Add Assignment

Introduction

The Add Assignment feature provides an excellent way to collect student assignments (electronic documents such as MS Word files) and give students one-to-one feedback via Blackboard.

The Add Assignment feature is more effective:

• when a submitted assignment consists of one document, (e.g. a research paper or essay),
• the assignment will be submitted one time,
• and will be assigned a grade.

Overview

When an Assignment is created in a Content area, a column in the Blackboard Gradebook will automatically be created for that assignment.

When a student submits his or her paper via an Assignment link, an exclamation point (!) will show up in the assignment column of the Gradebook.

Faculty may then retrieve the assignment directly from the Gradebook by clicking this exclamation point (!). After examining the students work, they can then assign a grade and type feedback for the student to view.

Students can view their graded assignment and read feedback when checking their grades for the class.

Students check grades and receive feedback by first clicking on the My SDSU tab. Below the My SDSU tab is a tools section that contains the link, “View Grades.” After clicking this link, students see a list of their classes. After selecting the appropriate class, student then see their scores. Scores for assignments are underlined. Students should click this underlined score to view instructor feedback.

How to create an Assignment:

From the Control Panel:

1.      Go to a Content Area (e.g. Course Materials, Course Documents, Assignments).

2.      Choose Assignment from the pull-down list next to the on the upper right side of the see neighboring figure:

3.      Click the Go button.

4.      Enter the name of the assignment in the Name field.

5.      Enter the Points Possible.

6.      Type any necessary information into the blank Instructions text area, then type in (or cut and paste) the actual assignment.  Alternatively, you may attach an assignment document (see Attach a file below.)

7.      Choose other Assignment Options as desired. NOTE: You must uncheck the Display Until button or set a date after the Display After button.

8.      Add Assignment Attachments for the students to download as desired. To Attach a file click on the Choose File button to browse the contents of your computer and select the desired file. The name of the document will appear beside Currently Attached Files. In the Name of Link to File box type instructions for students to download. “Click to download” is the most commonly used and it notifies students to look in the download area on their computer for the document.

9.     Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Submit button.

10.    On the following page click the OK button on the bottom right.

How to Access Submitted Papers:

1.      Go to a Grade Center via the Control Panel.

2.      Find the Column that corresponds to your Assignment Name (under this column, an exclamation point will be seen for each student who submitted this assignment):

3.      Click the Drop-Down menu just next to the exclamation mark and choose Grade Details.

4.      Under Attempts (Actions), click View Attempt. WARNING - Do not click Clear Attempt, this will delete the student paper.