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The Assignment tool is used by instructors who would like students to
submit a file for a graded assignment. Students may upload Microsoft
Word,
PowerPoint, Excel, or any other file type that the
instructor can work with. Blackboard provides an easy method for grading
each submission and providing feedback to the student.
Enter Grades in Bulk
- It may be more convenient to download all the students' submissions
for an assignment to your hard drive so that you can work on them
independent of Blackboard. This process involves zipping up and
downloading all the student's submissions for a particular assignment.
See
Download Submissions for Offline Review.
- If you already have all of the grades for an assignment because you
are grading offline, it may be more convenient to enter these grades
through the Grade Book tool. See Grade
Assignments in Bulk.
Grade assignments you received outside of Blackboard
- You will need to use the Grade Book tool to give a grade to a
student who submitted their assignment to you via e-mail or some
alternative means. See the Grade Book tutorial on
Entering Grades.
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- Select the All tab
- The status of all your students is available in
this view
- Not Started indicates the student has NOT
started the assignment.
- In Progress indicates that the student has
started, but has not submitted assignment.
- Graded indicates that the assignment has
already been graded.
- Sort your list of students by First Name by clicking
on the Assigned to header
NOTE: If you wish to sort
by Last Name, select the Build tab > Manage
Course > Settings > International. Change the
Name format to Last, Other First Prefix (Suffix).
Return to the Assignment Dropbox in the Teach
tab and click on the Assigned to header to sort by
Last Name.
- Click on the
ActionLinks
icon next to the assignment you wish to grade
- Select View Submissions
- Enter your grading comments and add any necessary
attachments
- Are you using Grading Forms?
- Select the Return graded submission... radio button,
and fill in the appropriate grade
- REMINDER: You must
Release
the column in the Grade Book for students to view their
grades
- Click Save
NOTE:
You will need to use the Grade Book tool to give a grade to a
student who submitted their assignment to you via e-mail or some
alternative means. See
Modify/Override Grade.
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- It may be more convenient to download all the students' submissions
for an assignment to your hard drive so that you can work on them
independent of Blackboard. This process involves zipping up and
downloading all the student's submissions for a particular assignment.
See
Download Submissions for Offline Review.
- If you already have all of the grades for an assignment because you
are grading offline, it may be more convenient to enter these grades
through the Grade Book tool. See Grade
Assignments in Bulk.
- Use the Grade Book tool to give a grade to a student who submitted
their assignment to you via e-mail or some alternative means, and not
through Blackboard. See
Modify/Overide Grades.
It can be more convenient to download all the students'
submissions for an assignment to your hard drive so that you can
work on them independent of Blackboard. The steps below outline the
process of zipping up and downloading all the student's submissions
for a particular assignment.
- Under the Teach Tab, go to Assignment Dropbox
(1)
- Make sure you're on the Submitted tab
- Change the View by (2)
drop down menu to the Assignment you want to
download and press the
Go
button
- Select the Check Box (3)
at the top of the list of submissions. This will select all the
submissions displayed on that page at once.
- WARNING: Verify that all
of the submissions are displayed on the page. If they are not,
change your paging preference to
increase the number of items displayed on the page.
TIP: Permanently increase the
default number of items (e.g. submissions) displayed per screen by modifying your
global
Bb's
Paging Preference.
- Press the Create Printable View
(4)
button. This will compile all the assignment submissions into a
single screen from which to download.
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- Under the Build tab, go to the File
Manager
- Select My Files at the top of the screen
- Click on the
ActionLinks
icon next to the Assignment Submissions Zip file that
was generated
- Select the Download option from the drop
down menu
- Navigate to the location you would like to save the
assignments to
- Press Save
- When the download is complete, press the Open
button
- You will be able to view a folder containing the assignments
of each student
- Press the Extract all Files option under
Folder Tasks
- Extract it to the same location the zip file is stored
- Once extracted, you can read and modify the students'
submissions from your hard drive
- When you're ready to enter grades for each student, follow
the next steps of this tutorial
The following tutorial shows how to enter the grades in bulk through the
Grade Book tool. This method also allows you to give a grade to a student
who submitted their assignment to you via email or some alternative means,
and not through Blackboard.
- Under the Teach Tab, click on Grade Book.
- Click on the
ActionLinks
icon of the column, and select Edit Values
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NOTE: If you do not see all
of the students
you are looking for, they may be displayed on the next page. At
the bottom of the window, you will find Next Page
and Previous Page
icons which you can use to navigate through the list of students.
Permanently increase the number of
students displayed per page with the Grade Book tool's Page Preference
icon—also located at the bottom of the window. (The Grade Book tool
uses a separate paging preference setting and does not use
the global
Bb's Paging Preference setting defined in Bb's
My Settings.)
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- Enter your student's grades. Once you have finished, press
Save
Reminder: In order for
students to see their grades, you must first
Release
the column in the Grade Book
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