Assignments Overview
  • 21 Apr 2025
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Article summary

When an annotator logs into the Dataloop platform, their initial screen is the assignment page, where all their assignments in the project are listed.
Annotators can then double-click an assignment to begin work, as this will open the relevant annotation studio with the next item to work on.


List of assignments

The Assignments tab displays a table listing all assignments, with detailed information in each column. Clicking on an assignment's name directs you to its corresponding item's page. When filtered by username, the selection persists even after reloading or refreshing the platform.

  • Users: This displays the avatar of the assignment's users.
  • Assignments: This displays the name of the assignments. Click to open:
    • The Assignment Browser, if the bulk classification mode is enabled in the recipe.
      • Otherwise, use the Assignment actions -> Open Assignment Browser option. Use the Copy Assignment ID icon next to the assignment name to copy the Assignment ID.
    • The annotation studio, if the bulk classification mode is NOT enabled in the recipe.
  • Type: This displays the task type, labeling or QA tasks.
  • Status: This displays the status of the assignments.
  • Priority: This displays the assignments' with a High, Medium, or Low priority.
  • Progress: This displays the item's completion status.
  • Open Issues: This displays the number of items with annotations that have open issues.
  • For Review: This displays the number of items with annotations that have issues corrected for review.

You can customize the visibility of the column fields in the table view by clicking on Show/Hide Columns.


Assignment details

When you select an assignment, the right-side panel of your Assignment tab displays comprehensive information regarding the selected assignment:

General details

The General Details section of the assignment provides you the following general information:

  • Browser icon: This allows you to open and view the assignment browser page.
  • Analytics icon | This takes you to open and view the Analytics page of the assignment.
  • Task: This displays the assignment name. You can click on it to navigate to the assignment browser page.
  • User: This displays the avatar of the assignment's users.
  • Priority: This displays the assignments with a High, Medium, or Low priority.
  • Channel: This displays the channel type used to create the tasks, Pipeline or Workflow.
  • Created At: This displays the assignment creation date, for example, Sep, 15 2023.
  • Updated At: This displays the assignment update date, for example, Sep, 15 2023.
  • Due Date: This displays the due date of the assignment.
  • Pipeline: The displays the name and the link of the pipeline to which it belongs to.
  • Quality: The name and link of the qualification task.
  • Description: The description provided for the selected assignment's task. To add a description, click on the Edit icon. You can also use SDK to add or edit description.

Use the Copy Assignment ID icon next to the assignment name to copy the Assignment ID.

Status

The Status section of the assignment provides you the following information:

Progress: This displays the item's completion status.
Open Issues: This displays the number of items with annotations that have open issues.
For Review: This displays the number of items with annotations that have issues corrected for review.

Metadata (read only)

This section of the assignment provides you the metadata information of the selected assignment. You have the option to copy the metadata, but editing it is not possible.

For example,

{
  "system": {
    "datasetId": "64a671e0d854daf23d6ed2b9",
    "taskId": "65091cc7d93bfc635d4f1878",
    "active": true
  },
  "datasetId": "64a671e0d854daf23d6ed2b9"
}

Open Assignments in the browser

  1. Enable Bulk classification option in the Recipe.
  2. In the Labeling -> Assignments tab, click on the assignment name. The assignment will be displayed in the browser.

Assignment progress

Task managers track and review assignment progress.

  1. From the Labeling->Assignments menu, Project Assignments lists all the assignments in the project with their progress and allows filtering by specific assignees to review and control their workload.
  2. From the tasks page, double-click a task to view the task assignment.
  3. Track your task process in one of these two ways:
    1. View the discarded items in the dataset browser.
    2. Open the assignment analytics page (from task assignments).
  4. Review discarded and completed items by browsing a task and filtering accordingly.

Reassigning tasks

When a task is active, changes in the workforce can occur. Use this option to reassign an assignment from one annotator to another.

Inactive users

Inactive users are grayed out and are not available for redistribution, but are available for reassignment. You can view an inactive message next to the user who is no longer in the project.


Distribution task reassignments

Changes in team structure when using distribution-based tasks use the reassignment and redistribution actions. For example, if an assignee leaves the project and work needs to be reassigned to someone else.