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# Homework Tasks
Homework tasks consist of a title, guidance time for students and guidance text. You can also add links to web pages and upload documents that students can access from home.
Homework tasks can be set up in advance, e.g. by curriculum leaders, ready to be assigned to students and groups when the time comes or can be created on an ad hoc basis by teachers in the classroom, e.g. to set catch-up or extension work for individual students.
Schemes of learning can be used to associate homework tasks with subjects to make it easier for staff to assign them to groups when the time comes.
Students (and their parents) will be able to see homework tasks that have been set for them when the “set date” is reached and can also access a full record of all homework that has been set.
Homework tasks can be accessed from the teacher menu to create or view a task:
**Creating a new Homework Task**
You should click the **Add new task** button to create a new task:
A homework task must have a title. You can set a guidance time for students and guidance text. You can also add links to web pages and upload documents.
If you assign a year group to the task, it will help you locate the task when you want to assign it to a group, but it will not prevent you from assigning it to students in a different year group if you choose to do so.
Similarly, if you link the homework task to a scheme of learning, it will make it easier to assign the homework task to subjects linked to the scheme:
Curriculum leaders and school managers can use the “Master” checkbox to identify a homework task as an “approved” homework set up by a curriculum leader.
Master homework tasks can be assigned as they are or can be used as templates that classroom teachers can copy and tweak to meet their specific needs.
If you want to record the status of the homework (E.g. Late, Complete), you can tick the “Enable tracking” checkbox. As explained in the note, this can be altered each time the task is set.
Finally, provide task details for the students and the resources you would like them to use to complete it.
When uploading a document you will be shown your school’s file storage usage. Where the same document is uploaded to multiple homework tasks, only one copy will be held in GO 4 Schools in order to optimise your use of storage space:
**Working with Homework Tasks**
You should click the **My tasks** button to view tasks you have created or the **All tasks** button to view tasks created by all users in your school:
You can click on the homework task name to open it and see the full details:
From here you can edit the original homework task. The changes you make will be applied in all places where the homework task is used.
Alternatively, you can choose to copy this homework task, leaving the original unchanged.
This option could be used by schools setting homework via Google classroom to add group links to homework. Note: this will create multiple versions of the same task.
When editing, you will be shown which homework task the new one is derived from. This information is shown only when first making the copy:
**Choosing between tracking and/or marking homework**
Some schools have a homework policy that requires homework to be set and tracked, in terms of whether it has been completed or not. Some will also want to record a mark/grade for the homework. GO 4 Schools facilitates both methods provided your school settings have been configured to allow this.
All homework set via GO 4 Schools can be linked to a markbook assessment. This enables staff to enter a mark/grade if they choose to. However, if you wish to track the status of homework then the homework task must have the ‘Enable tracking option’ ticked.
The options available for tracking are: Complete, Incomplete, Late, Student absent when set, Student absent when due.
**Enabling a mark/grade to be recorded for a homework**
This functionality is available to school managers and curriculum leaders only as the homework task must be assigned to a marksheet assessment from within the markbook editor.
First, create an assessment which you will use to record marks awarded for the homework task:
Then click into the adjacent cell in the Homework column to select a homework task to link:
The Quick picks tab will allow you to quickly find homework associated with the linked scheme/s of learning for the subject as these will be displayed first.
To select a homework task, click the radio button then click OK.
To remove a homework task hover over it until the small blue “x” appears and click on it. Be careful not to click the adjacent black “X” as this deletes the assessment:
Once your homework tasks are linked, save the markbook.
Now in the marksheet view, you can tick the box for Homework to see the homework column next to the assessment column. This will be greyed out until the homework set date is reached:
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