Manually creating an Assignment Submission Point

This is a guide for circumstances where Module Leaders want to manually set up an assignment submission point themselves in Blackboard.

Creating assignment submission point for an extension? See the Students who have been granted a Reasonable Adjustment extension section below.

Important note 1: If an ISIS work item is set up to automatically create a Blackboard assignment for this submission, you should not create one manually or students will have duplicate submission points. If you are unsure how ISIS has been set up, please check with your School Student Programme and Support (SPS) team.

Important note 2: Manually created assignments have no connection with ISIS and so when you release marks to students, the marks will not automatically be extracted to ISIS. If there is a corresponding work item in ISIS for this assessment which is set up as Grade Column Mapping, after you‘ve released the marks, you will need to use the Grade Column Mapping tool to send the marks to ISIS.

  1. Decide where the assessment will be located in the module i.e. which content area from the left hand course menu. This can be in an existing area or you can create a new content area.
  2. Once in the content area click on the Assessments option and from the drop down select Assignment.
    3. example screenshot showing a content area in the left course menu and the assessments drop down with Assignment selected
  3. Give the Submission Point a name and enter the required instructions to students.
    4. example screenshot of the create assignment screen with the name and colour; and the instructions fields highlighted
  4. Optionally attach files using Browse Local Files and selecting the appropriate file.
  5. Set the due date and time – this is the date and time that students must submit by.
  6. Set the Points Possible to 100.
    7. example screenshot of the create assignment screen with the browse my computer; due date; and points possible fields highlighted
  7. Click on the Submission Details area
  8. Change Number of Attempts to unlimited attempts.
  9. Plagiarism Tools – tick the Check submissions for plagiarism using SafeAssign option.
    10. example screenshot of the create assignment screen with the Submission Details; Number of Attempts; and Plagiarism Tools fields highlighted
  10. Please do not change any settings in the Marking Options area.
  11. Expand Display of Marks, and deselect Include in Grade Centre marking calculations and Show to students in My Marks. This is so students cannot see marks entered during the marking - when all the marking is complete, you will need to make the marks visible to students.
  12. Ensure that the Make the Assignment Available option is ticked.
  13. Set the Display after date and time – this is the date and time that the submission point should first become accessible to students.
  14. Set the Display until date and time – this should be 48 hours after your due date and time.
  15. Ensure that Track Number of Views option is ticked.
  16. Click on Submit.
    17. example screenshot of the create assignment screen with the Make the Assignment Available; Display After; Display Until; and Track Number of Views fields highlighted

Your submission point will now be in the content area that you created it in.

The availability will tell you when it will become available to students.

The Assessment can be marked using the Grade Centre.

Information on creating assignments for group submissions can be found at: https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Original/Assignments/Create_and_Edit_Assignments/Group_Assignments. Please ensure that each groups composition is set before submissions commence.

Students who have been granted a Reasonable Adjustment extension

For ISIS fed assignments, your School Student Programme and Support (SPS) team are able to create a Reasonable adjustment extension submission points in Blackboard. However, with manually created assignments, the Module leader needs to create an additional separate assignment submission point and use adaptive release rules so that only the relevant students can see and access it.

  1. Repeat steps 1 to 16 above but set the Display Until date and time for the extension to be the same as the due date and time i.e. students get no further late window after the extension due date. You should name the assignment so that it is clear that this is the extension e.g. RA to Deadline.
  2. Go into the Content area where you've placed the assignment; expand the drop down options to the right of the assignment name and select Adaptive Release.
    3. example screenshot showing the assignment drop down with the adaptive release option highlighted
  3. De-select the tick boxes to the left of the Display after date/time and the Display Until date/time. Please do not set different dates as this will cause issues with student access.
  4. In the Membership section click on Browse and you will get a pop up window with a list of all the students on the module.
    5. example screenshot showing the Membership section and browse button
  5. Select the tick box to the left of any student who has been granted this additional time and then select Submit
  6. The usernames of those students selected will appear in the field to the left of the Browse button.
  7. Select Submit.
  8. Only the students that you have added in the adaptive release will be able to see and access this assignment. However, they will still be able to see and access the original assignment so it is important that you explain to them that they need to use the correct one (tell them how you have labelled it).
  9. As this is a separate assignment, the submissions will be in a separate column in the Grade Centre to the original assignment.

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