Creating Assignments

Assignment Categories

Quizzibility supports four assignment categories, each designed for a different use case:

• Quiz — A set of questions from your question bank, delivered in a fixed or randomized order. Quizzes can be timed, and you can configure how many attempts students get. Use quizzes for reading checks, exam reviews, or graded assessments.
• Homework — Similar to quizzes but typically with longer deadlines, no time limits, and the option for multiple submissions. Homework assignments work well for practice problem sets.
• Code — A programming assignment with an integrated code editor, test cases, and automated grading. Students write and run code directly in Quizzibility without needing a separate IDE.
• Activity Sequence — A multi-step learning flow that chains together different content types (readings, questions, code exercises, worked examples) into a gated progression. See the Activity Sequences guide for details.

Scheduling: Opens and Closes

Every assignment has an opens_at and closes_at timestamp. Before opens_at, students can see the assignment listed but cannot start it. After closes_at, no new submissions are accepted. You can set different dates per section if your sections meet on different days.

Grace Periods

Life happens. Quizzibility lets you attach a grace period to any assignment — an extra window after the official closes_at during which students can still submit, but their submission is marked as late. You control whether late submissions receive full credit, partial credit, or just completion credit. Grace periods reduce the volume of extension requests while still maintaining clear deadlines.

Practical Tips

Start by deciding the category. If you want students to answer a set of questions, use Quiz or Homework. If they need to write code, use Code. If you want a guided multi-step experience mixing content types, use Activity Sequence.

When scheduling, give students enough lead time to plan — publishing an assignment that opens immediately and closes in two hours catches people off guard. For homework, a window of several days works best. For quizzes tied to a specific class meeting, open the quiz shortly before class and close it at the end.

Link assignments to specs if you are using mastery grading. This way, when you grade an assignment, the specs are automatically updated in the gradebook.