Understanding Assignments
Assignments allow you to create structured academic projects like research papers and annotated bibliographies for your students. This guide explains assignment concepts and points you to detailed instructions for common tasks.
Assignments is an Edu Pro only feature.
Concepts
Assignments in Scrible are configurable workflows that help you manage academic projects from start to finish. Each assignment consists of customizable components including sources, outlines, bibliographies, and documents. You set requirements upfront, and students work through these components as they complete their projects.
The key advantage of Scrible assignments is visibility into the student writing process, not just final deliverables. The platform tracks time students spend working on individual assignment tasks, monitors students progress towards assignment requirements, and displays this data to teachers in an analytics view. This gives you insight into student engagement and helps support academic integrity.
To learn more about how assignments work:
Assignment stages - Understand the lifecycle of an assignment from creation through completion
Assignment libraries - Understand how assignments are organized and stored in your account
Creating Assignments
When you create an assignment, you configure the components and requirements students will need to complete. This includes setting minimum source requirements, choosing bibliography formats (MLA, APA, etc.), and connecting student documents from Google Drive or OneDrive. You can adjust these settings throughout the assignment period as needed.
To get started with assignment creation:
Creating an assignment - Step-by-step guide to set up a new assignment with essential components
Creating a group assignment - Guide to set up a new group assignment
Tracking and Analytics
The Assignment Overview provides three analytics pages to monitor student work: Class Progress, Student Progress, and Time on Task. The analytics you see depend on the requirements and settings you configured when creating the assignment.
To explore tracking capabilities:
Class progress - Monitor requirement completion rates and submission statuses across your entire class. Identify which students are progressing on schedule and which may need additional support.
Student progress - View individual student time spent on researching, annotating, outlining, AI interactions, and writing, along with sources they've added and their submitted work. Track completion status for each assignment component.
Time on task - See how students allocate time across five key stages: Research (saving sources), Analysis (annotating sources), Synthesis (outlining), AI (interacting with Rese), and Writing (working in their document). This breakdown helps you understand student engagement patterns throughout the assignment.
Working on Assignments
Students interact with assignments by completing the required components you've configured. They add sources to their library, create outlines to organize their thinking, build bibliographies, and write their papers in connected documents. As they work, the system automatically tracks their progress.
When students are ready, they submit their completed work for your review. Understanding the student workflow helps you anticipate questions and provide better support.
To learn more about the student experience:
Working on assignments - Learn how students complete assignment tasks and work through components
Submitting an assignment - Learn how students submit completed work and check submission status