When you create an assignment, the first choice is what kind of work it is. That choice decides where students go when they open it, how Intertwined decides they're done, and whether your plan includes it. This article walks through every type you can create on the Create Assignment page, so you know exactly what a green "done" means before you rely on it.

Available on: reading, quizzes, Calculators, Glossary, Financial news and Arcade games can be assigned on every plan, including Free. Simulators and the OpenStax tool need a plan that includes them (details below). Twine Town checkpoints are offered only in classes using Personal Finance Core Foundations (3e) with Twine Town turned on.

It helps to know that types fall into two groups:

Either way, "done" is about completion, not quality. For how well students did, look at the Gradebook and the class analytics.

A section's lessons. Choose a course, a unit and one or more sections; each section becomes its own assignment, named "Reading ·" plus the section's number and name. The student lands on the section's first lesson.

Done when: the student has completed every lesson in the section. The section quiz doesn't count toward a reading assignment. The completion time is when they finished the last of those lessons.

If you'd like the quiz as well, tick Also assign the section quiz. That creates a separate quiz assignment for each section, so you can see who did the reading and who finished the quiz as two different things.

A section's quiz on its own, named "Quiz ·" plus the section's number and name. Pick sections the same way as for reading; sections without a quiz are skipped, and the page tells you how many.

Done when: the student finishes that quiz. How the quiz itself works (retries, first-try accuracy, copy protection) is in How quizzes and assessments work.

Under Simulator, choose Budget simulator, Economy simulator, Startup simulator, Investing simulator or Business simulator. The student is taken to that simulator. You also set what it's Worth in points (100 to start), because a simulator assignment gets its own column in the Gradebook with a suggested score for each student based on how they played. See Simulator scores in the Gradebook.

Done when: the student clicks Mark done on their Assignments page. This is a self-report, so treat it as "says they've played" and use the Gradebook suggestion or the class's Simulators tab to see what they actually did.

Plans:

Set the simulator up for the class before you assign it, so students can start right away. The Simulators tab in your classroom explains how.

Under Student tools, choose one page for students to visit:

Done when: the student clicks Mark done. These are "go and look at this" assignments, a good fit for a warm-up or a research task.

Under Arcade game, choose a game from the Arcade. Preview this game opens it in a new tab so you can try it first. Arcade games are available on every plan. More on the games in The Arcade: teacher guide.

Done when any of these happens first:

Three minutes is meant to separate "played it" from "clicked and left", not to prove they finished the game.

A goal in each student's own Twine Town life. This tile appears only for a class using Personal Finance Core Foundations (3e) with Twine Town turned on. Choose one:

Done when: the first time the student's town meets the goal. Students never mark it themselves. A checkpoint is due at 11:59 PM on its due date (a week out to start), is worth 10 points by default, and a student who meets it by the due date gets a full suggested score in the Gradebook. If Twine Town is later turned off for the class, unfinished checkpoints drop off students' lists until it's back on. See Twine Town: teacher guide.

No. Reading and quiz assignments look at the student's progress in the course, whenever it happened. A student who already finished shows as done right away, and because their finish time is before the due date, they count as on time.

No. Those are tracked from the lessons and quiz themselves, and there's no Mark done button for them.

Simulator completion is the student's own Mark done click. For an honest picture, open the simulator column in the Gradebook or the class's Simulators tab.

Before reading and quizzes became separate types, a section assignment covered a section's lessons and its quiz together. Those older assignments still work and count as done when every lesson and the quiz are finished. New assignments use Reading material and Quiz instead.

Not as its own assignment. The Calculators tool opens the full Calculators page; name the calculator you want in class.