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Blackboard: Clearing or deleting a Blackboard Assignment submission

Introduction.

You may find that you need to clear a submission made to a Blackboard Assignment link. For example, a student may have mistakenly submitted the wrong file.

Important information!

Clearing an assignment

1.    In your course, go to the Control Panel > Full Grade Centre .

Control Panel with Full Grade Centre link highlighted

2.    Click on the downward grey chevron arrow icon in the right of the cell corresponding to the submission.

3.    Select View Grade Details .

Drop down menu within grade centre to access Grade details

4.    Select Clear Attempt in the bottom right of the page.

Clearing an attempt , highlighting the button

5.    Blackboard will issue a warning message reminding you that the submission cannot be recovered.  Click OK to delete the attempt.

Warning message of action being final

You will see in the Grade Centre that the ‘Needs Grading’ icon has disappeared, indicating that the attempt has been deleted.

Grade Centre view with blank space where attempt was cleared

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After completing this how-to you will have knowledge needed to delete an assignment submission for a student.  For other guides on the Assignment tool, see the  Assignments topic page .

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