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How to Add an Assignment Using the Assignment Feature |
Using the Assignment feature enables you to track assignments at all phases of
the assignment cycle. Upon the
creation of an assignment, there is a grade book entry automatically created. After
you have added an assignment
to your course Blackboard will track the following: when students hand in
assignments, assignments by student,
point value information, any comments added both from student or instructor,
and has the ability to keep copies
of everything online attached to the student’s name and grade. There is even an assignment manger area where
you can easily clean out unwanted assignments from being stored in your course.
1. Login to Blackboard and enter the
course where you would like to add an assignment.
2. Click on the
Control Panel link.
3. Enter in the content area where you
would like to post your new assignment.
4. Use the dropdown menu at the right
of the content management menu bar, and select
Assignment
then click the GO button.
5. Under the Content Information area:
a. Key in the Assignment title in the Name textbox.
b. Key in the possible points for this assignment in
the Points Possible text box
c. Key in any important information and instructions
necessary for the student to know in order to
complete the assignment correctly in the Instructions
textbox.
6. Under the Availability Options area:
a. Click the YES button students will be able to see
this assignment as soon as you save it to blackboard.
Click the NO button if you do not want the student to see or access this
assignment.
b. If you wish to track how many times
all students accessed the assignment, click on yes to track
number of views. By clicking yes for
this option will add another button next the assignment so that
you may produce stat reports on this assignment.
c.
Click on the Display After checkbox to set the day/time the assignment will appear
to students Click on the Display Until checkbox to set the day/time the assignment will
disappear from students By
using both the Display After and Display Until you can set the assignment to
appear at a specific day/time and disappear at a specific day/time. You can
modify/change these options at any time.
If desired, you can set when the assignment will be visible
to students by date and time:
Alliteratively
you can also set the dates by using a graphical calendar by clicking on the
icon that looks like a calendar. See
the box below on how to use the graphical calendar option.
To use
the graphical calendar, just click on the arrows << &
>> near the month title to move forward and backwards between
months. When you
have the date you need, just click on the date and the drop down box
associated with the graphic calendar will update!
7. The “Attachments” area is where you will point Blackboard to the file
you wish to be added as an assignment.
a. Click on the
Browse button.
b. Navigate to where you have the
document you wish to add, and double click on the file name to select file.
c.
In
the text box labeled Name of Link to File, key in a text
that will represent the Hypertext link students
will click on to open the HTML file you are adding to Blackboard.
Example: Click here to open up today’s
lecture.
8. Click the 
button
to upload assignment to your course and post an entry for the assignment
in your grade book.
9. You have just successfully added content
in the form of an assignment to your Blackboard course.
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