• Essays are just a type of question in Angel. The essay question must be created as any other item in a repository, and later copied to an assessment within a course, as explained shortly.
  • Important to keep in mind: essay questions are always graded manually.
  • To Create an Essay Assignment:
  1. Begin at the Learning Object Repository , on the leftmost toolbar
  2. Click on a repository name (e.g. Library Repository Pullman or your own personal repository)
  3. Navigate to Assessments / Course Assessments
  4. Obs.: Collaboration with courses will span multiple semesters. A clean shared space will be maintained by using the following structure in the Course Assessments directory: 
    Course Name / Course Name Semester Year / content. e.g.: World Civ 111 / World Civ 111 Fall 2011 / World Civ 111 Quiz.
  5. Click on "Add Content"
  6. Click "Folder" to create a folder for the course
    • All assessments, quizzes and essays for the course are to be placed here
  7. Name the folder according to the course name, e.g. "Geology 101"
  8. Save
  9. Click on "Add Content"
  10. Select Assessment
  11. Give the essay a Title
  12. Save
  13. Select "Add Question"
  14. Select "Essay"
  15. Add the question
    1. Question title (optional)
    2. Assign 10 points as default value
    3. Add question text
    4. Add answer length (optional)
    5. Obs.: Leaving this field blank will result in an answer box of approximately 10 lines. Consider increasing it to at least 50 when intended response is to be longer, so as to be recognizable by the student
  16. Save

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