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Topic Overview
Blackboard Assignments can be graded online allowing students immediate feedbackStudent work submitted through the assignment tool allows instructors to submit a grade, comments, and markup on some document types that are privately visible to the student or student group that made the submission. Instructors can also make grading notes visible only to themselves and those with a Teaching Assistant or Grader role in the course.
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When used with group assignments, all members of the group can view comments without requiring the instructor to duplicate grading. You can also add comments to individual group members. |
Steps
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Accessing Student Submissions
Grading can be accessed from the "Needs Grading" area or directly from the Grade Center. To do so from the Grade Center, click in the cell of the assignment you want to grade, and select "Attempt xx/xx/xxxx," where xx/xx/xxxx is the date the assignment was submitted:
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2. The Grade Assignment window opens:
(Note: these file types are supported: Microsoft® Word (DOC, DOCX); Microsoft® PowerPoint® (PPT, PPTX); Microsoft® Excel® (XLS, XLSX); PDF.)
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- Clicking the print icon allows you to print the assignment file.
- Clicking down arrow icon allows you to download a PDF file of the assignment including annotations.
- Clicking the "comment bubble" icon lets you add a comment anywhere in the assignment.
- Highlighting text opens a pop-up that gives you the choice to add a comment to the highlighted text or just to leave it highlighted:
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- Hovering over a comment to expands it, allowing you to read it:
3. You can enter the grade for the assignment on the right side along with overall comments for the student or personal notes by clicking on the expand chevron:
This reveals the comment section:
the assignment by submission date. If multiple attempts were made, they will appear here in a list:
Grading Interface
The right panel of the inline grading tool allow instructors to:
- Input a grade value
- Change between attempts if a student has been allowed to submit more than one per assignment
- Give feedback visible to the submitting student (or group)
- Attach files for a student
- Add notes for grading reference
- Access rubrics if you have applied them to the assignment
If you do not see all of the tools, locate the small triangle and click to expand.
Markup tools
Beginning on June 3, 2020 the markup tools in Blackboard have been updated to Blackboard Annotate, which looks as outlined in orange in the picture below.
Documentation on the Annotate interface is available from Blackboard. Markup previously created in the older tool provided by Box will be converted into the new Annotate format.
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Rubrics allow for more detailed and focused comments. Look at the Answers page on Rubrics or contact Online Learning Services for more information. |
Sources and Relevant Links
Getting Started with Assignments
Blackboard's Inline Grading Help page
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