Sometimes, you might want to give your students a specific amount of time to complete an assignment.
- Prerequisites
- Schedule an Assignment Based on Class Schedule
- Schedule an Assignment Based on the Day of the Week
Timed assignments are indicated with an hourglass icon .
Timed assignments can be useful for:
- Giving a reading assignment for which you do not want to give your students time to look up the answer.
- Assigning a take-home quiz for which each student has a different set of short multiple-choice questions selected from a pool of questions.
- Administering tests, usually with WebAssign LockDown Browser®.
- Conducting placement tests to evaluate student proficiency in a subject area.
- Preparing your students to take a timed standardized test.
While your students work on a timed assignment, a timer displays the remaining time in the top right corner.
- Once they start the assignment, the timer does not stop, even if they close the assignment or sign out of WebAssign. Your students should plan to complete the assignment in one session.
- The actual due date for a timed assignment is either the date and time when the timer expires or the original assignment due date, whichever comes first. If a student starts a ten-minute timed assignment one minute before it is due, the student will have only one minute to complete the assignment.
- If the time remaining until the assignment is due is less than the amount of time your student would otherwise have to complete the assignment, the timer displays only the remaining time until the assignment is due.
If your students are working on the assignment when the time expires, all of their responses are automatically submitted so they do not miss any points. After the time has expired, your students cannot do any more work on the assignment.
When assigning timed work, be sure to offer testing accommodations for your students with learning disabilities. You can give additional time to specific students for timed assignments. The extra time does not override the due date and time you set for the assignment.
Hours to Minutes Table for Long Timed Assignments
You can set a timed assignment to allow up to 999 minutes (16 hours, 39 minutes). Use the following reference table if needed.
Hours | Minutes |
---|---|
3 | 180 |
4 | 240 |
5 | 300 |
6 | 360 |
7 | 420 |
8 | 480 |
9 | 540 |
10 | 600 |
11 | 660 |
12 | 720 |
13 | 780 |
14 | 840 |
15 | 900 |
16 | 960 |