I upload my own content a lot. Actually, uploaded content is all I've used so far for assignments because we haven't upgraded to premium yet. My question is this: once students have submitted an assignment that I created from uploaded content, is there any way for the student to access that uploaded piece again to practice it? On the teacher side, there is a category on the homepage where I can find all of my uploaded content and open or assign it. However, on the student side I can't find any place where I can access content previously uploaded or assigned by the teacher. I can review assignments after I've turned them in, but that only allows me to watch and listen to my submitted take. (As a side note: does it also work like this with premium for things I assign from the catalog? Without having premium yet, I can't tell if this is an issue just related to uploaded content.)
The temporary solution I've thought of is to assign the entire uploaded piece to students and label it as a "practice assignment" so students don't submit it and lose access to it for practicing, but that tends to clutter things up and confuses some students. I hope the option I've described is already available and I'm just missing something simple, but if the ability for students to access teacher-uploaded content after submission does not currently exist, it should definitely be a feature request.
It would be great to have a category or folder of some sort in the students' homepage for both uploaded content and teacher-designated content from the catalog where students can fully access and practice anything designated and made accessible by the teacher. This would be like a custom classroom repertoire folder for the year/semester. The teacher should be able to manage what is in that folder and be able to add, change, or delete things from it throughout the year.
So basically my goal with this program is I want to be able to upload a bunch of custom exercises and pieces at the beginning and throughout the year and allow students to access and practice them as much as they want right from the beginning (without due dates or having anything to do with the gradebook). Then throughout the year, I want to be able to create assignments from that uploaded content, and at that point I can specify criteria and assign certain measures for submission, which would apply to the gradebook. This would allow students to work at their own pace with clear goals in mind without me micromanaging every single student and having a ton of duplicate and overlapping assignments that clutter things up. A talented and dedicated student could work ahead on exercises that are more appropriate for his level, or start working on content in the fall that we'll be using for our spring concert--and all without the fear of losing access to it at any point.
Device: Laptop
OS: Windows 7
All students use a school-issued laptop. Although many use their own device at home.