Assignments Overview

HiTA can help you create assignments, administer them to your students and grade them - all with the help of AI. This guide will help you familiarize yourself with the different assignment-related features HiTA provides.

Note: The Assignments feature is a new, experimental feature in alpha testing. It is currently only available upon request to the HiTA dev team.

The Assignments Page

You can access the assignments tab from the navbar for either your course assistant or personal assistant.

On the assignments page, you will see the assignments organized by due date. From this page, you can edit the assignments, configure them, and download any grades.

Clicking the assignment cards on this page will bring you to the assignment editing page. Each card also has a menu with other options.

Editing Assignments for Course Assistants

After clicking the assignment card on the assignments page of your course assistant, you will be brought to the assignment editing page. Here you can create the assignment instructions that students will see. You can upload files if you already have materials, or use AI to generate a new assignment from scratch! Type "/" into the editor here to see a full list of commands. Once you're satisfied, click the "Publish" button at the top of the page and it will be available for students.

Note: You can delay showing published assignments to students by setting the "Available From" date for the assignment from the menu in the top right. The assignment will be shown to students only after the time you select is reached.

Student Assignment Work View

Once an assignment is published in a course assistant, students will be able to access it from their assignments page. They will be able to view the assignment instructions, chat with the AI for help, and create their submission all at the same time. When they are done, they will click the "Submit" button at the top of the page. Students can submit many times, and all submissions will be available to graders in the grading view. Students can also save drafts if they aren't ready to share their work with the grader.

External Assignments

You can still take advantage of HiTA's AI grading capabilities even if your course is not using a course assistant. Simply upload your assignment and submissions to your personal assistant by clicking the "+ Assignment" button on the assignment page. You can then set the grading options and enter the grading view.

Grading Submissions

The grading view can be accessed by the "Begin Grading" button in the "More options" menu from the assignment page. In this view, you can see all the submissions for the assignment and submit grades for them. For an in-depth treatment of grading, please see thegrading documentation page.

In the grading view, you can interact with the AI grader. Here you can adjust settings to get the AI grading just right for your course. When you're ready, click the "Suggest All" button to generate grade suggestions for all submissions. You can then go through and review the AI suggestions for an easy grading workflow without any risk of unsupervised AI affecting student grades.

Grade Summaries

After you are done grading, you can visit the grade summary page. This will show you various summary statistics about the assignment and allow you to download your grades to export them to your LMS.