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Submitting Assignments
Assignments are the heart of the course. They are your opportunity to interact with your instructor, to demonstrate what you have learned, and to hone new skills with the help of your instructor. It is important to develop a time-line for submitting assignments so that you do not find yourself in a time crunch.
Before you submit a completed assignment, we recommend that you make and keep a copy of the assignment. Occasionally, assignments are lost or damaged before they reach us. Your best protection against delays and extra work is to take this safeguard.
Instructor-graded assignments are returned to you with the instructor’s remarks and grades. Students may receive “Incomplete” or “Redo” marks on their assignments with additional remarks from the instructors. You will need to address the issue raised by the instructor in order to complete this assignment.
Because learning requires time for assimilation and because you benefit from instructor feedback, it is recommended that you submit no more than three instructor-graded assignments in a seven-day period.
If more than three instructor graded assignments are submitted, students will experience a delay in feedback from the instructor.
Students should keep a copy of all assignments submitted by mail. The UT K-16 Education Center is not responsible for assignments lost in the mail.
Computer Graded Assignments
You may submit an unlimited number of objective-question, computer-graded assignments at any time and take advantage of the immediate feedback available through the Web.
Online Assignments
For most lessons in Online courses, your instructor will receive your completed assignments through the Online interface, eliminating the mail transit time of traditional distance education courses and facilitating faster, more immediate responses.
Some assignments (e.g. photos, voice recordings, drawings, and other work) cannot be easily sent via the Internet. For this reason, some assignments in Online courses must be submitted by U.S. Mail.
Mailed Assignments
To mail your assignments, address your assignments to:
The University of Texas at Austin
K-16 Education Center
P.O. Box 7700
Austin, TX 78713-7700
In-Person Submission
Turning in assignments at our office can decrease the time it takes to complete your course, as there is no initial mailing delay. You can bring assignments to our office from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday (except The University of Texas at Austin holidays). Assignments received after noon will be processed the next business day.
Overnight Delivery Services
You can lessen mail time by using overnight delivery services. In order to give all students equal treatment, however, we observe the following policies in relation to overnight delivery service:
Assignments and exams that come into our office by overnight delivery service are treated like materials received by mail that day.
We do not use express mail to send assignments or exams to instructors for grading.
We will send course materials by overnight delivery service only when payment is made in advance with a credit card. No special handling is given to such materials other than the arrangements for overnight delivery.
Express Mail Address
Note that express mail services (FedEx, AirBorne, etc.) are not able to deliver to our post office box. Send express mail to:
The University of Texas at Austin
K-16 Education Center
2901 North IH-35, Room 1.408
Austin, TX 78722
Fax Submission
If you live outside the U.S., or if you have easy access to a fax machine, you may wish to speed delivery of your assignments by faxing them to us. A faxed assignments fee is charged for sending assignments via fax.
