Blackboard Assignments

Once the students’ submissions have been downloaded, the feedback and grades will also need downloading and archiving.

• From the Control Panel
• Select Grade Centre
• Select Full Grade Centre
• Select the drop-down arrow next to Reports
• Select View Mark History

The Mark History window will open displaying the Assignment name(s), user names, the grades or if an attempt was cleared and the feedback in the comments column:

Note: This will not show any extra files the tutor may have uploaded as an attachment providing additional feedback to a student. It is the responsibility of the tutor to download and save any such documents they may have attached to a student’s feedback.

From the Mark History window select Download

From the Options window that displays, for ease select:

• Delimited Type = Comma
• Include comments = Yes
• Select Submit

The following window will appear:

Select Download and then select OK to return to the Mark History window.

Once the file is downloaded it can be opened as an Excel spreadsheet. Check that all entries have downloaded correctly and then save this to the required location.

Blackboard Assignments

From within the Blackboard course site ensure EDIT mode is on:

• From the Control Panel
• Select Grade Centre
• Select Full Grade Centre
• Select the drop-down arrow next to the Assignment Title
• Select Assignment File Download

The Download Assignment window will open:

• Select the students whose assignments you want to download (you can select all students by checking the box next to Name).
• Select if you want to download only each students’ Last attempt or All attempts
• Click Submit.

All of the files submitted for that assignment will be packaged in a .zip file and the following message will appear:

• Right-click on the Download assignments nowlink
• Select Save link as…

Save the file to the required location.

Open the downloaded .zip file to ensure the contents contain all the submitted scripts.

Blackboard Assignments

If a Blackboard Assignment is deleted you will no longer be able to see either students’ work submitted, any e-feedback you’ve written or grades entered. It is therefore important to undertake the manual archiving of student work to comply with the University Document Retention schedule.

You may also want to download work or other information because:

• work is only submitted electronically and you are required to retain copies for audit
• you want to show a selection of work and/or feedback to external examiners

Please ensure that you

• advise students before you delete a Blackboard Assignment, or recycle the list of users in your Blackboard site, and advise them to download their full scripts and/or e-feedback.
• are aware of the programme’s procedure and location for archiving.

Contact your Digital Academic Developer for further guidance on how to share work with external examiners.

Blackboard Assignment

There are a number of ways students can access their marks and feedback, but the easiest way is for them to return to where they submitted their work.

Navigating to the content area that contains the Blackboard Assignment and clicking on the Assignment name will open the Review Submission History window:

The Mark and any Feedback, including the rubric will be displayed to the student in the right side panel.

Blackboard Assignment

Once all the Assignments have been marked and you are ready to release all the marks and feedback to your learners, return to the Grade Centre of that Blackboard module.

Select the drop-down arrow next to the Assignment Title and select Hide from Students (on/off) to make this available to students.

The will be removed and will indicate that the feedback and marks can now be viewed by students.

Blackboard Assignment

If a rubric has been attached to the assignment, click on the rubric name to expand.

Click on the desired criterion for each section. The range of points available for that criteria can then be selected from a drop-down selection within the defined points range.

Points will be automatically totalled as the Raw Total, however you can still amend/overwrite using Change the number of points out of xx.x to:

The rubric can also be opened in its own window to give more space to mark and view. Click on the expand rubric icon:

Feedback on the rubric scores can be left at the bottom. Remember to click Save Rubric once you have completed marking using the rubric to ensure that your interactions are not lost.

Blackboard Assignments

Within the Mark Assignment window, ensure you select the correct Attempt (if multiple attempts have been permitted) from the drop-down list.

Then enter the Mark /100. Click on Submit to mark the current assignment and move to the next student submission.

Selecting Save Draft after entering a Mark prevents the score from appearing in the Grade Centre or the students My Grades area, but the score is not saved.

Blackboard Assignment

Within the Mark Assignment window select the small arrow head within the Attempt section to expand the window:

Enter Feedback in the Feedback to Learner section.

Select Add Notes to expand the Marking Notes – these are Private and only visible to the tutor or other Instructors of the course board.

Click Save Draft to return an assignment attempt without a grade and with comments only.

The assignment remains ungraded and an exclamation mark remains in the My Grades and in the Grade Centre.

Students can access the comments through their Assignment Submission point and can resubmit by accessing the assignment, if resubmissions have been made possible.

Blackboard Assignment

From the Grade Centre find the column for the Assignment and select the student row and then select the drop-down arrow to display the menu.

Select to View Mark Details:

To remove a student’s submission entirely, select Clear Attempt.

Warning: This will remove the student’s document from Blackboard, and you will no longer be able to access it.  This should be used in situations where the student submitted the wrong document.

An alternative option is to simply allow the student to submit again.  To do this, select the Allow Additional Attempt at the bottom of the mark details window, which will allow the student to select the Assignment link again and submit another document.

Blackboard Assignment

Access to submitted assignments is via the Grade Centre.

From the Control Panel select Grade Centre, from the drop-down options:

• Needs Marking filters the view to items that have been submitted but not yet marked.
• Full Grade Centre displays a grid of all student names on rows and all items in columns that are gradable within that Blackboard course.
• Assignments displays a grid similar to the Full Grade Centre, but only shows Blackboard Assignments in columns.
• Tests similar to Assignments, displays only Blackboard Tests in columns.

Select Assignments from the Grade Centre options and any unmarked/graded Assignments submitted will show with a yellow Exclamation mark icon under the Grade Centre column of the Assignment title.

• Position your cursor in the table cell with the exclamation mark
• When the cursor is in the cell, a grey drop-down arrow will appear.
• Click on the grey drop-down arrow and it will bring up a menu:

• Select View Mark Details to display the Mark Details window:

• Select View Attempts to view the submitted work.
• The Grade Assignment window will open:

1. Viewing X of Y gradable items – selecting the arrow head will move between different student submissions.
2. Assignment Details – clicking on this will expand and display the Assignment instructions e.g. Due Date, Submitted Date and Status.
3. Attempt – displays each attempt if multiple attempts were permissible and/ or attempted.
4. Submission – List of documents the student has submitted. Clicking on the title of each will either display the text added byu the

If the submission was media embedded via ReCap, owing to the current security settings in Blackboard only a link will show (not a thumbnail of the embedded media). Simply select the link to play the media. For further guidance please see ReCap for Assessment.

Viewing Multiple Attempts

If the Blackboard Assignment was set up to allow Multiple or Unlimited number of attempts, and the student has decided to upload multiple attempts, the attempts would be listed in the Grade Details window:

Selecting either the View Attempts or Grade Attempt will open the Grade Assignment window:

You can select the drop-down next to Attempt to toggle between the different attempts submitted:

To view or download the students’ assignment(s), click on the submission title, which will either display the text added by the student or present the option to download the student’s submission.