Assessments in onCourse

Assessment tasks are records that you create and assign to classes in onCourse. When an assessment task is assigned to a class, it has a release date, due date and assessor nominated, as well as a 'submitted on' date and 'marked on' date for each student enrolled in the class. Next to these dates is a 'grade' column, where you can set the student’s assessment score according to criteria set in the Preferences > Grading types section.

An assessment task comprises a name, description and attached documents, and is designed to:

• Instruct the candidate, or student, of the assessment activity they are required to complete for the assessment task
• Instruct the assessor, or tutor, of the marking guidelines and criteria for the assessment