Documentation:Blackboard Learn Support Resources/grading assignments

=Grading Assignments=

From any page in your course, click ‘Grade Center’, then ‘Full Grade Center’.

 * Click the dropdown menu in the cell of the

Note:

There are multiple ways that a student’s submission may be displayed, depending upon the type of submission:
 * ’Submission Text’ is text entered directly into the assignment submission text-box and cannot be annotated.
 * Uploaded MS Office* or PDF documents will appear in a ‘crocodoc’ viewer and can be annotated.
 * A download link will appear if students upload a file type different from MS Office or PDF. This file cannot be annotated online

You can read the student’s submission right in your browser unless the student uploaded a file type other than MS Office or PDF supported file types end with the following extensions:

 * -.doc or .docx
 * -.ppt or .pptx
 * -.xls or .xlsx
 * -.pdf



Enter the student’s grade in the ‘Attempt’ line.
OR,
 * Click the ‘Grading Notes’ button in the ‘Attempt’ line to enter notes for yourself.
 * These notes are not shown to the student.
 * Enter feedback for the student in the ‘Grader Feedback’ box,
 * Attach your feedback file by clicking the paper clip in the bottom left corner.
 * Click ‘Submit’ to return the assignment to the student.



If your student uploads an MS Office or PDF file, you may annotate the submission using the crocodoc tool.

 * Highlight a section of text and then click ‘Comment’ for options.
 * You can enter comments, draw, highlight text, enter textboxes or strikeout text (see bottom image).
 * Enter the student’s grade and any comments as in #3, above.
 * Click ‘Submit’ to return the assignment to the student.



Note: You may notice that entering comments in crocodoc requires a widescreen monitor.



Unsupported filetypes are displayed with a ‘Download’ link for offline viewing.


=Needs Grading=

You may also click ‘Needs Grading’ under the ‘Grade Center’ link to access a list of assignments which need grading.

 * Click ‘Grade All’ to begin grading assignments.
 * Click ‘Filter’ to show or hide the filter bar.
 * Set filter parameters and click ‘Go’ to filter items in the list.
 * Click the header of any column to sort items in the list.
 * Click the triangle beside the header to reverse the sort.
 * Click a student’s name to grade his/her assignment.
 * Hover over an Item Name and click the dropdown (not shown in this image) to grade all student submissions for that item.
 * Customize your paging preferences with the buttons at the bottom of the page.



If you have questions, please contact elearningfacilitator@tru.ca.