Creating and Managing Assignments

Admin Menu

Manage your assignments from the Admin tab on the main menu.

Click Create A New Assignment or view and edit them by clicking the buttons below.

Create Assignment

1. Select your assignment Name and Dates. After the end date students will not receive credit when completing the pop quizzes.
2. Create sequences of lessons by using Prerequisites.
3. Reward students with a lump sum they can use to reinvest in their virtual portfolios after completing the assignment.

Copy an Older Assignment

If you’ve used StockTrak before, you can reuse older assignments by clicking the button Copy Older Assignment. You will still need to set the dates and assignment name after copying over your previous selection of lessons and tasks.

1. Click Copy Older Assignment.

2. Use the Select Tournament dropdown menu to pick the previous session.
3. Use the Select Assignment dropdown menu to select the assignment you wish to copy.
4. Click Copy to bring the lessons into your new one.

Please Note: you will need to set the new assignment name and dates.

Task Selection

You can either select individual tasks by checking the box in front of the lesson/task name, or a whole section by clicking Select All Tasks. Similarly, allow your students to redo the pop quiz to get a better grade by checking the boxes under Select All Retries.

Click the View button to see what’s included in the lesson. The time estimations will give you a rough idea of how long it will take your students to complete each one.

Where to Start

We recommend that every class include the Stock Game – Beginner Lessons as the first assignment. This is a selection of lessons covering basic glossary terms your students will need to know, along with tutorial videos walking them through the different resources available, and how to place their first trade.

If you’re using StockTrak as part of a Personal Finance class, there are 60 articles and activities covering Personal Finance topics like budgeting, insurance, credit, and debt.

If you are using StockTrak as part of an Investments, Portfolio Management, or Derivatives class, you will have additional articles, videos, and trading tasks focusing on options and derivatives trading.

There is also our 10-chapter Investing 101 Beginner’s Investing Course. This is a self-contained investing e-book of 100 investing topics designed for novice students taking part in department-wide or campus-wide investing challenges. Each chapter ends with a vocabulary quiz and chapter exam that can be assigned individually or altogether.

Next Steps

Once you’ve selected all the items you want to include in this assignment, click Create Assignment towards the top of the page. You can edit your lesson at any time from the Edit Assignment Page.

Assignment Report Card

View student progress and grades by either switching to the Report Card option from the drowdown menu at the top of the page. Or you can use the Reports menu and click Assignment Student Progress Report.

Student Dashboard

When students log into their account, the top widget on their dashboard will list all their assignments. By clicking Show Tasks they’ll be able to see the individual lessons in your assignment.