Everything you build lives in the Library, a top-level row in the left rail. There is one construct in it: a folder. Your own work is in folders, anything a colleague hands you arrives as a folder, and sharing is something you do to a folder rather than to one assignment at a time.
The two folders you start with
My assignments and My rubrics are already there on your first visit, and they fill themselves: every assignment and every rubric you own shows up without being added. My assignments lists PAIRS, the prompt with its rubric named underneath, because the pair is the thing people reuse.
These two are your complete inventory, so they cannot be shared, renamed or deleted. Sharing one would quietly hand over everything you make later. Make a folder for what you actually want to hand over.
Making a folder and putting work in it
Two doors, same act:
- From the folder: open it and choose Add items, then tick the assignments or rubrics to file.
- From the work: on the assignment builder or the rubric builder, the one control in the header reads Add to folder. It opens the same dialog, with this page's assignment and rubric already listed.
A new folder is private until you share it, and the control says so. Filing into a private folder tells you "Not shared yet"; filing into one you have already shared just says which folder it went into.
Sharing a folder
Open the folder and choose Share. You can hand it to a person by name or email address, to a group you made, to everyone at your school, or to the public library. There is one level of access: anyone you share with can open the folder and take copies. Sharing with an address that has no account yet creates a pending invitation and provisions nothing; it resolves when that person signs up.
Removing a row takes access away immediately. Copies already taken are untouched, and anything shared can be copied and shared onward, which the dialog says out loud.
If you are a grantee rather than the owner you see who shared it and how many people have it, never the list of names.
Groups
The Folders / Groups switcher at the top of the left column swaps to your groups. A group is a private contact list of people, yours alone, and nobody else can see it. Share a folder with a group and everyone in it gets access; add somebody to the group next term and they get access too, with nothing to re-share. Removing a member tells you which folders they lose before you confirm, and that their copies stay theirs.
Putting something into your class
Every row in the Library carries the same two controls: a folder glyph (file it into one of your folders) and a schoolhouse (put it into a class). The schoolhouse asks which class and says plainly what travels: the prompt, the rubric and its grading setup, and no students, papers or grades. A folder header also offers Add all to a class.
What you take is YOURS. It is a copy under your name, in your class, and editing it changes nothing for the person who shared it or for anyone else who took it.
Where a copy came from, and updates
A copy you took carries a small chip on its row naming the folder it came from. An assignment that arrived with its rubric wears one on each row, both naming the same folder. Click a chip for two choices: open the folder, or stop following, which lets go of both rows at once. Editing your copy changes nothing about the chip: adapting what you took is the point of taking it.
When the owner publishes a newer version, the chip on the row that CHANGED turns blue with a download arrow. If she reworded the rubric and left the prompt alone, only the rubric row lights up. Clicking either chip opens the same comparison: a plain verdict first, then one line of summary, then a card per half, prompt above rubric, each with its own Update or Skip and its own consequence. A half she did not touch is named and left alone.
Nothing is ever applied to your class without you. If you have already graded papers and the change moves scoring, you are asked what to do about the grades before anything changes, and an update sends nothing to students until you release. Whatever you skip, your copy moves to the new version and you will not be asked about those changes again; Not now is the answer that keeps the question open.
If the owner stops sharing the folder, the chip says so and names them, your copy keeps working exactly as it did, and you can dismiss the notice.
What the Library does not do
- It does not grade anything. Every class grades its own papers against its own copy of the rubric.
- It does not push changes. An update is offered; you decide.
- It does not show anyone your work unless you shared the folder it is in.