Work on projects

There are a couple of different kinds of project assignments, including essays and reports. Because project assignments allow one attempt, be sure you are ready to submit your work and mark the lesson as complete. Projects are graded by your teacher.

How to open a project to start working on it

There are several ways to open a project that is accessible to work on:

• On your Home > Schoolwork page, look in the Projects list. Click the project.

• On the Calendar page on any day where the project's start date and due date time is shown. Click to open the project.

• On your Learn > Assignments page, click the project to open it.

• On your Learn > Courses assignment page. Look for the project and click it. Then, click the Work On This Assignment button.

When you open a project, you see a project page. Typically, there are instructions on the page that tell you what is expected for the project.

Complete work on projects

1. Read the instructions.
2. Click either the Questions button on the function toolbar or the Work on Questions button on the bottom of the project instructions.

Once you click the Questions button, your page may look like the example shown here.

3. There are two ways you can complete this project:

• You can type your essay in the text box (see item A above). Use the buttons on the toolbar (item B above) for help or to format your work (see Project formatting features.) Be sure to click the Save button often so you don’t lose any of your work.

Note: If you see a link to an existing file when you click the Questions button the first time, either your teacher or Monarch has already created a place for you to start your project.

• You can use another program, for example, Microsoft® Word, or Excel®, or PowerPoint®, or any word processor or text program should work to create your project. You then upload the file. See Upload files for projects.

4. If you want to add a note to the problem, for example, you may want to explain your answer or maybe you need help from your teacher, click the Notes button. See Share information about assignments with your Teacher using problem notes.
5. Now you have to decide if you want to complete the project or continue working on it.

Project formatting features

Projects have a formatting toolbar containing tools to assist you.

Button	Description
	Save the work you have done.
	Select the style of text you want to use for selected text.
	Select the format style you want to use for the paragraph.
	Remove the formatting for the selected text.
	Indent text in the direction the arrows indicate (left or right).
	Set a quotation of text from someone else and indent it on both the right and left without using quotation marks.
	Insert special characters.
	See an explanation about essays type questions.
	Make the selected text bold.
	Italicize the selected text.
	Underline selected text.
	Strikethrough (draw a line through) selected text.
	Align text, to the left margin, center, or right margin.
	Create a numbered or bulleted list.
	Open the project instructions in a separate window.

Upload files for projects

1. Create a file according to the project instructions.
2. Save that file on your computer.
3. Log in to Monarch and open the project assignment.
4. Click the Questions or Work on Questions button.
5. Click the Choose File or Browse button to locate the file you saved to your computer in Step 2.
6. Once the file shows in the File: box, click the Upload button.

Tip: If you uploaded the wrong file, click the Delete button to remove the file from Monarch. If you want to make changes before you send it to your teacher for grading, you can make the changes in the file on your computer and upload it again.