** Additional Information ** 

The change in updating Interactive Practice Problems (IPP) from optional to standard learning objects impacts usage across the platform. We apologize for any initial confusion this may have caused. The decision to make this change was driven by extensive customer feedback and we are confident that it will ultimately streamline the process of working with and incorporating the online digital tasks into your lessons.

Below is additional information on the impact of this update and how you access and work with these standard IPP learning objects now.

No Assignments for IPP

Teachers no longer need to assign IPP to students in order for them to see the tasks. Students will automatically have access to the IPP once the course has been assigned to them. 

Because of this change, any previously created assignments that contained only IPP tasks have been removed. Any parameters that you set previously — including due dates, restricted periods and additional properties — will still be associated with that learning object, but they are no longer part of assignments.

To access and update parameters for these standard IPP tasks you will now use the Manage Course feature.

Running Item Analysis Report for IPP

When running the Item Analysis Report to get grade results for these standard IPP learning objects, the "Additional Assignment" field can be left blank and the IPP can be selected in the Learning Object drop down field. 

A few key points on the drop down selection for the Learning Object:

• Only those learning objects for which at least one student has submitted a response will be displayed in the drop down.
• The learning objects will be displayed in reverse course hierarchy order. For example, the IPP associated with Unit 3, Topic A, Lesson 2 will be above the IPP for Unit 3, Topic A, Lesson 1 and so forth. This is designed to have the most recent IPP you are working on with students at the top of the listing.

Share IPP to Google Classroom

Now that IPP tasks are no longer part of assignments, to share those tasks to Google Classroom, you will use the Google Classroom links under Manage Course. You can share the IPP to Google Classroom individually, or you can select and share multiple tasks at once.

Student View Updates

The change in IPP to standard has a few small impacts on the student view that we want to highlight:

• Online IPP are now automatically displayed within the course hierarchy. Students can click View Details to see their full digital course materials including these IPP tasks.
• IPP that have a due date attached will still appear on the student's Assignments tab.
  • Any IPP that were originally part of an assignment and had a due date attached will still appear on the assignment tab.
  • Teachers can also add a due date to other IPP under the Manage Course feature. Once the due date is added, those tasks will also appear on the assignment tab for the student.

Have questions? Email or contact us at Customer Success.