Title: ABOUT ASSIGNMENTS
Course: Critical Infrastructure: An Overview > Section: Assignments

You can assess students in a variety of meaningful ways beyond traditional objective tests. The Assignments tool enables you to create, distribute, and collect assignment submissions. In the Assignments Content Area, you can create all the assignments for your course, and students are able to view and submit them from one location.

You can use assignments for a variety of learning activities, such as:

- Case studies
- Problem-based learning exercises
- Practice exercises
- Essays
- Research papers
- Group projects

When you create an assignment, you provide the instructions, attach files, set the points possible, and determine whether the assignment is delivered to students individually or as collaborative work for groups of students. For each assignment you add, a column is created automatically in the Grade Center.

You can provide feedback throughout the research paper process by adding milestone assignments. For example, create separate assignments for submitting the outline, bibliography, and rough draft. You can provide feedback and encouragement as students progress through the steps.