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title: Staged assignments
description: With Cadmus, you can release instructions to students in stages, creating an authentic assignment experience. This is a great way to contain the entire assignment experience within Cadmus, encouraging
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# Staged assignments
With Cadmus, you can release instructions to students in stages, creating an authentic assignment experience. This is a great way to contain the entire assignment experience within Cadmus, encouraging students to prepare notes and research before completing a structured task.
**TIP**: If you would like to set up a timed assessment (e.g. exam, test, quiz) with allocated reading time, please refer to this article on [Setting up exams](https://support.cadmus.io/teachers/setting-up-exams-canvas?hsLang=en).
Here are a few ideas for creating staged assignments:
- Give students an initial topic for research, followed by a focused essay topic or question.
- Provide students with a case study to analyse in Cadmus, before releasing questions to answer.
**To set up a staged assignment: **
1. [Create a Cadmus link](https://support.cadmus.io/teachers/setting-up-a-cadmus-assignment-link-in-the-lms?hsLang=en), and use the LMS functionality to set when you would like students to access the task
2. [Select Assignment](https://support.cadmus.io/setting-requirements-canvas?hsLang=en) as your Assessment type
3. Set up your Cadmus assignment as you’d like it to be in the *first stage* of your assignment
4. [Release these instructions](https://support.cadmus.io/teachers/releasing-assessment?hsLang=en) immediately to students
5. [Update the instructions](https://support.cadmus.io/teachers/updating-assessment?hsLang=en) to what you would like students to see in the *second stage* of the assignment
6. Use a scheduled release to set the date and time at which you would like the *second stage* of instructions to become available
You'll then be able to review the two stages of released instructions from the *Instructions* tab.
**NOTE**: If you have set a scheduled release for your first stage of instructions, you will need to wait until these instructions become visible to students before releasing or scheduling the next instructions update — that is, you can only set one scheduled instructions release at a time.
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