I am imaging a simple toggle option for Assignments.

The benefit would be to make assignments more clear.

Default: New assignment post is empty and course participant needs to flip back to the assignment to read questions.

Copy Text: With this option the assignment text (the questions) is copies into the assignment post so the course participant can just add their answers.

A variation of this would be to have two text sections, one that is just informational for participants, and one that gets copied.

This would help a lot.