Assessment Categories & Modules

1. Categories carry the course weight

Create categories such as Assignments, Quizzes, Midterm, and Final Exam in Course Settings › Assessment Groups. Category weights must total exactly 100%. Modules never add another layer of weight, so the setup feels familiar to Canvas and Google Classroom users.

Scores are pooled by points inside each category. For example, all quizzes inside a 20% Quizzes category share that 20% according to their available points.

2. Modules are the assessments

Open Manage Assessments from the course dashboard, select a category, and create an assessment such as Quiz 1, Assignment 2, or Midterm Exam. An assessment can contain formatted instructions, math, images, a PDF question paper, supporting files, a solution, a rubric, a CLO mapping, and a due date.

A module can be graded directly. This is ideal for a single assignment or a one-question quiz: set its maximum marks, CLO, and rubric and grade it in ZenGrader.

3. Questions / sub-parts are optional

Add questions / sub-parts only when an assessment needs separately graded parts, such as several exam questions with different CLO mappings. Their points are combined inside the assessment and then counted toward its category.

1. Click + Add Question / Sub-part inside the module.
2. Set its title and maximum marks.
3. Attach a rubric (existing or create one on the fly) so ZenGrader has scoring criteria ready.
4. Map a CLO if OBE is enabled, so this question's scores roll up into outcome-attainment reporting.

Submissions, papers, and solutions

For an exam with one answer booklet, choose One submission for the whole assessment. Its questions / sub-parts cannot request separate uploads. If questions need separate files, leave that option off and enable submission only on the relevant questions.

Both levels support formatted instructions, a PDF paper, supporting files, and a written or PDF solution. Solutions remain hidden until the instructor explicitly releases them.

Deadlines and availability dates

Three dates control an assessment, and they do different jobs:

• Available from, the moment students can open it. Before this they see the card and the date it opens; the instructions, the question paper and any attachments are not served.
• Deadline, the due date. Work handed in after it is accepted and flagged late, unless you tick Close submissions automatically at deadline.
• Available until, the last moment new work is accepted. This is how you express "due Friday, late work accepted until Sunday, closed after that".

If you set both an automatic close at the deadline and an available-until date, submissions close at whichever comes first, and the panel tells you which date that is. A per-student extension always wins over the class-wide closing date. After the close, students keep full access to the instructions, their own past submissions and their grades; only new submissions stop. A question / sub-part cannot open before its assessment or stay open after it.