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Bruin Learn - Assignment

Bruin Learn - Assignment

Owned by Tom Garbelotti
Last updated: Apr 08, 2025 by Emma Ridder
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One way to create assessments for your students is by using “Assignments” on Bruin Learn. Here you can create multiple kinds of assessments with various forms of submissions.

File Type

When specifying the type of file that students can upload to an assignment, you must input the file types in a specific manner as shown below:

Note that when you have multiple extensions within the file type field (as above), the extensions are entered with commas and without any periods before each extension type. These file types must be entered with commas separating them (with or without spaces). If you enter them with spaces alone (and no commas) or with periods before each each extension type, your students may encounter problems submitting their file.

Manage Due Dates and Assign To

You can also choose to manage due dates, make assignments available only for select periods, or assign access to specific students/groups using the “Assign Access” functionality in a given assigment:

Mastery Paths

Mastery Paths is a tool to customize assignment allocation based on each student’s performance achieved for an assignment. Once the initial assignment has been graded, the student’s score will designate conditional items to the student as a learning path. (Example: If a cut-off line is 70%, students at or above 70% and those below 70% will be given a different set of items as a learning path. Student A at 70% or higher will be given reading Page 3 and 4 and Assignment 3 and 4, and student B below 70% will be given reading Page 1 and 2 and Assignment 2 and 3, for instance.)

Mastery paths is an opt-in feature in the setting, so instructors need to check and enable the option under the “Feature Previews” tab:

Weight Adjustment

Unlike the former CCLE Gradebook, Bruin Learn does not provide an option to adjust the weighted mean of grades directly in the Grades menu. The equivalent in Bruin Learn is to use Assignments and Assignment Groups. Below are the steps:

  1. Locate the three vertical dots at the top-right and choose “Assignment Groups Weight”:

  2. Then, check “Weight final grade based on assignment groups,” fill in the weight for each assignment group, and hit save. (Note: In each assignment group, you could also give different points to each assignment in that group if necessary.)

  3. Grades will consider these adjusted weights, show the total, and, if enabled i the Grades settings) override grades on the right end:

Using Turnitin

While there is no separate Turnitin assignment type in Bruin Learn, there is a way to enable the generation of Turnitin originality reports through Bruin Learn assignments.

When creating the assignment, you can enable Turnitin by changing the Plagiarism Review option from “None” (the default) to “Turnitin-BruinLearn” in the dropdown menu. (Note: This option will only appear if you select “Text Entry” and/or “File Uploads” as an online submission type in the “Submission Types” section.)

Choosing this reveals several customizable options for Turnitin:

 

Multi-Part Turnitin Assignments

While it isn’t possible to create a multi-part Turnitin assignment in Bruin Learn, you can use the following steps to create something similar (say, for a writing assignment with both a rough draft and final essay):

  1. First, create as many separate Assignments as there are parts to the assignment to be submitted.

  2. Then, in the Turnitin settings, set the “store submissions in” option to “do not store the submitted papers” for every part except the final draft. This ensures that the final draft will not be flagged against previous drafts of the same document in the similarity report.

  3. If you are looking to assign a single grade for an assignment based on the average of the scores that students get on different parts of the assignment, you can do so by creating an assignment group:

    1. Navigate to the Assignments tab on the left side toolbar and click on the gray “+Group” button on the top right.

    2. Give the group a name and assign it a percentage of the total grade for the course.

    3. From here, either add a new assignment to the group by clicking the + icon on the top right corner of the group (next to the percentage of the total grade):

      or drag an existing assignment into the group using the 8-dot icon to the left of the assignment name:

    4. To assign weighting to different parts of the same assignment, assign proportional scores to those different parts. (Example: Imagine an assignment in which students submit a first and final draft, where you want the first draft to be worth 40% and the final to be worth 60% of the assignment grade. You could assign 40 points to the first draft assignment and 60 to the final, and the assignment group will aggregate the group score using those proportions.)

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