Pen Pal Assignment
Cheryll Witting
You can create online assignments for students to submit their assignments through Canvas. Students can submit formatted text using the Rich Content Editor, website URLs, annotated files, or uploaded files. They can also submit audio or video recordings by recording new media or uploading existing media.
When allowing file uploads as an online entry option, you can restrict certain types of files for assignment submissions. In the case of restricting assignments with an odd or unusual file type, try adding it to your course to confirm the file is accepted before requesting students to submit the file type. Compound file types are not supported.
If your institution has enabled Google Docs, the Google Apps LTI, or the Microsoft Office 365 LTI, students can upload files from their respective Google Drive or OneDrive account directly. (If only Google Docs are enabled for your institution, students must connect to Google Drive as a web service to submit an assignment as a Google Doc, Google Sheet, or Google Slide.) You can allow Google Drive and OneDrive files as submission types by selecting the File Uploads checkbox when creating an assignment.
When Google file types are submitted as an assignment submission, those files will convert to their Microsoft counterpart file types and appear in the submission as respective Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files. Canvas uses the conversion file type for submissions (and to render supported file types as DocViewer files in SpeedGrader), so if you want to restrict file types to only include Google file types, you must also include the file types for each respective Microsoft file type as well. For instance, if you want to only allow Google Slide submissions, you must include .pptx as a restrictive file type, otherwise Canvas will not show the .gslide files in the Google Doc tab.
Assignment settings are persistent to always remember and display the settings created or edited in the previous assignment in the course. Based on prior assignments, one or more of these options may already be selected for you.
If you allow file uploads, you can choose to restrict submissions to specific file types. To enable this option, click the Restrict Upload File Types checkbox [1]. In the Allowed File Extensions field [2], enter a list of accepted extensions. All file types need to be separated by a comma. You can include spaces, caps, and periods in assignment file names.
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The course is a first-year writing seminar and, as such, is meant to prepare students for the kinds of writing they will be expected to do in college. This assignment was one of three big writing assignments, and it focuses on two kinds of writing: technical writing (explaining mathematical ideas in a way the audience can understand) and storytelling (hooking that audience with some kind of narrative structure). Both of these are useful for the kinds of research papers my students would likely be assigned in future courses.
Drilling down into what the assignment calls for, there are objectives around technical writing, like getting a sense of the mathematical background of the audience and then crafting explanations that work for that audience. There are storytelling objectives, like engaging readers through good openings and building good narrative structures. And there are more general research and writing skills, like selecting topics, finding and evaluating credible sources, and drafting and revising those drafts.
ChatGPT is pretty good at technical writing. You can even ask it to simplify (or complexify) its explanations, so this goal of the assignment is one where AI tools could really be a crutch for students. And as that essay on the Purple machine shows, ChatGPT is pretty good at storytelling, too. My more general writing goals (drafting, receiving feedback, revising) are in trouble, too, since these AI tools are such good wordsmiths.
Might AI tools end up working similarly? For many writing circumstances (say, an email to the campus about parking logistics for the football game), a few prompts to the chatbot will produce something as good as what an expert can write, but experts will still be needed for more challenging writing projects (e.g. providing a struggling student with academic and career advice). Betsy Barre made a similar argument in a recent episode of the Tea for Teaching podcast. And we do find ourselves in that world, what does that mean for my first-year writing seminar?
In an array destructuring from an array of length N specified on the right-hand side of the assignment, if the number of variables specified on the left-hand side of the assignment is greater than N, only the first N variables are assigned values. The values of the remaining variables will be undefined.
The rest property of array destructuring assignment can be another array or object binding pattern. The inner destructuring destructures from the array created after collecting the rest elements, so you cannot access any properties present on the original iterable in this way.
When the regular expression exec() method finds a match, it returns an array containing first the entire matched portion of the string and then the portions of the string that matched each parenthesized group in the regular expression. Destructuring assignment allows you to unpack the parts out of this array easily, ignoring the full match if it is not needed.
Objects passed into function parameters can also be unpacked into variables, which may then be accessed within the function body. As for object assignment, the destructuring syntax allows for the new variable to have the same name or a different name than the original property, and to assign default values for the case when the original object does not define the property.
Here we show how to unpack a property of the passed object into a variable with the same name. The parameter value id indicates that the id property of the object passed to the function should be unpacked into a variable with the same name, which can then be used within the function.
You could have also written the function without that default. However, if you leave out that default value, the function will look for at least one argument to be supplied when invoked, whereas in its current form, you can call drawChart() without supplying any parameters. Otherwise, you need to at least supply an empty object literal.
Object destructuring is almost equivalent to property accessing. This means if you try to destruct a primitive value, the value will get wrapped into the corresponding wrapper object and the property is accessed on the wrapper object.
\n Objects passed into function parameters can also be unpacked into variables, which may then be accessed within the function body.\n As for object assignment, the destructuring syntax allows for the new variable to have the same name or a different name than the original property, and to assign default values for the case when the original object does not define the property.\n
\n Here we show how to unpack a property of the passed object into a variable with the same name.\n The parameter value id indicates that the id property of the object passed to the function should be unpacked into a variable with the same name, which can then be used within the function.\n
If the promised performance requires a rare genius or skill, then the delegee cannot delegate it to the obligor. It can only be delegated if the promised performance is more commonplace. Further, an obligee can sue if the assignee does not perform. However, the delegee is secondarily liable unless there has been an express release of the delegee. That is, if B does want C to teach guitar but C refuses to, then B can sue C. If C still refuses to perform, then B can compel A to fulfill the duties under secondary liability.
Under property law, assignment typically arises in landlord-tenant situations. For example, A might be renting from landlord B but wants to another party (C) to take over the property. In this scenario, A might be able to choose between assigning and subleasing the property to C. If assigning, A would be giving C the entire balance of the term, with no reversion to anyone whereas if subleasing, A would be giving C for a limited period of the remaining term. Significantly, under assignment C would have privity of estate with the landlord while under a sublease, C would not.
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