Documentation:Blackboard Learn Support Resources/grading assignments
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Grading Assignments
From any page in your course, click ‘Grade Center’, then ‘Full Grade Center’.
Items that need grading are indicated by a yellow circle.
You will see the student's submission displayed on the left side of the grading window and feedback tools on the right.
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.
The following filetypes will be displayed in the crocodoc viewer and can be annotated.
- -.doc or .docx
- -.ppt or .pptx
- -.xls or .xlsx
Enter the student’s grade in the ‘Attempt’ line.
- 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,
OR,
- 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.