Completing Assignments in Blackboard
The Assignments folder in Blackboard provides a place for your instructor to provide you with documents that are to be downloaded to your computer, completed, and then uploaded back into the Assignments folder.
While Assignments is very similar to the Digital Dropbox, activities completed in Assignments are directly tied to the Gradebook. When you complete a learning activity and upload it to Assignments, an entry is automatically created in the Gradebook. Your instructor will then grade the assignment and post in in the Gradebook.
Your instructor will direct you to the Assignments folder when there is a learning activity to complete using Assignments.
The instructions below will provide you with some basic guidelines on how to access, complete, and submit Assignments in Blackboard.
Access the Assignment and complete it
For more information on Assignments in Blackboard, see the User Manual.
1. Access the Assignments folder in Blackboard.
After logging into Blackboard and selecting your course, click on Assignments in the left navigation menu.
2. Select the Assignment.
Be sure to read the instructions with the Assignment. Click on View/Complete Assignment.
If there is a file attached with the Assignment, right click on the file name linking to the document.
Please Note: Your instructor may or may not include a file to be downloaded with the Assignment. Be sure and read the instructions carefully.
3. Click on Save Target As.
4. Select where you wish to store the document on your desktop.
5. Click the Save button.
6. In the Download complete box that appears, click on Open to open your assignment.
7. Complete the learning activity as directed.
Following your instructor's directions, complete the learning activity.
Once you have completed the activity, you will save the file with a new name. Be sure to follow your instructor's directions.
8. Submit your completed activity for grading.
When you have completed the activity, access the Assignment in Blackboard again. Navigate to the Assignments folder and select the assignment again.
9. Now complete Items 2 and 3 of the View/Complete Assignment page:
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Key in your comments to your instructor in the Comments field.
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Click the Browse button and browse to and select your completed activity stored on your desktop. Your file should appear in the Attach local file field.
Please Note: You may attach additional files by clicking the Add Another File button.
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Once you have completed adding your files to the Assignment, Click the Submit button. Your assignment is completed and submitted to your instructor for grading.
Please Note: You must click the Submit button in order to submit your completed assignment to your instructor. The Save button only saves your work -- it does not submit it to your instructor. The Cancel button will cancel your submission.