Role: Teacher
Estimated time: 2–3 minutes

Why this matters

Inside Assessments, you’ll see two main tabs:

  • My Assessments

  • Assigned

They serve different purposes.

Understanding this distinction makes everything else clearer.

My Assessments = Your Assessment Library

The My Assessments tab, showing reusable assessments with Edit and Assign to Class

Think of My Assessments as your master filing cabinet.

This is where you’ll find:

  • Draft assessments

  • Saved assessments

  • Templates ready to use

  • Assessments you’ve created for this subject/class

You can:

  • Edit them

  • Preview them

  • Duplicate them

  • Assign them when ready

These are your master versions.

Assigned = What Students Have Been Given

The Assigned tab, showing assigned assessments with status, submissions and completion

When you click Assign to Class, something important happens:

Students receive a copy of that assessment at that moment in time.

That assigned version now lives in the Assigned tab.

Here you can:

  • Filter by All, Not Started, In Progress, Completed or Closed

  • See how many students have submitted and the percentage completed

  • See the due date

  • Open an assessment to mark submissions and release results

This is your live classroom view.

What happens if I edit an assessment after assigning it?

This is a common question.

When you assign an assessment:

  • Students receive their own assigned copy

  • That copy does not change automatically if you edit the master

If you return to My Assessments and edit the assessment:

  • It updates the master version

  • It does not change work already assigned

Students continue working on the version they were given.

Simple analogy

🗂 My Assessments = Master template
📤 Assigned = The printed copy handed to students

If you edit the master template after printing, it doesn’t change the printed copies already handed out.

You would need to print and distribute a new version.

Quick flow summary

Create → Store (My Assessments)
Assign → Students receive a copy
Monitor → Track progress in Assigned

Important reassurance

You won’t accidentally overwrite student work by editing your master assessment.

Student submissions remain attached to the assigned copy.

This distinction keeps your planning space separate from your live classroom space.

Current workflow: update a master and assign again

You can edit a reusable assessment in My Assessments after it has been assigned. Your changes update the master version only.

When you assign that master again, TeachersAI creates a new, independent assigned copy using the version that exists at that time. Earlier assigned copies and student submissions do not change.

  • Use Edit when you want to improve the master for future assignments.

  • Use Duplicate when you want to keep two separate master versions, such as a standard task and an adapted version.

This gives you a safe way to refine an assessment without overwriting work students have already received or submitted.