You and your students must use your Lehigh Google Account (lehigh.edu) for Google Assignments and you should only sign into one Google account at a time in your browser. Chrome browser preferred.
Need help with using multiple Google accounts? - Please review: Using Multiple Google Accounts
Before you proceed. The Professor or TA who links their account with the first Google Assignment in the course is the owner of the archived assignment files on their Lehigh Google drive. This cannot be undone.
The primary professor needs to add the first Google Assignment.
In your designated course with editing turned on, start by adding an activity or resource.
Pick Google Assignments tool and then click on Add:
Fill out the following fields:
Activity name: whatever you’d like for your assignment.
Click Show More to edit the Activity description and check desired display options on the course page
Leave all other general and privacy settings at the default
Edit additional settings as needed
Click on Save and display
You MUST select SAVE and DISPLAY, NOT Save and Return to course. |
You should see Google Assignments load. If it's your first time using Google Assignments, you may be prompted to sign in to your Lehigh Google account if not already logged in.
To link your account to Google Assignments:
Click Sign In > Choose (or Add) your Lehigh Google Credentials > Click Link
NOTE: If you’ve accidentally logged in with a non-Lehigh Google account, you will need to select Switch Account to link your Lehigh Google account instead.
You will only have to link your account once per course.
Authorize Google Assignments to access your Google Drive by clicking "Link" again.
After you link your account, you should see the message “No student submissions yet”. Here you can add a due date, turn on originality reports, and add a rubric.
That's it! Your students can now turn in their Lehigh Google Drive files when they open this assignment in Course Site.
Here are directions to share with your students and some troubleshooting tips.
Note: While you won’t need to link your Lehigh Google account again, you will select the Google assignments tool each time to add your assignments. There will also be a folder created in your google drive called “Google Assignments", and a subfolder titled the name of your class. You should not work from this folder it is for backup purposes only. Please only access Google submissions from within Course Site.