Teacher Assist

Supported Assignments enhance teaching and learning by incorporating powerful tools for insights, follow-up activities, anti-cheating, and an integrated dictionary.

Insights

Insights automatically analyze student performance to provide you with an at-a-glance summary of class progress, identifying who is struggling and why. It’s not an analytics dashboard — it’s a decision-support tool designed to save you time and reduce cognitive load.

Insights help by:

• Identifying struggling students quickly without reviewing every answer.
• Spotting class-wide misconceptions.
• Understanding student reasoning breakdowns.
• Determining next steps, such as re-teaching or targeted student grouping.

Note: Insights will become available for assignments with 10 or more student submissions.

Follow-Up Activities

Once assignment insights are collected, Edpuzzle recommends follow-up tasks based on where the class encountered challenges. With one click, you can generate a short reinforcement quiz or a bite-sized reading that reviews the tricky concepts, preview it, and assign it - no building from scratch!

Anti-cheating

Every Supported Assignment includes a built-in cheating-detection system. Teachers can enable copy-blocking to discourage students from copying text into external tools and also activate paste-blocking to encourage students to articulate their responses independently. Additionally, a simple flag alerts you to potential irregularities that may warrant additional review.

Dictionary

Available for assignments using Edpuzzle Docs, the Dictionary allows students to seamlessly look up definitions for challenging words directly within the assignment. This feature supports multiple languages. You can also track how often each student reached for the dictionary to identify where students encountered difficulties.

How to use Supported Assignments

1. During the assignment creation process, toggle On the option to Teach with Support. 
   By selecting this option, your Supported Assignment allowance will be updated. It cannot be reversed once assigned.
2. Toggle On the Learning Insights option if you’d like to see where students encountered difficulties, what they've learned, and receive recommended follow-up activities.
3. Supported Assignments will always alert to unusual activities with cheating detection, but you can also choose to prevent students from pasting text into responses for open-ended questions as well as prevent them from copying the question text into an external tool. To use these features, toggle On the options to Block Paste and Block Copy.
4. Continue with other assignment settings as needed.
5. Click the "Assign" button at the top of the page, and you're done!

Note: All users have access to the same Supported Assignment tools; however, your specific plan determines the quantity of assignments you may use. More information can be found here: https://edpuzzle.com/pricing.

With Edpuzzle’s Autograde feature, we’ll help grade open-ended questions to save you time and energy. 

Here’s how to use Autograde:

1. 1. Head to the assignment you want to grade and click “X Answers to grade” at the top of the page to access any questions with open-ended responses waiting to be graded.
   2. Click “Autograde” beneath a question.
   3. Enter the ideal answer in the text box that appears.
   4. Click “Autograde” on the right.
   5. Student responses to that question will automatically be compared to the ideal answer and then graded as correct (100 points) or incorrect (0 points).
   6. If you need to make adjustments to the grades at any time, you can do so by using the X and checkmark or the number out of 100 to the right of each student’s response.

Note: Short, succinct ideal answers work best for this feature. If a question requires a long response with a lot of nuances, you may prefer to grade answers manually.

To learn more about viewing your students’ progress and grading, check out this article.

Autograde is just one tool available in Edpuzzle's Teacher Assist suite of tools. To learn more about Teacher Assist, check out this video.

With Edpuzzle’s Question Generator, we’ll use information pulled from a video to generate and embed questions automatically.

Here’s how to use the Question Generator:

1. 1. Select the video you want to use and click “Edit” to open the video editor.
   2. Click on the "Questions" tab above the video.
   3. Click the “Generate Questions” button.
   4. Select the type of questions you’d like to add. You can choose multiple-choice, open-ended, or both. Once you’ve made your selection, questions will automatically be embedded in the video.
   5. You can review and edit the questions in the Video Events sidebar or by clicking on them from the video timeline.
      • To quickly delete any questions you don’t want, click the “Discard” button under the question in the Video Events sidebar.
   6. Assign your video lesson!

This feature can only be used on videos that don’t already have embedded questions. To generate all new questions for a video, you can delete any existing questions, but keep in mind that once a question has been deleted, it cannot be recovered.

Note: Not all videos will have the option to add auto-generated questions. If we don’t have enough information to provide high-quality results, the Question Generator may not be available.

The Question Generator is just one tool available in Edpuzzle's Teacher Assist suite of tools. To learn more about Teacher Assist, check out this video.