All About Assignments

Knoword Assignments allow teachers to track their students’ progress and view detailed results for a specific pack. When you create an assignment, you can customize its game settings and share it with students in a few easy steps.

Contents

• Creating an assignment
• Sharing assignments
• Viewing submissions

Creating an assignment

When creating an assignment in Knoword, you have two methods to choose from:

1. Select Create an assignment from the Create… menu in the page header to create an assignment based on one of your own packs.
2. Choose Assign pack from any pack’s action menu to assign any pack, including ones created by other users that you may have found through Knoword’s search or browse features.

Once you’ve selected a pack, you can configure the assignment’s game settings. These include:

• Time limit: Set a time limit for students to complete the game, or remove the timer for a more relaxed experience. Playing without a timer also ensures that your students encouter every word in the pack before the game ends.
• Enable progress bar: Shows a bar that tracks how many terms students have completed out of the total, giving a visual guide to their progress.
• Disable time rewards: Stops extra time from being added after each correct answer, keeping the timer consistent.
• Game mode: Choose between Classic mode, where students type the word based on its definition and first letter, or Simple mode, where they select the correct word from three choices. Classic mode offers many further customizations:
  • Hide first letter: In classic mode, you can hide the first letter hint to make the game more challenging.
  • Hide typing feedback: Players won’t see how close they are to a correct answer or know if they’ve made a mistake, adding an extra layer of challenge.
  • Disable hints: Prevents hints from being awarded, even when students build a long streak of correct answers.
  • Strictness settings: You can enable stricter rules for punctuation, capitalization, and accents. Knoword is normally very lenient about these things, but in some cases, it’s important to test a student’s knowledge of accents and puncutation.

If you select Simple as the game mode, and your selected pack contains only image clues, you’ll see another option for Image match mode. Selecting this option will flip the usual multiple choice game format, and the game will present a word or phrase as a clue, and the player must choose an image that matches the word.

You can also set a due date for the assignment, preventing submissions after the deadline. However, students will still be able to submit if they began the game before the due date passed.

Additionally, you can include notes that will appear before the assignment is started, offering guidance or additional context.

Sharing assignments

Students can complete assignments without creating a Knoword account. They’ll be prompted to enter their name or any identifier that their teacher can recognize them by (such as a student number or their initials) before starting the game. Teachers can share assignments with their classes in the following ways:

• Assignment link: After creating an assignment, click on the More actions button and select Copy link to copy the assignment URL to your clipboard. You can then share the link with your students via your desired method of communication.
• Google Classroom: If you use Google Classroom at school, you can integrate it seamlessly with Knoword. Click on the More actions menu, select Share to Classroom, and follow the prompts to share the assignment with your class(es).

Viewing submissions

Once students have completed their assignments, you can view their submissions on the assignment details page. A scatter plot at the top of the page highlights the success rate and frequency of submissions over time. Results are also listed in a table below the chart, allowing you to quickly see when each submission was made, who made it, and how they performed.

Knoword Pro members can click on individual rows in the table to see which words each student answered correctly and which ones they skipped. This feature helps teachers identify common learning gaps and adjust their instruction accordingly. Here’s an example of what that looks like: