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• Select the content folder that contains the assignment you would like to submit (e.g. Week 1: Chapter 1).
• Click the title of the assignment.
• On the  Upload Assignment  page, choose  Write Submission to type your work directly in the Blackboard text editor. Alternatively, you can click Browse My Computer to upload a file such as a Word document or PDF.
• In the  Add Comments section, you can type any additional information you would like to share with your instructor.
• Click  Save as Draft if you would like to return to the submission later or Submit if you are ready to turn in the assignment now.

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Creating an Assignment

Log into your Blackboard course, and go to the content area you would like to add the assigment to.  At the top of the page, click on the Create Assessment button and choose Assignment.

Setting up Assignment Information

Assignment Information allows you to enter a description for the assignment.

• Name and Color: Enter a name for the assignment here, and use the color selector to change the color of the assignment link.
• Instructions: Enter a description for the assignment using the provided textbox.

Attaching Files to the Assignment

Assignment Files allows you to attach a file to the assignment, for example assignment guidelines or a sample assignment.  To attach a file, click on the Browse Local Files to attach a file from your computer, or click Browse Course Files to attach a file that has already been added to the course content collection. Users can also drag a file from their computer into this area to upload a file.

Setting up the Assignment Due Date

Due Dates allows users to set a due date for the assignment.  To set a due date, check the box and use the date and time pickers to set the due date.  The due date will be recorded in the students' To Do module, and will create a calendar entry for the student.  If students submit an assignment past the due date, the system will mark it as late.

Setting up Grading Information

The Grading section allows you to specify the point value for the assignment.

• Points Possible: Enter the point value for the assignment.  If you are setting up the assignment for extra credit, enter 0.
• Associated Rubrics: If you have created an interactive rubric, click the Add Rubric button to add the rubric to the assignment.
• Submission Details: Click on Submission Details to expand this section to set up parameters related to the submission of the assignment
• Grading Options: Click on Grading Options to enable options related to anonymous grading and delegated grading.
• Display of Grades: Click on Display of Grades to determine how grades will be displayed to students.

Setting up Assignment Submission Details

After clicking on Submission Details, the screen will expand to show the following options:

• Assignment Type : Choose the type of assignment submission ( Individual Submission, Group Submission, or Portfolio Submission )
• Number of Attempts: Select the number of attempts to allow students to make (Single Attempt, Multiple Attempts, Unlimited Attempts).
• Maximum Attempts: If you selected multiple attempts, enter the maximum number of allowed attempts here.
• Score Attempts Using: If you selected multiple or unlimited attempts, select the desired option for reporting graded attempts to students ( Last Graded Attempt, Highest Attempt, Lowest Attempt, First Graded Attempt, or Average of Graded Attempts) .
• Plagiarism tools: Check the box for the option labeled Check Submissions for plagiarism using Safe Assign to check students for plagiarism.
• Allow students to view Safe Assign Originality Report for their attempts : Check this checkbox to make the safe assign report visible to student.
• Exclude Submissions: Check this option to exclude student papers from SafeAssign's databases.

Assigning the Assignment to Groups

To assign the assignment to groups:

• Select the Group Submission option under Assignment Type.
• Items to Select: Select the groups from the left column you wish to assign the assignment to.
• Click the right-facing arrow button to select the groups and move them into the Selected Items column:
• Selected Items : Groups to which the assignment has been assigned will appear here.

Modifying Grading Options

Note regarding the Delegated Grading feature: Users with TA or instructor access to your course can already grade assignments, use delegated grading only if you wish to assign grading responsibilities to multiple other instructors or TAs, and if you wish to approve provisional grades before being posted to the grade center.

To modify grading options, click on the link labeled Grading Options:

• Enable Anonymous Grading: Check this option to hide usernames when grading students' attempts. After checking this option, users will be given the option to disable grading on a specific date, or after all items have been graded.
• Enable Delegated Grading: Check this box to enable delegated grading, which allows instructors to assign users to grade students' attempts.
• Show: Use this dropdown menu to show All Possible Graders, All Assigned Graders, and All Unassigned Graders.
• Grader: A list of all eligible graderes will appear here.
• Submissions to Grade: Use the dropdown menu next to each grader to assign grading responsibilities. Graders can be assigned to All Submissions , a Random Selection of graded attempts, or specific student Groups.
• View Settings: Check the checkbox to allow the grader to view other graders' scores, feedback, and notes.  This option is checked by default for users with a role of Instructor .
• Reconcile Grades: a +/- icon will indicate that the user has permission to reconcile items graded by other users.  Instructor users have this permission by default, while the ability to reconcile grades must be assigned to other users with Grade Center access (e.g. TA's, graders).

For more information on Delegated Grading, please review the following guides:

• Delegated Grading Information
• Reconciling Grades

Modifying Grade Display Options

Clicking on the item labeled Display of Grades allows you to change how the results are displayed to students:

• Display Grade As: Primary: Use the dropdown menu to show how grades are displayed to students and in the Grade Center:  The available options are S core, Percentage, Letter, Text or Complete/Incomplete.
• Display Grade As: Secondary: Use the dropdown menu to show a secondary grade display in the Grade Center.  The secondary display is not shown to students.  The available options are Score, Percentage, Letter, Text, or Complete/Incomplete.
• Include in Grade Center Grading Calculations: Check this box to include assignment scores in the Grade Center calculations.
• Show to Students in My Grades: Check this box to show the results to students. Uncheck this box to hide the results from students.
• Show Statistics (average and median) for this item to Students in My Grades: Check this box to show the average and median grades to students.

Setting up the Assignment Availability

The Availability section allows you to edit the assignment's visibility to students.

• Make the Assignment Available: Check this box to make the assignment visible to students.
• Limit Availability: Check the boxes and use the date and time selectors to limit the availability of the dropbox.
• Track Number of Views : Check this box to enable statistics tracking on the item.
• When finished, click the Submit button to create the assignment.

If you have an assignment setup for your course, you might want to provide the following link that gives students step-by-step instructions on how to make an assignment submission. http://utlv.screenstepslive.com/s/student/m/23191/l/237264-submitting-an-assignment

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Creating Assignments

Assignments are created in Content Areas, but can also be added to Learning Modules, Lesson Plans, and folders. Any instructions and file attachments that students need to complete the assignment are provided at the time of creation. You can deliver assignments to each student individually or as collaborative work for groups of students.

As assignments are created, you will work in Edit Mode ON. Edit Mode ON allows you to view all of the instructor functions.

The easiest way to collect assignments, papers, or files from your students is to create an Assignment in Blackboard.

• In Edit Mode ON click the Assignments link on your course’s homepage.
• Click on Assessments.

• On the Create Assignment page, enter a Name for your assignment.  This is required.
• In the Instructions box, add the instructions for the assignment–if desired. This is optional.

• If you are going to accept late submissions, select and set the Due Date and time.  If you are not going to accept late submissions, leave this section blank.
• Scroll down and enter the Points Possible.
• For Number of Attempts, we strongly recommend that you either allow unlimited attempts or allow a certain number of attempts rather than allowing just a single attempt.  Experience shows that at least one of your students will accidentally submit the wrong file or accidentally submit an assignment with no file attached.  If you set Number of Attempts to Allow Single attempt, that student will be locked out of the assignment and you will need to manually clear his or her assignment attempt in your Grade Center before the student will be able to submit the correct file.  However, choosing to allow 2 attempts gives your students one “do-over” if they need it and it and won’t impact your grading at all because, by default, Blackboard shows you the student’s most recent submission (although there is an option to view and download a student’s previous submissions.)
• Select the checkbox to Make the Assignment Available. This makes your Assignment available to students, although you can choose the date and time that students can see or not see this Assignment under Limit Availability.
• Select and set Display After for the date and time you will start accepting student submissions and select and set Display Until for the date and time the assignment is due.  This prevents students from submitting assignments after the deadline.

Blackboard will display a green success box telling you that you assignment has been successfully created.  To see what your assignment looks like from a student’s point of view, turn Edit Mode off.

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Uploading a submission

The following information will help you submit your paper to Turnitin through your learning management system or virtual learning environment. Before you proceed, we advise checking that the file you'd like to submit will be accepted. Check out the accepted file types and sizes before you begin.

• From the Turnitin assignment dashboard, select Upload Submission to make a submission to the assignment.

If the Upload Submission button is unavailable, you may be attempting to submit before the start date or after the due date. Select the assignment name at the top to check your assignment's key dates and any additional settings that may be affecting your submission.

Only a single file may be submitted to a Turnitin assignment. Any second or subsequent submission will overwrite the original submission in this assignment. Contact your instructor if there is more than one file that must be submitted to complete the directions given by your instructor; additional assignments may be created or you may need to combine multiple documents into a single file of an acceptable file type to be uploaded into Turnitin.

The upload submission option allows you to submit your paper to the assignment in a variety of ways by directly loading the file from the device.

• Select the upload method from the tabs at the top of the Submit File modal.

• Upload Submission - Allows you to upload an allowed file type directly to Turnitin.
• Select the Browse button, or drag your file directly onto the modal.
• Text Input - Allows you to submit just the text of your assignment directly to Turnitin.
• Select the Text Input tab.

• Enter or paste your submission title into the Submission Title field.
• Enter or paste your submission text into the Submission Text field.
• Cloud Submission - Allows you to submit from a cloud drive.
• Select the Cloud Submission tab and choose a submission option from the dropdown.

• Select your file within the cloud drive.
• Select Upload and Review to proceed to the review stage.

If resubmissions are not enabled for this assignment, you may not be able to resolve any incorrect submissions.

• Select Submit to Turnitin to submit your assignment.

You will see a submission complete notice if your submission was successful. Please don't leave the submission process until you have seen this notice.

• If resubmissions are allowed for the assignment and you need to resubmit your paper, you can click the resubmission icon. If you resubmit an edited paper, it will not compare to the first submission you made (i.e. you will not match the text to the previous submission resulting in a 90% match score).

Some assignments may allow the ability to overwrite your previous submission until an assignment's due date. This option is activated by an instructor on an assignment-by-assignment basis. If resubmissions are not enabled, your instructor must manually delete your previous submission to allow you to submit a second time.

If resubmissions are enabled, you may resubmit via the assignment dashboard .

After resubmitting to an assignment, a warning message will appear. This message serves to notify you that, if resubmissions are enabled and the reports are set to generate immediately, the first three resubmissions made will generate a report immediately but on the fourth resubmission, there is a 24-hour processing period for similarity report generation. Reports cannot be forced by your instructor or Turnitin staff. Please wait for this 24-hour period to elapse before making an inquiry.

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