Individually assign folders (enterprise)

Overview

Individually assigning folders empowers educators to:

• Provide students with differentiated content without assigning each material individually.

• Create personalized folders to support one-on-one instruction.

• Deliver tailored content to support students with accommodations or learning needs.

• Create different lesson paths and assign them to students based on their interests.

Only students individually assigned a folder will have access to the folder and its materials from the course materials page.

For information on individually assigning materials, refer to the article Individually assign course materials.  

Individually Assign is not available on Schoology Basic.

Individually assign a folder

1. Navigate to your course materials page.

2. Click the folder’s gear icon.
   Alternatively, select the folder and click Options.

3. Select Individually Assign from the list.

4. Enter or select the students.
   Alternatively, select grading groups.

5. Click Next to review the assignees.

6. Click Assign. An Individually Assign icon indicating the number of students or grading groups assigned will be displayed with the folder. Click the Individually Assign icon for details.

• If some students have already completed an item that is later individually assigned to specific students, the scores for the students not included when individually assigned will temporarily "disappear" from the gradebook. They will reappear once the item is reassigned back to the entire class or the affected students. To circumvent this, you can create copies of the item to individually assign, rather than reassigning a single version.

• If you sync grades from Schoology to an SIS, individually assigned items sync to the SIS gradebook and are visible to all students in the course. Students not assigned this item will view the assignment title but no grade will be passed to the SIS gradebook.

• Completion Rules can be applied to individually assigned folders.

Edit assignees

1. Navigate to your course materials page.

2. Click the folder’s gear icon.
   Alternatively, select the folder and click Options.

3. Select Individually Assign from the list.

4. Edit the assignees:

   • Click delete for the student or group to remove.

   • Enter or select the students to add. Alternatively, select grading groups.

   • Select Make Available to Everyone to remove students who are individually assigned and make the folder accessible to all students enrolled in any sections where it is published.

5. Click Next to review the changes.

6. Click Assign.

• If you remove a student from a grading group, all previous submissions completed while the student was a group member still apply to the student's grade.

• If a folder is assigned to both a grading group and a specific student within that group, the student will keep access to the folder regardless of changes to the group's or the student's individual assignment status.

Edit assignees of a folder material

Edit assignees of a specific material in a folder that is assigned to students or grading groups at the folder level. You cannot edit assignees directly in the material.

To edit the assignees for that material, move it out of the assigned folder.

For information on individually assigning materials, refer to the article Individually assign course materials.  

Edit materials in an assigned folder

• If materials or sub-folders are moved out of an individually assigned folder, the content will retain the assignees. After the content has been moved out of the assigned folder, you can edit the assignees.

• When you move materials that are not individually assigned into an individually assigned folder, the materials will be assigned to the assignees set in that folder.

• When you move a material that is already individually assigned into an individually assigned folder, the material’s previous assignees will change to the assignees set in that folder.

• When you move material from an individually assigned folder into a different individually assigned folder, the material’s assignees will change to the assignees set in the destination folder.

Delete an individually assigned folder

When you delete an individually assigned folder, the materials will no longer be accessible to those it was assigned to.

• You can restore the items from the Course Recycle Bin, but you cannot restore the folder. If you restore the items to the course materials page, they will retain the assignees that were set before the folder was deleted.

• To restore the original folder structure, recreate the folder with the same assignee settings, and then restore the materials to that folder.

• If you move materials to a folder with different assignees, the assignees will change to those of that folder

Manage assigned folders from the Schoology mobile apps

The Individually Assign settings of a folder cannot be edited from the Schoology iOS or Android apps. These settings must be adjusted from a browser.

Students can access individually assigned content from the mobile apps.