Curriculum Engine (CE) assignments are created for the digital Walch course that is assigned to a class with students. A digital Walch course consists of learning objects of types standard and optional. Standard learning objects are digital versions of lesson components from a print student workbook. Optional components are digital versions of additional teacher only resources from the print teacher resource book. Optional learning objects include online and print/pdf assessments which the teacher can assign to students.
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A teacher’s view of a digital Walch course consists of both standard and optional learning objects (LOs) where the optional LOs have a yellow OPTIONAL tag.
A student’s view of a Walch digital course consists of just the standard LOs.
A teacher must create an assignment with optional LOs such as pre, progress and unit assessments to make them available to students. The standard LOs are already visible to students in their Portfolio but the teacher can add a due date to standard LOs to make them appear on the student’s Portfolio’s Assignments tab along with optional LOs in assignments. 
To create an assignment for optional LOs, you must start with your class under USERS/Classes and scroll down to the course for the class. Optional LOs in assignments must also have a due date set if you want them to appear on the student Portfolio Assignments tab (pictured above).
Video Training | Create, edit or delete assignments
Help Doc | Using quick launch to access assignments
Help Doc | How to create an assignment
Help Doc | Edit an existing assignment
If you are creating an assignment with online assessments, pay close attention to these default properties which you may wish to update when you first create the assignment.
Online assessments are set to practice by default. Click the graded radio button if you want it to be graded.
Click Specify Additional Properties link on the bottom right to see additional settings for assessments. Uncheck Duration if you do not want to limit test time.
And click Assignment Due By to make it appear on the student’s Assignments tab. The “due by” date will block students from launching the assessment after the set date and restrict availability dates will block students from launching the assessment outside the set dates.
Help Doc | specify additional properties for online tasks
Help Doc | difference between graded and practice online tasks
Help Doc | how to set due dates for learning objects
Standard LOs called Interactive Practice Problem (tagged Online Practice Set A) also have these properties. You must exit out of View & Create Assignments to change these properties.
And under Specify Additional Properties, Interactive Practice Problems have these default settings.
Assessment Results
After students have taken their assessments, you can find detailed test results under REPORTS/Item Analysis. The Item Analysis report is available for gradable learning objects such as assessments and interactive practice problems.
Help Doc | see student's responses to each question
The Response Analysis tab contains the student answer details and the top-level display shows answer summary data.
And when you click into a question, it will drill down to question and answer details. This is where you can see the student’s answer to an open response question. The Curriculum Engine currently doesn’t support manual grading so a teacher cannot grade this question in the system to update the assessment’s final score. Walch is working on converting the open response questions to digitally enhanced questions that can be computer scored.
To see detailed results of Interactive Practice Problems or online practice sets, do not select an assignment name in the Additional Assignment dropdown (leave it blank) and select the online practice name in the Learning Object dropdown.
Interactive Practice Problem practice scores can also be found in the Gradebook Report under REPORTS/Gradebook. You need to click into the course title to drill down to see the practice problems taken by students.
Students can see gradable learning object scores on their Assignments tab or the Gradebook.
Help Doc | gradebook report overview
Help Doc | run the Gradebook Report for a Student
Help Doc | student gradebook report