The GW Blackboard Tour: Keeping a Gradebook
Tour Stop 1. Collecting Assignments

Screen shot of Collecting Assignments viewWhen you add an Assignment to any of your Content Areas within your Blackboard course, a column is automatically added to your Gradebook.

As your students “turn in” their Assignments, you notice an “!” next to the individual student’s name, in the Assignment column. For any one student, you may view their work, assign a score, write feedback, and even post a file back to her or him.

 

You also have the option of collecting all of the submitted student work at once by downloading a .zip file of all of their submissions to your computer for review at a later time.

Access and download an assignment submission

  1. Control Panel > Gradebook (from Assessment Pane)
  2. Exclamation Point (!) link (this action would be for each individual student)
  3. View button
  4. Download the file or read the assignment online and enter the grade, feedback to students and/or any instructor notes to you (these are not visible by the student)
Submit button

Clear a student’s attempt

  1. Control Panel > Gradebook (from Assessment Pane)
  2. Exclamation Point (!) link or Padlock link (this action would be for each individual student)
  3. View button
  4. Clear Attempt button
Submit button

Access for download and grade assignment submissions by all students

  1. Control Panel > Gradebook (from Assessment Pane)
  2. Item title (this is the title/link of the assignment column)
  3. Item Download link
  4. Check All (note, that you can select individual students as well using the checkboxes next to their names – the check boxes appear only if students have submitted a file)
  5. Submit button
  6. download assignments now link (this allows you to save the .zip file on your own computer to be viewed at your leisure)

After reviewing all the assignments…

  1. Control Panel > Gradebook (from Assessment Pane)
  2. Item title (this is the title/link of the assignment column)
  3. Item Grade List link
  4. Enter the grade for each student in the Grade column
Submit button