Apple Schoolwork 3.0

Hi Marko. I don’t use Schoolwork at all, but — if you hadn’t mentioned Schoolwork, I would have guessed that this was a Pages-related issue.

Is the difficulty maybe that the attached Pages Doc was created with a Blank Layout template (which requires you to add text boxes, etc. i.e. Document Body option is off), rather than Blank (which embeds directly into the page i.e. Document body option turned on)?

Maybe it’s not that at all and it is a Schoolwork problem, but I thought it might be worth highlighting just in case.

Eoin

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I’m about to try the Assessment feature and from what I can tell from reading the guides, Schoolwork creates an assessment document from whatever file-type you import and only markup tools can be used by students (or teachers) to add to it. So even if the assessment is created in and imported from Pages, the file created is not a Pages file:

1. Note: You can import PDF, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides and image files to create Classwork assessments.
2. Classwork converts your document to an assessment.
3. Use Markup tools to add additional notes or information, then tap Assign.

I’m trying to work out how to use Assessments with essay-length responses in senior school — I’ll let you know how I go.

I’ve now tried the Assessment feature a few times and think it’s very good. Assessments appear to be delivered as a PDF, no matter what you create them in, so students can write or draw on them with an Apple Pencil, or if they have to type then, yes, they have to create a text box. Perhaps this is a challenge at first but they quickly get used to it. There are even some basic style options available (font type, size and weight or style, justification, bullets, etc.) — these have to be chosen when the text is selected.