So again, one of the major goals of this conversion from class sessions to Schedule Builder is to make assignment due dates really obvious to students because it's not something class sessions did very well.

So if you recall earlier, I showed you inside one of the pages or inside one of the class sessions that there was a reflection assignment that goes along with.

This lecture is due on August 9th.

Well, here's the Dropbox here for that reflection, and the due date is listed in the text.

It's not listed on this page anywhere, which makes it really hard for students to keep track of when assignments are due.

So how do we address that?

So I'm back here on Schedule Builder and I'm going to add a new event specifically so that this Dropbox due date shows up.

So click on Add new event and I'm going to then associate that event with a Dropbox in my class.

So I click on Associate event with and select Dropbox and then it shows me the different drop boxes I have in my course and I'm going to select first Reflection and it's going to import that due date there for students right?

So that they know that this reflection is due on, say, September 4th because that's the date I've set as being the due date there.

Now I can also because it doesn't really matter when this Dropbox is available to students, I don't want to show the date that it's available on, so I can just go ahead and hide that available date because it's irrelevant because all I want to focus is on the due date here.

So I selected Dropbox first Reflection due date of September 4th.

I select save, it gets added to my calendar.

I just need to move it into the right place here and I'll say right here.

Dropbox First Reflection is due on September 4th and it says Thursday, August 3rd is the open date.

Well that's just something that I see here on the Schedule Builder tool, but if I go to the content page with students, you'll notice that oh, that little available date no longer exists.

I have a link to it because the available date was today's date, but you'll notice the due date is highlighted for students here Monday, September 4th.

And on that due date, students will get an e-mail reminder saying, Hey, this Dropbox is due today.

So again, it helps students keep track of due dates and gives them reminders about when content is due.

So you want to ensure that every single due date, quiz, Dropbox, survey, peer assessment, whatever it might be in your class, is reflected on the schedule.

So if you may remember, there were some quizzes in here buried in some of these class sessions.

For example, we had a practice quiz for the midterm.

On one class session that's now buried in here, there was a quiz on the readings from weeks one and two that was buried on another page.

We want to highlight this.

We want to highlight these things for the students in our class.

So I go back to Schedule Builder, I say add new event and I'm just going to start by going right down here to Quiz and it's going to select the practice quiz for the midterm.

That was something that was on there.

Now I can import the quiz dates that are already set in the quiz generator for the quiz so I don't have to set them up, which is great.

It saves me time and typing there.

And if I make changes here, like let's say I want to make this quiz available on September 4th, that information will then be updated automatically in the quiz generator.

It syncs the dates back and forth, which is super handy.

There.

You also notice that the due date and the access end date are pretty much the same thing here, right?

So that students can no longer have access to this item after the due date of September 8th at 11:59 PM, I save this gets added to my calendar, and now I just insert it into the right place into my schedule.

I also needed to do that for the quiz on on the readings for weeks one and two.

So I'm going to go ahead and do this again and say add new event, quiz and quiz.

For readings from week one and two.

I say yes.

I want to use the dates that are in the quiz generator.

Although I'm noticing there's going to be some overlap in my dates here because Week 2 doesn't end until Friday, September 8th.

So maybe I'll make this available at the beginning of week two and then make this quiz due at the end of week two.

And I can save that knowing that my dates will get synced up to the quiz generator there.

So my session gets added for the quiz and I'm going to put this at the end of Week 2 down here.

So again, it's very important that you surface all of the due dates for all the assignments, all of the activities in your class.

And this particular course has final presentations in it.

So I created a signup sheet to allow students to sign up for their final presentations to make things much easier.

So I want to include that because that's another activity in this class that students need to know about and know there's sort of a due date for.

They have to sign up by a specific date.

Now, I don't want to put that all the way down here because students are going to sign up for their presentations long before the presentations actually happen in the class.

It's kind of, it's the kind of thing I'll probably want to put at the very beginning of my class.

So I'm going to find signup sheet, there it is from my associated event with drop down and it's going to put this in here and I'm going to say, OK, let's see this says signup start on August, September 16th.

Well, I'm going to have it start on the first day of class instead, right?

And then the signups are due by September 16th because that gives students plenty of time to sign up.

I save that, put that here in the beginning of my class.

Maybe I'll put it right after the first class session there.

And again, I'm highlighting due dates for my students so that if I go back over to my main content age when things are due, suddenly becomes a whole lot more clear to students in my classes.

Which is really, really helpful, right?

They're able to see that when they have due dates, and that's really important to them.

Being able to find these due dates is really important.

And by making sure that every single assignment or activity has a representative due date on the schedule, you're making things much easier for the students in your class.

So one quick gotcha that sometimes trips people up is they will link up a quiz in their course site onto Schedule Builder, but then they'll go and make a new version of the quiz, deleting the old one and replacing it with a new one.

So let me show you what I mean by this.

So here I am in the quiz generator, I had a quiz called Quiz on readings from weeks one and two, and that was for last year.

That was the one.

I didn't say academic year 2022, but I made a new one for 2023, right.

So I'm like, cool, I made this new one, but I'm going to go ahead and delete this old quiz from last year because I don't really need that that quiz anymore at all, right?

So I'm going to go ahead and delete that quiz.

Well, the problem is, is that the item on Schedule Builder was linked to the quiz you just deleted.

So if I go back to Schedule Builder and click on this item for that quiz, you'll notice it says quiz, but it's not linked to anything here, right?

And so that link won't work when the time comes for students to take the quiz.

So what you need to do if you happen to have an item that was linked like a quiz and it was linked to Schedule Builder, you need to go back into Schedule Builder and then select the new one from that from the drop down next to Quiz there.

This is something that trips people up, particularly with quizzes or drop boxes.

They'll delete the old one and then think, Oh well, Schedule Builder will automatically relink it to the new one.

Nope, it doesn't do that.

You do need to go back and relink it when you delete something and are replacing it with a new version in here, like a new version of a quiz or a new version of a Dropbox or something like that.

So I save it and now I'm good to go for my quiz for this year.