Routine Assignments - Convert Assignments to Routine

Routine Assignments - Convert Assignments to Routine want to create duplicates of an assignment, copy assignment

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Summary

You created an assignment for a student and now you realize that you'll be sending that same assignment to multiple students. You don't want to go through the trouble of copying and pasting that assignment.

What can you do?

Promote your assignment to a routine assignment from the Student Record Assignment Tab

1. Go into edit mode of your assignment 
2. On the right side, under "Routine Assignment Group" you'll see "Assignments with no 'list' assigned".
3. Click into the text field and select a routine assignment group or "no group assigned"
   
4. Navigate to Settings > Routine Assignments & find your promoted assignment

Hot tip: How to increase student engagement in the student portal.

Settings > Webmaster > grab your unique Student Portal link and add an "external link" to each Routine Assignment. When your student receives an assignment via email, they will also receive the link directly to your portal. This returns the student to the portal. CounselMore has done several behavioral studies that showed students are more likely to engage the portal when there is "click convenience."

How many avenues to communication do you leave open?
If a student is able to reach their counselor from email, text, phone, portal, meetings - then the counselor is setting the expectation that they will check all communication channels.

If the counselor would prefer the student communicate using one or two specific channels, then the counselor must reinforce that by not engaging on the other avenues and steering the student's communication back to the chosen line.

Students can leave comments per assignment and click Done when an assignment is complete. 

A counselor can view text messages in app and not be at the end of every message alert. 

A counselor's time is valuable, they shouldn't feel they have to jump each time a message comes in.

To streamline your practice, streamline your response.

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How can I apply the same Assignment and document to several students at one time?

Would you like to know more about the CounselMore Comprehensive Assignments packages? These are pre-written, client-facing that can be used for all high school grades. The assignments package follows the comprehensive college readiness process. Read more here.