After logging in as a teacher, and turning on editing, you can add an assignment from the Add an activity... menu.
You can select from four types of assignments. Each of them is explained here:
Use this assignment type when you want the student to submit a single file online. The following screenshot shows what the student sees before he or she submits the file:
And this is what the student sees after submitting (uploading) the file; the submission is graded by the teacher:
Just as with the Upload a Single File assignment, this type of assignment allows each student to upload a file in any format. However, the student can upload multiple versions, or drafts of the file. Until the student uploads the final version of the file, the submission is marked as a draft.
The teacher determines how many versions can be uploaded when he or she creates the assignment. The student can either upload that many versions, or indicate...