Blackboard Vista: Grading and Publishing Assignments

Step 1: Selecting Assignment Dropbox

1. From the Teach tab, under “Instructor Tools”, click Assignment Dropbox. The Assignment Dropbox screen is displayed.
   

Step 2: Viewing Submitted Assignments

1. Click the Submitted tab. The list of submitted assignments is displayed.
   

Step 3: Grading Assignments

1. Locate the submission you want to grade and click the title of the assignment. The Assignment Submission screen is displayed.
2. View the submission, including any attachments.
   

Step 4: Grading Assignments

1. In the “Grader/Reviewer Comments:” text box, enter your comments.
2. Under “Save Options”, select Return graded submission to Student and, in the text box, enter the grade.
3. Click Save.
4. The assignment is moved to the Graded tab, the grade is automatically added to the Grade Book (not illustrated).
   

Step 5: Publishing Submissions

You can publish submissions that you would like all students in your course to see.

1. In the “Assignment Dropbox”, for the assignment you are working with, from the ActionLinks drop-down menu, select Publish Controls.
   

Step 6: Publishing Submissions

1. Click Publish. The submission is copied to the Published tab and made available to the entire class for viewing.
   

Step 7: Publishing Submissions

1. Click the Published tab. The assignment you wanted to publish is now listed under the published tab.
   

Step 1: Selecting Assignment Dropbox

1. From the Teach tab, under “Instructor Tools”, click Assignment Dropbox. The Assignment Dropbox screen is displayed.
   

Step 2: Viewing Submitted Assignments

1. Click the Submitted tab to view all assignment submissions.
2. Click the View by: drop-down arrow to select a particular assignment. In this example we have selected the Case Study assignment.
3. Click the Go arrow to sort by the selected assignment. In this example only submissions for the Case Study assignment are displayed.
   

Step 3: Selecting All Assignments

1. Check the Checkbox to the left of the heading "Title". This will select all students' assignment submissions.
2. Click Create Printable View.
3. The Compiled Submissions screen is displayed.
   

Step 4: Previewing Compiled Submissions

1. For all submitted assignments the Instructions, Grading Criteria, Submission (including attachments), and Comments are displayed.
2. Click Save to File.
   
   NOTE: To print compiled submissions, click Print.

Step 5: Downloading Multiple Assignments

1. The following message is displayed: "Selected submissions have been saved to your Content Manager, accessible from My Blackboard Vista."
2. To download the submissions, click zipped assignment submissions link. In this example the link is titled Blackboard Workship 015-AssignmentSubmissions-2008-Apr-28-04-49-50.zip.
   

Step 6: Saving Multiple Assigments

1. Click Save to download compressed (or zipped) assignment submissions folder to computer.
   

Step 7: Locating Downloaded Assignments

1. Select location to save the compressed assignment submissions folder on your computer. In this example, we saved the compressed assignment submissions folder on the Desktop.
2. Click Save.
   

Step 8: Accessing Downloaded Assignments

1. Locate the compressed assignment submission folder on your computer. In this example, we saved the folder on the Desktop.
2. Double-click the folder to access the files located within the folder (not illustrated).
   
   NOTE: Once you have graded all assignments, you will need to log back into Blackboard Vista to record the grades in the grade book.
   
   NOTE: Edited assignments can be returned to students through the Assignment Dropbox.