Add a Google Assignment to Course Site

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

Open in a new window. You should see Google Assignments load.

If not already logged in, you may be prompted to sign in to your Lehigh Google account. Otherwise, you will skip this step.

Choose your Lehigh Google Credentials > Click Link

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.

In the Pop-up window, authorize Google Assignments to access your Google Drive by clicking "Link" again.

You will only have to link your Lehigh account once per course.

After you link and authorize sharing, you should see the message “No student submissions yet”.

Here you can add a due date, turn on originality reports, and add a rubric.

It is suggested that you leave the points at the default value of 100.

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 on how to submit a google assignment 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 backup 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.