Yes! There are four time management tools Teachers have access to when creating TeacherMade assignments that allow you to schedule when assignments are available, set due dates and create time-limited assignments.

1. Open Time
2. Close Time
3. Due Date
4. Time Limit

They appear on the third step of creating an assignment:

Let's walk through them!!

Enable Open Time

Enabling an open time allows you to set a date and time that the assignment will open for your students. If your students try to access this work before open time, they will receive a warning message that lets them know exactly when it will open. 

This is great for deciding when students will have access to a test, planning assignments in advance, or even making sub plans.

Enable Close Time

Enabling a close time allows you to set the time that the assignment will become unavailable to your students. When that time passes, your students will no longer be able to open the assignment. If they working on it at the time, their work will be auto-saved and they see this message:

Use this feature to close a test at the end of a class period or close homework at the start of the school day! There's no need to wait for students to turn in their work when TeacherMade can do it for you!

Open and Close Time Together

These two features do not need to be used together. An assignment can have an open time and no close time or vice versa. It's up to you!

You will see the open time and the close time on the assignment detail page. Both settings can be edited after the assignment has been created.

It's important to note that these open and close times are only reflected in TeacherMade. These settings do not change any open and close times you may have set in your LMS. 

Enable a Due Date

The due date in TeacherMade is not enforced the way Close Time is. Students will not lose access to the work after the due date. Instead, when they do submit their work, it will be marked as late in the Assignment Review mode.

It helps to make your life easier by automatically marking work late while ensuring students carry the responsibility of submitting work on time. 

As with the Open and Close Times, this feature is only reflected in TeacherMade, not in your LMS. 

Enable a Time Limit

Enabling a time limit in TeacherMade lets you set a timer for a particular assignment. The timer will begin when a student begins an assignment and will continue to run even if a student leaves the page or saves the work for later.

The timer is displayed in the top right corner of a student's work. When a student has less than 1 minute, the timer turns red. At the end of the time limit, the work is automatically submitted and students are able to review their work. 

Reopening or resetting a student's submission will also restart the timer for that student's work.