Technology Enhanced Learning
Blackboard Guides
Blackboard Assignments: a student’s guide
to submitting work and viewing marks and
feedback
Submitting work electronically through Blackboard
There are two main tools which lecturers can use to allow students to submit assignment work
electronically though Blackboard.
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Blackboard Assignment tool - covered by this guide
Turnitin Assignment tool - see separate user guide
You can tell them apart by the different icons.
Both tools work in a similar way. The main difference is that work submitted to Turnitin will be checked
against a variety of electronic sources to produce an “Originality Report”. Another difference is that you
can only submit one file at a time to Turnitin, whereas you can submit multiple files to a Blackboard
Assignment.
Please note that work which you submit via a standard Blackboard Assignment may also be submitted to
Turnitin by the lecturer.
How to submit your work to a Blackboard Assignment
Assignments can be set up in any part of a Blackboard course. But typically they will be found in an area
labelled ‘Assignments’ or ‘Assessments’ or ‘Online Submission’ on the main course menu.
Your lecturer will have provided instructions, and may have attached the assignment brief to the
Blackboard Assignment.
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By clicking on the assignment title, you are taken to a screen where you can submit your completed
work.
Click on Browse My Computer to locate and select the file you need to submit.
If you need to upload multiple files, click Browse My Computer until you have selected each file e.g. you
could upload a Word document, a PowerPoint presentation and an image or audio file.
If you have uploaded a file in error, click on Do not attach to remove the file.
When finished, make sure that you click Submit.
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Optionally, you can click Save Draft to upload the files selected with the ability to return later to upload
additional files and complete the submission. Please note that you MUST press Submit to make the
uploaded files visible to your lecturers.
Your lecturer may have chosen to allow students to submit more than once to the assignment – you
would need to check this with your lecturer. Normally, however, you should not press Submit until you
have uploaded all of your files.
Will I receive a receipt for my work?
Once you have submitted your work, you will see a Success message on screen, saying “This assignment
is complete”.
You can go back into the Assignment at any time and you will be able to see the files you have submitted.
In addition, you will receive an email receipt, This will be sent to your University email account, and will
contain the following information:
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a submission ID
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your name and student number
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the assignment title
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the title and ID of the Blackboard course
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date and time of submission
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a link to the file(s) you submitted
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a link to a web version of the receipt
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Please note:
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Do not delete the email receipt - you should retain it as proof of submission.
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This receipt only indicates that a submission has been made by you on the date and time shown,
and received by Blackboard.
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It is not confirmation that a file you have submitted is correct or has uploaded properly.
Always check the files you have submitted to make sure that they can be viewed or downloaded.
If you had pressed Save instead of Submit, you would see a different message – “The assignment has
been saved”.
This icon
indicates that the submission attempt is still “in progress” and is not yet visible to your
lecturer. Press Continue to make any changes and submit the work.
You will not receive an email receipt when you Save as Draft – only when you Submit.
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As a precaution, you should always keep a backup copy (on your laptop, or USB stick, or even better in a
cloud storage space such as Dropbox or One Drive) of all the files you submit to an assignment.
Viewing your marks and feedback
Your lecturer may provide feedback and/or marks through Blackboard, in which case you will be able to
view these in due course in one of three ways
1. by going back to the Assignment.
2. by going to My Grades on the course menu
If My Grades is not visible, you can go via Tools on the course menu.
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3. from the Global Navigation panel,
top right of the Blackboard screen
Further Help
If you have questions concerning your assessments – how and when you should be submitting work, or
when you should expect to receive feedback and marks – please address these questions directly to
your lecturer.
For further help on using the Blackboard Assignment tool, please see https://enus.help.blackboard.com/Learn/9.1_2014_04/Student/060_Assignments/010_Submit_Assignments
In addition, please see the e-Submission checklist available via the Support for Students tab in
Blackboard.
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