We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. Google's school-focused branch G Suite for Education announced Assignments today, in a company blog post. The software blends together several Google programs including Google Search and Google Drive and streamlines the assignment and grading process for teachers. Assignments is an updated version of Google Course Kit and can be integrated into any Learning Management System (LMS). After they sign up for the beta, teachers can send student's individual copies of an assignment, comment on student work using commonly used phrases, and attach rubrics to projects so students understand the requirements. It also includes an originality-check feature, similar to Turnitin's plagiarism-stopping service. Originality Report checks student work against billions of web pages and millions of books to ensure they haven't nabbed some Nietzsche and passed it off as their own. Students can take advantage of this feature, too: If their teacher enables the feature, they can run a report three times, hopefully catching citation mistakes before they hit submit. "We've heard from instructors that they copy and paste passages into Google Search to check if student work is authentic, which can be repetitive, inefficient and biased," wrote Brian Hendricks, the production manager for G Suite for Education. "They also often spend a lot of time giving feedback about missed citations and improper paraphrasing. By integrating the power of Search into our assignment and grading tools, we can make this quicker and easier." Google will soon update the feature to include student-to-student comparisons. Schools will have access to a database of previous submissions to compare against new work. Assignments isn't Google's first foray into education; Google Classroom has been a teacher go-to for several years.

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