Google Assignments - Student Instructions

Finding your assignment

  1. In your course, click on the assignment. 
  2. When the assignment opens, you'll be asked to sign in to the Google Assignments tool.
  3. Click on the Sign In button
    Google Account sign in window.

  4. Sign in with your Highline Student Email account. That's the one that starts with your MyHighline login name and ends in @students.highline.edu.
     Google account sign in window highlighting the email text box.
     
  5. To start submitting your assignment, click on the "Open to attach and submit" button.
    Google Assignment window, showing "Open to attach and submit" highlighted.

Attaching your file(s) 

Once you click on “Open to attach and submit,” a new browser tab or window will open. If the instructor has set this up, you might see a rubric, and also a template file.

When you're ready to complete the assignment, you can either open a file, if you've completed the assignment already, or create a new file.

  1. Click on Add files, if you already have a file written, or Create, if you are starting a new document to respond to the assignment.
    Student submission page, showing Add Files and Create buttons highlighted

  2. If you click on Add files, you can choose a file from your Highline student Google Drive.
     Google drive window, showing My Drive highlighted. 

  3. Click on the Add button to select the file. 
    Google Assignments window, showing the Add button highlighted.

  4. Once you have added all the files you want to include in the assignment, click on the Submit button. 
    Screenshot of assignment submission showing one attached file, and the submit button. The file is highlighted, and an arrow points to the submit button. 

  5. You'll see a message checking to be sure you want to submit, click Submit again.
    The Google Assignment window, showing with submit highlighted. 
    Important: You must click “Submit” for your instructor to be able to score the assignment. 

  6. Once the file is submitted, you'll see the “success” screen. 

    Submission complete screen, showing status in top right corner, You're All Set graphic in the middle, and Unsubmit button in lower right corner 

     

Self-checking Plagiarism

If your instructor has enabled the plagiarism checker for this assignment, you can check to see if there are parts of the assignment copied from the internet. You can run this report up to three times for each assignment. 

  1. Click “Run originality report.” 
    Student assignment screen, with Run Originality Report button highlighted 

  2. Once the originality report is ready, the click on “View originality report”:
    Student submission screen with View Originality Report button highlighted 

  3. This is what a report looks like. Flagged passages indicate material that matches something found on the internet. Something that is flagged may not be plagiarized, if it is properly quoted and cited. 
    Originality report, showing 5 flagged passages 

  4. Click on each one of these to expand it. Google Assignments will show you the text from the assignment, the text it found on the internet, and the link to that web page. 
    Originality report detail, showing student's text and similar web match from Chegg 

  5. To edit your work, you must go back to the original Google doc. In the Google Assignments window, click on the x to remove your file from the submission.
    student.click.on.x.png 

  6. Go back to Google docs and revise the file.
  7. “Add file” again, to either re-submit or to 

 

Viewing Grades

When the instructor has finished grading your work, you can see the result in the Canvas grade book, and also by clicking on the assignment.
Student assignment showing a grade (7/10) and a copy of the submitted assignment. Assignment status has been changed to Graded.  

 

You can also see the rubric:
Screenshot of graded rubric, showing blue bars on the levels selected by the instructor, and points earned for each criteria and in total