How do students complete an assignment?

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Overview
Student View Tab
Access Assignments
Submit Assignments
Publish Assignment (Optional)

Overview

The assignments tool allows your students to submit assignments electronically, via either entering text into the submission box, or attaching a file. The assignments tool provides a single location for assignment submittals and displays the scores for these assignments once they have been graded.

Session Timeout

WARNING: Blackboard sessions timeout after 30 minutes of inactivity. Web Browsers DO NOT register typing as activity. If you're typing an assignment, assessment, or discussion submission for longer than 30 minutes, the session may timeout when the submit button is pressed. This means that you may lose your work.

TIP: To prevent lost work, create your content in a word processor,
and then copy & paste the content into Blackboard.

Student View Tab
Preview your course as a Student

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The Student View tab allows you to see and interact with Blackboard exactly as your students do. Blackboard provides each course with a Demo Student Account for testing. This demo account is used when you take quizzes and submit assignments while in the Student View tab. In the student view, you are able to see exactly what your students see including the My Grades area. Use the Student View tab whenever you have a question about how your students will view and work in your Blackboard course.

To preview a Web Page as the students will see it, click on the Student View tab.

Read Assignment Instructions

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Click on Assignments from the course menu on the left Click on the title of the assignment
NOTE: If you do not see the Assignment you are looking for, it may be displayed on the next page. At the bottom of the window, you will find Next Page and Previous Page icons you can use to navigate through the list of Assignments.	Can't find what you're looking for? There are several possibilities: Perhaps it has not been released yet by the instructor? Is it on the next page? Permanently increase the default number of items displayed per screen by modifying your global Bb's Paging Preference.

Submit Assignments

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To complete the assignment, fill out the submission field and/or press the Add attachments

Click on My computer to locate your assignment file

Click Browse... (or Choose... on a Mac) locate your file, and OK to upload it

Tips

Include your name in the title of your submitted assignment (for example: assign1_smith.doc).

If you use the Save as Draft feature, REMEMBER to return and SUBMIT a final version of the assignment BEFORE the due date.

It is not required that you use the Submission/Comments text boxes and Add Attachment button. Use the submission method specified by your instructor or the method that best suites the assignment.

Blackboard times out after 30 minutes of inactivity. Find out more about avoiding problems with Session Timeouts by reading the recommendation below.

Session Timeout

TIP: To prevent lost work, create your content in a word processor,
and then copy & paste the content into Blackboard.

When you're ready to complete your assignment, click Submit

Check Submission

It's always a good idea to double check that your submission was uploaded correctly.

When you've successfully submitted an assignment, you will see a Confirmation screen similar to the one below:

Go to Assignments
Click on the Submitted tab
Click on the Assignment you just submitted

Check under Submission to see that you text and/or file attachment has been submitted correctly.
Click on the Attachment to make sure you can successfully save and/or open the file (this will help ensure that the person grading the assignment will be able to do the same).

Taking Back a Submission

Your instructor has the option of allowing you to take back submissions for further editing. [more...]

Publish Submissions (Optional)

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Instructors have the option of allowing their students to Publish their assignment results to the Published tab which is a public area where all the students in a course may see the assignment submission of their classmates. The Assignment Grade and the Instructor comments for the published assignment submission are not viewable by other students, but the submission itself is viewable. An assignment must be submitted first, before it can be published.

To publish your submission, go to the assignment in either the Submitted tab, or the Graded tab
Click on the ActionLinks icon next to the assignment
Select Publish Controls
Note: If you do not see this option, your instructor has not turned on this feature.

Press the Publish button

You should now see your published assignment submission listed under the Published tab

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