Create assignments in Schoolwork
Create an assignment to send students activities, request work from your students, or send announcements. Your students can view assignments across all their classes to keep track of everything they need to complete.
You can send an assignment to your entire class or you can send an assignment to one or more students based on their specific needs. Schoolwork does not support sending an assignment to multiple classes. To assign the same activities and work to more than one class, copy the assignment, then send the new assignment to another class.
If there are co-teachers in your class when you publish or schedule an assignment, your assignment is visible and editable by the other teachers. Draft assignments are not visible to other teachers until you publish the assignment.
Note: You need an Internet connection to publish an assignment. If your Internet connection is interrupted, you can save your assignment as a draft to send at a later time, as long as it doesn’t contain any file attachments.
Create an assignment in Schoolwork
In the Schoolwork app
, tap 
in the upper right of the window.Enter a title for your assignment.
Tap in Assign To, tap a class if you have more than one, tap to add your entire class or one or more students in your class to your assignment (swipe down to search for students), then tap Done.
To set a different due date for your assignment, tap the date, select the date and time you want, then tap Done.
If you add a due date to an assignment, any activities or work a student submits after the due date are late. To turn off a due date, tap
.To set a delivery date for your assignment, tap Deliver, select the date and time you want Schoolwork to publish the assignment, then tap Done.
Specifying a delivery date allows you to create your assignment ahead of time, then specify the exact date and time you want to send the assignment to your students.
To add an activity, tap Add Activities, tap the type of activity you want to add, then choose an activity.
If you added a file, photo, video, or scanned document activity, you can specify how to share the activity by tapping
, then tapping one of the following:Each student can edit their own file: Schoolwork sends each student a copy of the file. You work with each student in their individual file.
Students collaborate together on the same file: Schoolwork sends all students the same copy of the file (iWork file only). You and the entire class work together in the shared file.
Only you can make changes: Schoolwork sends all students the same copy of the file. Students can view the file, but only you and co-teachers can edit the file.
Note: You can only edit the file sharing permissions for new activities. You can’t change the file sharing permissions once you publish activities.
Enter instructional text and include multimedia for your assignment.
Do one of the following:
If you’re ready to publish your assignment, tap Publish.
If you specified a delivery date, tap Schedule. Schoolwork saves the assignment in the Scheduled tab to send on the specified date and time.
If you aren’t ready to publish or schedule your assignment, tap Cancel, then tap Save as Draft to save it as a draft to send at a later time.
To view an assignment you saved as a draft, tap Drafts in the sidebar.
Create an assignment from another iPadOS app
Open an iPadOS app that supports Share with Schoolwork, then open an activity to use in your assignment.
Do one of the following:
For iWork apps: Tap the More button, then tap the Share button.
For other apps: Tap the Share button.
In the first section of share options, tap Schoolwork (swipe left for more options if necessary).
Schoolwork displays the New Assignment pop-up pane and adds your new activity (app, file, photo, video, link).
Enter a title for your assignment.
Tap in Assign To, tap a class if you have more than one, tap to add your entire class or one or more students in your class to your assignment (swipe down to search for students), then tap Done.
To set a different due date for your assignment, tap the date, select the date and time you want, then tap Done.
If you add a due date to an assignment, any activities or work a student submits after the due date are late. To turn off a due date, tap
.To set a delivery date for your assignment, tap Deliver, select the date and time you want Schoolwork to publish the assignment, then tap Done.
Specifying a delivery date allows you to create your assignment ahead of time, then specify the exact date and time you want to send the assignment to your students.
Enter instructional text for your assignment.
If you added a file, photo, or video activity, you can specify how to share the activity by tapping
, then tapping one of the following:Each student can edit their own file: Schoolwork sends each student a copy of the file. You work with each student in their individual file.
Students collaborate together on the same file: Schoolwork sends all students the same copy of the file (iWork file only). You and the entire class work together in the shared file.
Only you can make changes: Schoolwork sends all students the same copy of the file. Students can view the file, but only you and other teachers can edit the file.
Do one of the following:
If you’re ready to publish your assignment, tap Publish.
If you specified a delivery date, tap Schedule. Schoolwork saves the assignment in the Scheduled tab to send on the specified date and time.
If you aren’t ready to publish or schedule your assignment, tap Cancel, then tap Save as Draft to save it as a draft to send at a later time.
To view an assignment you saved as a draft, tap Drafts in the sidebar.
Create assignments by importing content
In the Schoolwork app
, tap Imports in the sidebar, then tap 
in the upper right of the window.Search for a file or navigate to a file, then tap the file to import the content.
You can import content from a Common Cartridge file (CC 1.0 to 1.3). See Common Cartridge.
To rename the imported info, tap the name, then enter a new name.
Tap to select the content you want to import as new assignments and activities, then tap Import.
Schoolwork imports your content and displays the new assignments in Imports. To delete a group of imported assignments, tap Delete All in Imports. Before an import is complete, if you want to stop importing the assignments, tap Cancel Import in Imports.
Important: Imported assignments are not visible to students and co-teachers until you copy the assignments, add recipients, and publish the assignments.
When creating assignments, keep the following in mind:
You can add up to 20 activities per assignment.
Assignments can’t contain a file larger than 2 gigabytes (GB).
You can have up to 200 active assignments in a class.
When you create an assignment from an app and add a file, a copy of the file is added to your assignment. To edit the shared copy, open the new file in iCloud Drive or Schoolwork.