Аннотация:The phonetic disciplines have two academic hours per week and one year of studies, which changes the syllabus and a teaching process radically. The presented case study concerns the blended course of phonetics for the first-year students. The syllabus had 34 synchronous academic hours and 38 is for self-study work per semester. There were 19 graded and 41 ungraded assignments for the students during the semester (developed and posted on LMS Canvas). The paper aims at characterizing the dichotomy of graded/ungraded tasks from the teacher/student perspectives and at analyzing the results of ungraded tasks implementation. The experiment encompassed 264 students and 8 teachers. Statistics demonstrates that only about 62% of students did the tasks. The implementation of ungraded tasks, backed up by the methodological concepts, underwent 3 major changes with the pivotal reason being the students’ attitude towards them. The implementation shows the advantages of such methodological basis, however, proves great administration risks. The paper discusses some motivational issues connected to the experiment outcomes.