submitting your assignments
1.
Essay deadlines for all online submissions are 11:59pm (23:59) on the date due.
2.
Your essay must be submitted as one single file. Do not split your bibliography or appendix
items in to separate documents.
3.
Essay files must be less than 20 MB in size.
4.
Essays must be in either MS Word, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF or plain
text format.
5.
You must include at least your student ID number and ideally your name, assignment
number and course name on each page of your essay.
6.
Confirmation of successful submission will be provided by an automatic email delivered
to your student email address. This is your proof of submission - do not delete this file. If
you do not receive this receipt, re-attempt submission. If your submission is still not
accepted, follow the Alternative Email Essay Submission steps outlined in point 11 below.
7.
Assignments will be open for late submission until the final school deadline date.
8.
Penalties for late submission are applied in the same way as for paper submission, except
that essays are not deducted 2% until midnight of each overdue day.
9.
Resubmitting Essays:
a.
Before the essay deadline has passed submitted essays are considered draft and
can be resubmitted/overwritten repeatedly. To resubmit work simply click the
resubmit button from the assignment submission screen (assignment inbox &
portfolio).
b.
After the essay deadline essays cannot be resubmitted.
10. If you are having difficulties accessing BLE, your course or your assignment screen refer to
the Technical Support page at: http://www.soas.ac.uk/artshumanities/office/ocs/support/
11. If all attempts to submit your essay via BLE fail, you may email your essay. There are
specific email addresses and steps required to do so. Guidelines are at:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/artshumanities/office/ocs/alternative/
12. If submitting your essay AFTER the essay deadline it is advisable you email your course
tutor to advise them as soon as you have submitted. Tutors will not automatically be notified
of late submissions and failure to contact them could result in your essay not being marked
by the final school deadline.
13. If for any reason you know you will be unable to use the online submission system please
advise your tutor and relevant faculty office contact during the first class of the term.
Applications for paper submissions will not be accepted after this time. As online
submissions are run through plagiarism checking software, any paper submissions must be
accompanied by electronic submissions.
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guide
step 1
Login to BLE at
http://www.ble.ac.uk using either
Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari
web browsers.
Google Chrome is not yet fully
supported...
step 2
Select Assignments from the left
menu bar...
step 3
Click on View/Complete under the
assignment you wish to submit to...
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If this is the first time you have
accessed TurnitinUK for
assignment submission
a self check may be
performed to ensure your
operating system, web browser,
Java version and cookies settings
are compatible.
If issues have been flagged up as
problematic follow the Help Center
link for solutions. If this does not
resolve your issues, contact the
SOAS BLE office at
ble@soas.ac.uk .
When you have fixed any issues,
select Run system check again...
step 5
At the assignment screen click the
submit icon...
step 6
Select the type of paper submission
method you will be performing
(single file upload, or cut and
paste).
Confirm your first and last name is
correctly entered – this should be
automatic.
Give your essay a submission
title...
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Click Choose File (if using Safari)
or Browse (if using Firefox) to
select the essay you wish to
upload...
NOTE: file size and file format
restrictions.
step 8
Click upload to begin uploading
your file...
step 9
Following the upload of your essay
a preview of the file will be
displayed...
NOTE this is a text-only preview.
No formatting, footnotes or pictures
will be displayed. This screen is to
provide a final check that the text of
your essay matches what you were
expecting to upload. If so, your
essay, with all its original
formatting, will be ready to submit.
step 10
FINAL STEP: If satisfied that the
correct file has been uploaded
complete your submission by
clicking submit at the bottom of
the screen...
If you have made a mistake in your
upload, click return to upload
page to restart the submission
process.
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Final confirmation of your
successful upload will then be
provided.
You will also receive an email
confirmation message to your
student email account.
If you fail to receive either of
these messages restart the
submission process.
further options
Clicking go to portfolio or returning
to the assignments menu will bring
you back to the main submission
screen.
From here you can –

Resubmit your assignment
by selecting the resubmit
button...

Check/Download the
submitted version of your
essay by clicking on the
document icon from the
Show details view...

View your essay grade and
feedback by clicking on the
apple icon.
Grades are only available
once the apple has “ripened”
to red. This will happen
when all essays have been
marked and your tutor is
happy for grades and
comments to be released.
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After clicking on the Grademark symbol
marked assignment.
you will be taken to your
Page | 6 viewing grades
Your essay score will be displayed in the
top right of the screen...
NOTE: This score excludes any late
penalties or deductions and is subject to
change following external examiner review.
general comments
Overall essay comments can be opened by
selecting general comments from the
bottom right of the screen...
comment summary
A listing of all inline comments can be
opened by clicking comment list at the
bottom right of the screen...
individual comments
Individual comments can be opened by
clicking on speech bubble symbols...
If you have any queries about your marks or comments, please contact
your tutor or faculty office.
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