Now that you understand how a Guided Short Response can help students build writing skills one sentence at a time, you’re ready to create one! Below, you’ll learn how to assign one.
To assign a Guided Short Response, you can follow these steps:
- Select "Browse and Assign" to open the Assignment Library
- Under Assignment Types, select "Writing."
- Under Guided Short Response, select "Browse Prompts." You can also choose "Create your own" to fully customize the assignment with your own prompts and/or sources.
- Under the Short Response tab, choose the type of paragraph you'd like students to write.
- Select the blue arrow next to the desired prompt to start customizing the assignment.
- On the next page, you can change the type of paragraph. Each one contains scaffolding (tutorials, sentence frames, examples, tips, and rubrics) that is specific to that kind of writing.
💡 Changing the paragraph type will automatically update the rubric items. Custom rubric items that you add will persist across different paragraph types unless removed by you.
- You can also customize your prompt, sources, and rubric to better fit your teaching needs.
- Select "Continue" to choose which classes and students you want to assign to the Short Response. You'll also set a start and due date, and create a name for your assignment.
You can assign to the whole class by checking the box next to your class name, or assign to individual students by expanding the "Choose Students" drop-down menu and selecting specific names. This allows you to provide the assignment to individual students instead of the entire class.
- Once you’ve finalized the assignment, select "Assign."
Once you create an assignment, you will be able to add new students that join your class to existing assignments but won't be able to unselect students that have already been assigned.
💡 Ready to assign? Let's create a Short Response Guided Draft!