Create an assignment

What it is

An assignment is a small, reusable questionnaire you build once on a form - a name, an optional description, and a set of questions - and send to any candidate on that form. Think of it as a take-home exercise: a coding challenge, a writing sample, a set of follow-up questions. Building one is free on every plan; only sending it can be rate-limited (see Send and review assignments).

Create one

Open Manage assignment forms from a form's Assignments tab or the Send assignment dialog. Add form creates a new, empty assignment named "New assignment" until you rename it, and you can hold several assignments per form (for example, one per role level).

• Name - the only label an assignment has; it's what candidates see as the page title, and what recruiters see everywhere else (the manage list, the send dropdown, the Assignments tab).
• Description - optional context shown above the questions, formatted with the same rich-text editor used elsewhere in Binary.
• Questions - add fields from short answer, long answer, number, date, phone, link, file upload, single select, multi select, and dropdown. Video recording isn't offered as a question type for assignments.

Changes save automatically as you type - there's no separate Save button.

Editing and deleting

Editing an assignment changes the shared, form-scoped questionnaire - every candidate who already has a link to it sees your update, since there's no separate per-candidate copy. Deleting an assignment is a soft delete: it drops out of the list of assignments you can send, but candidates who already received it keep their answers and their link keeps working, so a past submission is never orphaned.

Workspace defaults

Under Settings → Assignments, workspace Admins can manage a set of default assignments that every new form in the workspace starts with a copy of (alongside default stages, reply templates, and feedback templates - see Workspace settings). Editing a workspace default only affects forms created afterward; it doesn't reach back into forms that already inherited a copy.

Notes & limits

• Assignments aren't gated by plan - creating, editing, and sending are available to everyone with access to the form.
• There's no due date or expiration on an assignment - a candidate's link stays open until they submit.
• Anyone with access to the form can create, edit, and delete its assignments.