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Written assignments, eg. essays, reports, case studies, etc. will be submitted online in the relevant unit site.  There will be a submission spot for each assignment. 

This is the assignment submission icon:  
Lecturers have different ways of naming assignments; some name it the same as in the Unit Outline; others name it, eg. Assignment 1; others, eg. Assessment 1, Assessment Task 1; some put the due date in the name.   But the icon is always the same.  If it is not clear from the name at the submission spot which assignment it is, please ask your lecturer to make it clearer.

Submissions spots may be at the top of the site; or in a section called Assessments, etc.; or in the week/topic in which they are due.   Make sure you know where they are! 

To upload written assignment as a file:

1. Unless otherwise directed, upload as a Word document, so that your lecturer can insert comments.  Insert a header in your assignment with your name, and the name of the assignment in it.  NOTE: Assignment cover sheets are now only required for offline submissions.  Please keep the file name on your assignment reasonably short, without punctuation, or symbols, except for hyphen  -  and underscore _ and preferably only one full stop before the file type (at the end of the file name).  Longer file names, and various symbols, or punctuation marks,  can cause technical problems.  
   EG.  J Smith CHCCOM005 Assignment 1.docx 
   
2. Go to the relevant assignment submission spot on your subject site. Submission spots have this icon:  
3. Click on button. (If this button does not appear, see your lecturer, or send a Helpdesk ticket).
   
4. Tick the 'I certify that this assignment..............' statement (if your assignment is  your own work!) 
   
5. You can either drag and drop your assignment file, or you can add and browse to find your file.
   
1. To drag and drop:  set the VET Learn window as less then full screen (click Restore down button next to cross in top right hand corner), and pull in sides to it takes up about half of your screen. 
2. Open the folder where your file is, restore down, so it is sitting beside your web browser window.  
3. Left mouse click on your file, and holding mouse, simply drag over to the blue arrow, in File Submissions box, and let mouse go:
   
   
    
   Your file will upload.  Note: the file will not be removed from the folder on your computer.
   
4. OR: Add and browse: click on the little Add button top left corner of the submission box:  
   
5. Click on Upload a file, in the file picker window.  Click Choose file, or Browse (depends on your web browser)
6. This takes you to your folders on computer.  Find file and double click. 
   
7. Click Upload this file.  Save changes.
   
6. Either way, your assignment is uploaded and you will receive an automatic alert to your email inbox to say it has been successful.  Your lecturer will also receive an email to let them know you have submitted your assignment.  Your submitted file, or when you return to the submission spot, will appear as:
   
   
   
   As long as you see the file at File submissions line, it is correctly submitted. 
   
   

Video:  To submit an assignment which is a Word document

Note:  this video is taken from Tabor Online, Tabor's Higher Ed online site, but it is very similar.

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To submit an online assignment:

1. An online assignment is one where the student clicks on the assignment submission spot, is presented with a question/s, or instructions, and the Add submission button.   You will most likely not have already answered in a Word document. 
   
2. Click on Add submission button, tick the 'I certify..................' statement.  
   
3. Type your answer/s into the Online text box, and click Save changes, and assignment is submitted.
   
4. If you wish to add more text, or edit what you have done, click on Edit submission button, edit your work, and save changes.  Note that you will need to tick the 'I certify.........' statement again. 
   
5. If you have already done the assignment in a Word document, and want to copy and paste the text in, it is important to follow these steps:
   
• Copy your text.
• Come to the answer text box, in the online assignment submission spot
• Click on the Paste special tool:  and paste your text into 1. Content to be pasted.
  
• At 2. Select from where the text was formatted, tick Paste as unformatted text, even if the source is a Word document.  This will strip all the formatting, which is necessary as Word or other source formatting, can cause significant problems.
  
• You can preview at 3. and if happy, click Complete Paste button at 4.  
  
• You can then complete your assignment and Submit. 
  
  

To submit and quiz, or a lesson:

1. Undertake the quiz, or the lesson, and when you have completed this, and are happy with it click Submit all and finish. 
2. Note that a quiz may need to be done in a set time; you will see this when you start the quiz.  And once you start, you will see a timer on the right hand side of the page, underneath the quiz Navigation panel.  You cannot pause this timer! 
   
3. Usually if the student does not complete the quiz in the given time, then the quiz is usually automatically submitted with the answers that have been completed.  If the quiz has not been set to submit all answers when the time is up, you will lose all the work you have done.  It pays to check with your lecturer that the quiz has been set so that all answers are automatically submitted.  Even better, click Submit all and finish before the time ends!