- Maintain an electronic record of student submissions that can be accessed at any time, rather than collecting, maintaining, and returning actual papers.
- Make it easy to track any late assignments by viewing the date/time stamp for any submission.
- Have columns automatically generated within your Blackboard Grade Center whenever you create an assignment (or anything else that has points associated with it).
- Automatically generate calendar items/reminders within Blackboard, allowing students to track upcoming deadlines and due dates.
- Check student assignments for plagiarism using the Safe Assign option available when creating an assignment.
- Use Inline Grading features to comment directly on student assignments, rather than having to download, comment, and re-upload submissions (continue to follow this month's blog to learn more about Inline Grading).
- Use Blackboard Rubrics within the Grade Center to score and provide feedback on student submissions (continue to follow this month's blog to learn more about Rubrics).
- Maintain a record of student assignment submissions as part of the course archive once the course has ended.
Assignments can be created within any content area of a Blackboard course by selecting the Assignments option under the Assessments menu; learn more at the official Blackboard Help page Creating Assignments. The only requirements are the assignment name and points possible, but there are several other options available as part of the assignment-creation process.
Assignment Files - Use this area to upload any files associated with the assignment, similar to the way you would upload an attachment within an email. Remember . . . unless you need students to make changes to a file (such as a Word or PowerPoint file), always convert and upload files to Blackboard as PDFs.
Due Dates - A due date will display to students when they open an assignment. It will also add the assignment to the Blackboard calendar view, where students can click on the calendar item to go directly to that assignment. When you grade a student assignment, you will be notified if the assignment was submitted after the due date/time.
Grading - Under the Submission Details option, we recommend allowing students two attempts for each assignment, rather than keeping the single attempt default setting. Let students know that you will grade their last attempt and will ignore the first one if they submit two; this avoids the need to clear assignments and then communicate with students about resubmitting. Learn more about Multiple Assignment Attempts.
Within the same area, instructors can check any of the boxes in the Plagiarism Tools area. Checking a paper using SafeAssign will check a student's paper against several databases and can be used as a great teaching tool as well. Learn more about Using SafeAssign in Assignments, and check out the Quick Hit video below:
Availability - You can set display options for the assignment; however, if you set these at the folder level, there is no need to submit them for each item/assignment within the folder as well.
Continue to follow our blog posts this month to learn more about using Inline Grading and Rubrics for assignment submissions.
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