This feature will be available on January 15th, 2025.
As an administrator with the Pro Upgrade, you can create and assign common assignments to provide all students with aligned practice that teachers and other admins can use to identify subject, grade, campus, or district-level trends. Common assignments are created using the same Assignment Builder process as typical Albert assignments. Once created, administrators can assign common assignments to all students within their school or district license.
Note: This feature is only available to the admin with the Pro Upgrade. Ready to see Admin Created Assignments in action? Email us at success@albert.io to set up a live demo.
How can I use Admin Created Assignments?
Admin created assignments can help your campus or district meet its instructional goals by providing students with diagnostic assessments, exposure to mock exams, standard-aligned formative assessments, and more!
Assigning Pre-Made Assessments
Our pre-made assessments are designed to provide students with practice that mimics the question style and content of high-stakes exams, including AP®, ACT®, SAT®, and end-of-course exams for select states. Examples of best practices include:
Assigning AP® diagnostics to ensure all students have the appropriate class placement.
Assigning a full-length practice ACT® exam to better understand how students will perform on high-stakes exams.
Assigning a topic quiz aligned with your state exam to a select cohort of students, then supporting teachers in developing study plans based on data.
Formative Assignments
Standard-aligned formative assignments can support instructional goals by focusing on high-priority standards or concepts. These shared formative assignments can provide teachers and stakeholders with data to identify department, campus, or district-level student mastery and develop instructional intervention plans. Suggested use cases include:
Creating and assigning quizzes aligned to high-priority standards for cohorts of students, then supporting teachers in data review and action planning.
Building intervention assignments for students needing additional support.
Fidelity of Implementation
The more questions students answer on Albert, the better they perform on high-stakes exams. Common assignments can help teachers reach goals related to the number of questions answered on Albert in a given timeframe, boost student engagement, and close learning gaps with quick, targeted practice opportunities. Sample use cases include:
Assigning weekly quizzes for teachers who need support reaching usage goals.
Assigning remediation practice targeting historically low-performing standards to close student learning gaps.
[Pro-tip]: If any of the above use cases would be best implemented by a teacher leader, department head, instructional lead, etc., they can do so with admin permissions. Email schools@albert.io to ensure they have correct access.
Creating Common Assignments
Common assignments can be created using the Assignment Builder. This feature allows you to select and assign questions across multiple topics, units, or subjects.
How to use the Assignment Builder
How to use the Assignment Builder
Click Launch Assignment Builder in the top navigation bar.
Click Add Questions +.
Adjust the filters:
Standards: Click Add to search by standard code or description. When you select to search by standards, your preferred standard sets will be shown by default. You can make adjustments to your Content Preferences at any time.
Subjects & Topics: Select as many subjects as you would like. You can narrow your search by clicking the checkbox next to any topic within a subject.
[Pro-Tip:] While the subject view defaults to Practice questions, use the top tabs to view Assessments and Free Response Questions.
Hide Assessment Questions: Toggle this on to only show questions in the Practice and Free Response tabs of a subject.
Hide Previously Assigned: Toggle this on to only show questions not in active or past due assignments.
Question Difficulty: Select as many question difficulty levels as you would like.
Question Type: Select as many question types as you would like.
Click Show Results to view all questions that meet your filter criteria.
Review questions on the right side of the screen. Use the Add to Assignment button to add questions.
[Pro-Tip]: Use the Add 10 for Me button to easily generate an assignment according to your selected filters.
Click Done Adding to view your assignment.
Adjust the order, add additional questions, or remove questions as needed.
Click Assign to assign your selection.
If you are not yet ready to assign your selected questions, click Options > Convert to Folder to move questions to a folder.
Title your assignment, select recipients, and adjust the settings to best fit your needs.
Click Assign.
Assigning Common Assignments
Once you have created an assignment, you can assign it to specific grade levels and teachers or the schools within your district.
As a reminder, this feature is only available for admin at schools/districts that have purchased the Pro Upgrade. To learn more or schedule a live demo, email schools@albert.io.
Selecting Classes
Selecting Classes
Once your assignment is built, you will need to select classes to receive the assignment:
Click Assign at the top right corner.
Click Add Class in the Recipients section on the left.
Select Browse All Classes.
Search classes by School, Grade, Teacher, or Class Name.
Select the desired classes and click Apply.
Determining Assignment Settings
Determining Assignment Settings
After selecting the desired classes, you must determine the default assignment settings. You'll need to determine a due date and when answers and explanations will be shared with students. All other assignment settings are optional.
Creating Custom Assignment Settings
Creating Custom Assignment Settings
You can create custom assignment settings for individual classes or students with learning accommodations to meet their instructional needs.
Custom Class Settings
To create custom assignment settings for an individual class, click Customize to the right of the class name. You can set custom assignment settings that will only apply to that class.
Once you've adjusted settings for that class, click Done. Repeat for any additional classes that require custom settings.
Custom Student Settings
To customize settings for individual students:
Select the caret to the left of the class name.
A list of enrolled students will appear.
Click Customize next to the desired student.
Determine custom student settings.
Click Done to save the settings.
Admin Data Reports
Monitoring Student Progress
Data collected from all practice on a common assignment is compiled in Reports. You will need to run an Assignment Report to view data from a specific admin-created assignment.
Click Reports.
Click Schools.
Select All Schools or select an individual school.
Click Assignments. To filter more easily, use the search button in the top right.
You can drill down from the Assignment Report to view specific teacher, classroom, student, question, standard, or subject performance.
Managing Assignment Settings
You can manage settings for any assignment at your school or within your district by using Reports. To edit assignment settings for an existing assignment:
Run an Assignment Report.
Select the Actions drop-down menu to the right of the assignment you want to edit.
Click Edit.
Adjust Default Recipient Settings as needed.
Create custom settings for specific classes or students if needed.
