zyBooks provides instructors the ability to view/download student activity completion by a given date or within a given date range.
Instructors who wish to impose penalties for late work can manage these penalties outside of zyBooks, typically in a learning management system. zyBooks can report the raw score of points earned for selected sections within a selected date range. Instructors can then use this data however they may wish.
To determine whether or not a student completed work after a given deadline, please review the following recommended methods.
Assignments
zyBooks optionally allows instructors to create "Assignments" in a zyBook. To learn more about creating or editing assignments, please see our guide, How to create/edit an assignment.
An "Assignment" in the context of a zyBook is a group of sections a student is expected to complete.
Instructors have the option to add a due date to an assignment, but due dates are NOT required.
Manually downloading reports
When downloading a report for an assignment,
- If a due date is provided, all student scores will reflect student work as completed by the provided due date.
- If a due date is not provided, all student scores will reflect student work completed by the exact time of download.
- Instructors can change the due date at any time. The downloaded report will reflect work completed by the newly assigned due date. This provides instructors the option to download a report with one deadline, then download a secondary report with a different deadline, and compare the two reports to determine if a student's score was better in the first report or the second.
To learn more about how to download and read a downloaded assignment report, please see our guide, How to download reports for Assignments.
Learning Management Integration
zyBooks can be directly integrated with Learning Management Systems via LTI. When a zyBook is integrated, zyBooks is able to send Assignment scores directly to an LMS grade book. To learn how to connect a zyBook to an LMS, please see our guide, Getting started with LTI/Single-Sign-on.
Once connected, and integration is set up
- If a zyBooks due date is provided, zyBooks will send students for scores anytime they earn a new point up until the due date. If students continue to work past the zyBooks due date, we will continue to record their work, however, this work will NOT be counted towards the assignment and will NOT be transferred to the LMS gradebook.
- If a zyBooks due date is NOT provided, zyBooks will send students for scores anytime they earn a new point.
Any time a score is sent to an LMS, the following data is sent:
- The student's latest score
- The "Submitted at" timestamp
As such, LMS's can utilize the timestamp to determine whether or not the score was sent to the LMS by an LMS due date.
Reporting
Instructors who do not pre-create assignments, or who wish to have more flexibility when downloading scores can download a student's score report from the "Reporting" tab. To learn more about how to download a read a score report, please see Downloading activity (score) reports.
When downloading a score report, instructors can use the date pickers to select a date.
A quick preview of Student's average completion will be visible on the left. All scores will reflect work completed by the selected date.
Instructors can use the check boxes to select which chapters/sections they wish to see scores for.
Side note: the more sections that are selected, the more data the report will contain, and the longer it will take to download the file. Typically, downloading one chapter at a time produces a reasonable file size and keeps the files organized and easy to read.
Instructors can download multiple reports for the same chapter with different due dates to determine if students continued working past a desired due date.
Why don't assignments have an explicit late due date?
We strongly favor simplicity, and believe adding another system for managing late work complicates our tool and instructor workflows. The current experience prioritizes simplicity, flexibility, and clarity.