
PowerTeacher Pro gradebook - Teacher View
Student Grade Report in Schoology - Student and Parent Account view 
PowerSchool Parent Portal Class Assignments- Student and Parent Account view
See Creating Grading Groups in Schoology for more information.
See Individually Assign Folders in Schoology Courses for more information.