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Minimum version: FirstClass 8.1

Audience: Teachers      

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Features we use:
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          9203_24337_3.pngconference permissions
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9203_31709_1.png Summary
Want an easier way to receive and mark student assignments than carting stacks of paper home and back again? Have students submit their work online. FirstClass gives you complete control over submissions, from the time you receive the work to when it is returned. You can receive all the work in one location, automatically file late work separately, grade the work and return it to students' Mailboxes, and even see who has opened the returned work.
Here is a comparison of the conventional way to grade student assignments versus how you would do it in FirstClass.
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9203_31709_1.png Example
John Smith teaches Grade 12 English at Avalon Academy. He requires each student to write one essay per term. Students send their essays to an Assignments conference. Late assignments are subject to a penalty, so John created a mail rule to file any essays arriving after the due date in a Late Submissions subconference.
When John finishes marking an essay he doesn't want it cluttering up his Mailbox, so he creates a mail rule to have returned assignments filed in a Returned Assignments folder in his Mailbox.
Here are the steps John follows to handle his students' term essay assignment:
STEP 1: Assign essay
FirstClass lets you notify students of assignments and other important dates by posting them to the class calendar. This way students always know when assignments are due without having to be reminded. John schedules the essay assignment in the class calendar.
This is the Month view of the class calendar where he scheduled the essay assignment.
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STEP 2: Receive student essays
John won't be receiving hard copies of students' essays so he provides students with an online dropbox. He creates a main conference called Assignments, and inside it creates a Late Submissions subconference where a mail rule will file late assignments.
This is what the Assignments conference looks like.
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John needs a way to keep students from viewing work others have handed in. He uses conference permissions to give students Write-Only access to the Assignments conference.
This is how he set up permissions for the Assignments conference.
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John wants late assignments kept separate from those handed in on time so he creates a new Receive mail rule within the Assignments conference to move late assignments to the Late Submissions conference.
This is the mail rule John set up to handle late assignments.
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STEP 3: Grade essays
John doesn't need to carry a stack of essays home to grade. Whether he is at home or at school, he can log in and grade essays. He grades them by creating a reply message addressed to the student and adding comments in blue using Verdana Bold 10. He includes his assessment and grade at the end of the essay.  
This is an assignment that he graded.
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STEP 4: Return essays
When John returns graded essays, a mail rule files his copy in the Returned Assignments folder within his Mailbox.
This is the mail rule John set up to handle returned essays.
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John checks the message history of returned essays to see if students have read his assessment. Students must open the page with his assessment to see their grade.



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