PressPrimer

<p><strong>PressPrimer Assignment</strong> is a professional assignment submission and grading plugin that gives WordPress educators everything they need to collect student work, provide meaningful feedback, and track grades, all without juggling email attachments, shared drives, or clunky LMS add-ons.</p>
<p>Students get a clean, focused submission experience. Teachers get a centralized grading dashboard. And you keep full control of your data on your own WordPress site.</p>
<p><strong>This is a genuinely free plugin.</strong> Unlimited assignments, unlimited submissions, full grading tools, LMS integration, and email notifications are all included at no cost. We earn upgrades by building specialized features worth paying for, not by crippling what you get for free.</p>
<h4>Why PressPrimer Assignment?</h4>
<p>Built-in assignment tools in WordPress LMS plugins are often afterthoughts, limited to basic file uploads with no real grading workflow, limited feedback options, and dated interfaces. Dedicated assignment platforms charge monthly fees with per-student pricing that gets expensive fast.</p>
<p>PressPrimer Assignment delivers a focused, polished assignment workflow with the features educators actually need:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Flexible Submission Types</strong> – Accept file uploads, rich text submissions, or let students choose. Support for PDF, DOCX, TXT, RTF, ODT, and image files out of the box.</li>
<li><strong>Grade Without Leaving WordPress</strong> – A dedicated grading queue with a side-by-side interface: the student’s document renders on the left while you score and write feedback on the right. Built-in viewers for PDF, Word documents, images, and text files mean you never have to download, open, and track files on your desktop.</li>
<li><strong>Native LMS Integration</strong> – Works with LearnDash and Tutor LMS. Assignments appear in lessons, passing grades trigger lesson completion, and instructor roles are mapped automatically.</li>
<li><strong>Secure File Handling</strong> – Six-layer file validation and permission-based file serving. Student files are never directly accessible via URL.</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Email Notifications</strong> – Automatic emails for submission confirmation, grade release, and new submission alerts. Fully customizable templates with token placeholders.</li>
<li><strong>Three Professional Themes</strong> – Default, Modern, and Minimal themes that match the PressPrimer Quiz visual style.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features Included Free</h4>
<p>PressPrimer Assignment includes everything you need to manage assignments at any scale:</p>
<p><strong>Assignment Creation</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited assignments with title, description, instructions, and grading guidelines</li>
<li>Configurable maximum points and passing score</li>
<li>Three submission types: file upload, text/rich text, or student’s choice</li>
<li>Configurable file types, file size limits (up to 100 MB), and multiple files per submission</li>
<li>Assignment categories for organization</li>
<li>Draft, Published, and Archived status workflow</li>
<li>Resubmission support with configurable attempt limits</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Student Submission Experience</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Drag-and-drop file upload with progress indicators</li>
<li>TinyMCE rich text editor with live word count and auto-save drafts</li>
<li>Submission preview with confirmation before final submit</li>
<li>Student notes field for context or questions</li>
<li>View submission status, grade, and instructor feedback</li>
<li>Previous submission history with feedback for each attempt</li>
<li>[pressprimer_assignment_my_submissions] shortcode for a personal submissions dashboard</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Grading & Feedback</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Centralized grading queue with filter and sort</li>
<li>Side-by-side grading interface: document viewer on the left, grading panel on the right</li>
<li>Built-in viewers render PDF, DOCX, images, and text files directly in WordPress; no downloading required</li>
<li>Score input with automatic pass/fail calculation</li>
<li>Rich text feedback field</li>
<li>Grading guidelines reference panel pulled from the assignment</li>
<li>Status workflow: Submitted, Grading, Graded, Returned</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Email Notifications</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Submission confirmation, grade notification, and new submission alert emails</li>
<li>Customizable subject and body templates per email type</li>
<li>Token placeholders: student name, assignment title, score, feedback URL, and more</li>
<li>Custom from name, from email, and logo</li>
<li>Test email feature in settings</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Admin Dashboard & Reports</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Dashboard with submission statistics, activity chart, and recent submissions</li>
<li>Reports page with filterable submission data</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Security & Accessibility</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Six-layer file upload validation (extension whitelist, MIME verification, double-extension blocking, dangerous file rejection)</li>
<li>Files stored outside webroot with permission-based serving through PHP</li>
<li>Capability-based access control (teachers see only their own assignments)</li>
<li>WordPress Privacy API integration (Tools > Export/Erase Personal Data)</li>
<li>Clean uninstall with optional complete data and file removal</li>
<li>Three professional themes with responsive design, RTL support, and print styles</li>
<li>Keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and reduced motion preferences</li>
</ul>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>LearnDash course creators</strong> who need a better assignment experience than the built-in tool</li>
<li><strong>Tutor LMS instructors</strong> who want document submission and grading in their courses</li>
<li><strong>University departments</strong> collecting essays, lab reports, or research papers</li>
<li><strong>Corporate trainers</strong> gathering certification documents and project deliverables</li>
<li><strong>Standalone WordPress educators</strong> who need assignments without a full LMS</li>
<li><strong>Online course entrepreneurs</strong> selling courses with graded assignments</li>
</ul>
<h4>Built-in Integrations</h4>
<p>PressPrimer Assignment detects and integrates with popular WordPress LMS plugins automatically.</p>
<p><strong>LearnDash:</strong> Attach assignments to lessons or topics via the editor sidebar. Passing an assignment can automatically mark the lesson or topic complete. LearnDash Group Leaders are granted teacher-level permissions to create assignments and grade their students’ submissions. The “Mark Complete” button is hidden until a required assignment is passed.</p>
<p><strong>Tutor LMS:</strong> Attach assignments to lessons via the course builder. Passing an assignment can auto-complete the lesson and trigger course completion when all lessons are done. Tutor LMS Instructors are granted teacher-level permissions. If both PressPrimer Quiz and PressPrimer Assignment are attached to a lesson, both must be passed before the lesson completes.</p>
<p><strong>Uncanny Automator:</strong> Four triggers available—user submits an assignment, user is graded, user passes, user fails. Each trigger includes a full set of tokens (assignment title, score, feedback, student info, grader info, and more) for use in automated workflows.</p>
<p>All integrations are included in the free version.</p>
<h4>Built for Developers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Action hooks for assignment creation, submission, grading, and email events</li>
<li>Filter hooks for submission permissions, file access, email templates, and role mapping</li>
<li>Full REST API for assignments, submissions, files, categories, and statistics</li>
<li>Custom database tables with automatic schema migration</li>
<li>Extensible settings panel with tab registration hooks</li>
</ul>
<h4>Documentation & Support</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://pressprimer.com/knowledge-base/pressprimer-assignment/" rel="nofollow ugc">Knowledge Base</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Source Code & Development</h4>
<p>The full uncompressed source code for all JavaScript and CSS files is available in our public GitHub repository:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/PressPrimer/pressprimer-assignment" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repository</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The <code>/src</code> directory contains all unminified source files. The plugin uses webpack for building production assets. To rebuild from source:</p>
<ol>
<li>Clone the repository</li>
<li>Run <code>npm install</code> to install dependencies</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code> to compile assets</li>
</ol>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>PressPrimer Assignment stores student submission data (files, text, grades, and feedback) in your WordPress database under your full control. No data is transmitted to external servers. All submitted files are stored in a protected directory under <code>wp-content/uploads/ppa-submissions/</code> and served via PHP with permission checks.</p>
<p>The plugin integrates with the WordPress Privacy API:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Tools > Export Personal Data</strong> — includes all submissions, grades, feedback, and uploaded file metadata for the requested user.</li>
<li><strong>Tools > Erase Personal Data</strong> — permanently deletes all submissions, grades, and uploaded files for the requested user.</li>
</ul>
<p>Administrators can permanently delete all plugin data (database tables, uploaded files, options, and user meta) via Settings > Advanced > “Remove all data on uninstall” before uninstalling the plugin.</p>


PressPrimer Assignment

Collect, review, and grade student assignments in WordPress. File uploads, text submissions, inline feedback, and LMS integration. Free forever.

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<p>Oasis Workflow is a powerful feature rich plugin designed to automate any editorial workflow process using a simple, intuitive drag and drop interface.</p>
<h4>Typical users/audience for Oasis Workflow</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress sites with multiple authors that are looking to manage their content review and publication process more efficiently.</li>
<li>Industries like healthcare, law firms, financial firms, universities, CPA firms, non-profits, news outlets and blogs, that publish articles regularly and need a formal review process.</li>
<li>Industries with strict auditing requirements where they need to track who made the change, when was the change made and what was changed.</li>
</ul>
<h4>The plugin provides three simple process/task templates:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Assignment – represents task related to content generation.</li>
<li>Review – represents task related to content review.</li>
<li>Publish – represents the actual “publish” or “review and publish” task.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Visual Work flow Designer</strong><br />
 – Configure your workflow using our easy drag and drop designer interface. See screen shots for more detail.</p>
<p><strong>Role-Based routing definitions allow you to assign tasks dynamically</strong><br />
 – By using role-based routing, you can ensure that your process moves forward as quickly as possible without sacrificing accountability.</p>
<p><strong>Inbox</strong><br />
 – Users can view their current assignments and sign off their tasks once it’s completed.</p>
<p><strong>Custom Statuses</strong><br />
 – Define custom statuses for your editorial workflow. With custom statuses you can define your own post statuses and assign it to the success or failure path of the workflow.</p>
<p><strong>Process history lets users retrace their steps</strong><br />
 – For auditing purposes a record is created every time an article is routed through a workflow process. The process history also captures the comments added by the user during task sign off.</p>
<p><strong>Reassign – How to pass the buck?</strong><br />
 – What if you have been assigned a workflow task, but you feel you are not the appropriate person to complete it? No worry, you can use the re-assign feature to pass the task to another person.</p>
<p><strong>Due Date and Email reminders</strong> help you to publish your articles on time.</p>
<p><strong>Out of the box workflow</strong><br />
– To get you started, the plugin comes with two out of the box workflow – Single Level Review Workflow, and Multi Level Review Workflow. You can modify the workflow to suit your needs.</p>
<p><strong>If you are looking for additional functionality, check out our “Pro” version – Oasis Workflow Pro: https://www.oasisworkflow.com/pricing-purchase</strong><br />
<strong>It comes with additional features like,</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.oasisworkflow.com/documentation/working-with-workflows/revise-published-content" rel="nofollow ugc">Revise published content and add workflow support to revised content</a> – Use workflow to edit your published content while keeping the published article online.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oasisworkflow.com/documentation/working-with-workflows/auto-submit-to-workflow" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto Submit</a> – Allows you to automatically submit to workflow(s) with certain conditions.</li>
<li>And add-ons, like “Editorial Contextual Comments”, “Editorial Checklist”, “Teams”, “Front End shortcodes”, “Groups”</li>
<li>And much more.. </li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to try out the “Pro” features, send us a message at <a href="https://www.oasisworkflow.com/request-a-demo-site" rel="nofollow ugc">Request a Demo Site</a> and we will setup a demo site for you to try out the “Pro” features. As a bonus, we will also add our add-ons to the demo site.<br />
More details for each feature, screenshots and documentation can be found on <a href="https://www.oasisworkflow.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">our website</a>.</p>
<h4>Supported languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Ukrainian</li>
<li>Russian</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translators</h4>
<ul>
<li>French (fr_FR) – <a href="http://www.batrieg.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Baptiste Rieg</a></li>
<li>Italian (it_IT) – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/molokom" rel="nofollow ugc">Martino Stenta</a></li>
<li>Swedish (sv_SE) – Norbert Kustra</li>
<li>Ukrainian (uk) – Andy Prokopchuk</li>
</ul>
<p>If you need help setting up the roles, we recommend <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/capability-manager-enhanced/" title="Capability Manager Enhanced plugin" rel="ugc">Capability Manager Enhanced plugin</a> OR <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/" title="User Role Editor plugin" rel="ugc">User Role Editor plugin</a>.<br />
Oasis Workflow adds a few custom capabilities to manage your workflows. Check out <a href="https://www.oasisworkflow.com/documentation/working-with-workflows/oasis-workflow-custom-capabilities-explained" rel="nofollow ugc">Oasis Workflow Custom Capabilities</a></p>
<h4>Videos to help you get started with Oasis Workflow</h4>
<p>Creating and Editing a workflow</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JbJJQMMnf5U?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p>How it works? See the workflow in action.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_R2uVWQicsM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p>Modify a workflow which has posts/pages currently in progress</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mJ2hPsSBGcE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p>How to manage published content via workflow – revise published content (applicable to “Pro” version only)</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J4qJG7-F1qQ?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>


Oasis Workflow

Automate your WordPress Editorial Workflow with Oasis Workflow. Simple, intuitive drag and drop workflow builder to streamline your editorial process.

PressPrimer Assignment vs Oasis Workflow