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Download Assignments

Downloading assignments refers to the grading data of student submissions, handled through the Grade Center (for Bb Original Courses) and the Gradebook (for Bb Ultra Courses).

Download Assignments from the Grade Center (Original)

• Log in to learn.bu.edu using your BU login name and Kerberos password
• Enter your course using the My Courses  widget.

• Select  Assignments under  Full Grade Center .
• Click on the down-pointing chevron next to the column title of the assignment that you wish to download.

• On the Download Assignment page, select the check boxes to download available submissions.
• Click   Submit . You’ll see a message confirming that the files have been exported.

Download Assignments from the Gradebook (Ultra)

The following instructions detail how to download assignments from the Course Gradebook in Blackboard Ultra. For more information and instructions about using the Gradebook, check out this page .

To accelerate your grading process, you can download students’ assessment submissions and view them offline. You can download all or only selected submissions as a single ZIP file. Unzip or expand the file to view the contents.

• Each submission is saved as a separate file with each student’s username.
• Your TAs, Facilitators, and Graders are also allowed to download assessment submissions.
• From the  Institution Page  or your course’s  Course Content page, navigate to the Ultra  Gradebook .
• List view : Item’s   Submissions   page > menu in the header row

• If you allowed multiple attempts, the files for all attempts for each student are included.
• Select   Create ZIP File   to start the process.
• In the pop-up box, select   Send . The file is created in the background and you automatically return to the   Submissions   list page or grid view. The process takes a few moments based on the size of the file.

• If you delete the email and course message with the link to download the file, you have to rerun the download.

You can also download the full gradebook or select columns from your Ultra courses. You can export the file in a comma-delimited (CSV) or tab-delimited (XLS) format. Visit the Blackboard Learn Ultra Gradebook instructions page to learn more.

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Blackboard: Downloading files submitted to a Blackboard Assignment

Introduction.

This guide describes how to download the files submitted by students to a Blackboard Assignment.

You can download

• individual files, from the Blackboard Annotate marking interface
• all files submitted to an assignment, or files submitted by specific students, via the Grade Centre.

Downloading individual files

When you are viewing a specific student’s submission, you can view most file types inside the browser.

You can also download individual files.

You might want to do this

• to mark files not supported by Blackboard Annotate
• to check apparent oddities in the way files are formatted on-screen .

Downloading multiple files

• Locate the column for the assignment.
• Click on the More Options button beside the title of the assignment in the column header.

• From the Download Assignment page you can: ·        Select individual assignments to download by ticking the box beside the student’s name. ·        Choose to download all of the assignments by ticking the box next to the Name column header.
• Under Select Files, you can choose if you want to download: ·        The ‘Last attempt file’ – this will download the most recent submission a student has made (and in most circumstances is the attempt you want to mark or review). ·        Or ‘All attempt files’ – this will download every submission attempt a student has made (where multiple submissions has been allowed).
• Click Submit .

8.    The assignments are prepared for downloading and the Download Assignment page shows that the assignments have been packaged.

9.    Click on the text ‘ Download assignment now ’ to download the files to your computer

‘Assignment title_student username_Attempt date and time_Original title of the file’

A corresponding text file with the same file name is produced that shows the student’s name and submission details, this includes, any additional comments the student made.

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How to View and Download Blackboard Assignment Submissions

After students have submitted assignments you may view them online or download them.  If you download assignments you have the option to download all assignments en masse.

Grade Centre

1. From your course’s Control Panel, expand the Grade Centre menu and choose Full Grade Centre .

Columns and Rows

2. Within the Grade Centre you will see a column corresponding to any assignments you have created.

3. Each row shows a student on the course. Where their row meets the assignment column you will see if they have made a submission . The icon legend will explain the icons you may see. When a student has made a submission the “ needs grading ” icon appears. This is a quick way to identify those who have made a submission and those who have not.

In the next slides we will look at viewing and downloading individual submissions and then at downloading submissions en masse .

Individual Submissions

4. To view an individual student’s submission first identify the cell where the student’s row corresponds with the assignment column and hover you mouse over it.

5. An action button will appear, click on it to reveal a menu .

6. Click on View Grade Details .

Grade Details

7. The Grade Details screen summarises a number of details about the submission such as when it was made, how many attempts have been submitted, and any feedback and scores that have already been entered.

8. To view a student’s submission click on View Attempts .

Preview and download

9. You are presented with a preview of the file. This is possible with certain filetypes that can be previewed.

10. The student’s accompanying comments are displayed on the right .

11. To download the file click on the download   icon , which is encircled in the above screenshot.

12. Next we will look at how to download all submissions en masse.

13. Go back to the Grade Centre .

Assignment File Download

14. Find the column that corresponds to your assignment and hover your mouse pointer over the name of the assignment at the top of the column. Click on the action button .

15. Choose Assignment File Download from the menu that appears.

Select Students

16. Select the students whose submissions you wish to download by placing a tick in the box beside their name . Note that you may select all by ticking the box at the top of the column as shown in the screenshot.

17. Choose whether you wish to download the most recent attempt , or all attempts .

18. Click Submit .

19. A zip file containing the assignments will be made available to you to download.

20. Right click on the link to the file and choose Save link as…

21. Choose where to save the file. You may then open it from your computer and access the submissions.

Blackboard (Faculty) - Assignments: Download Assignment Files

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There may come a time when you want to download all of your student files at one time when grading. It is also a good practice to keep copies of student assignments for future reference.

• From the Control Panel, click on Grade Center , then click on Full Grade Center .

• Click Submit .

• To access the files, double click on the .zip file on your computer and Extract the files.
• Blackboard (Faculty) - Assignments: About Blackboard Assignments
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Downloading papers

You can download and save papers submitted to an assignment one by one, or in bulk, as a zip file. If the GradeMark or Peer Review products are active on your account, you will have the option of downloading a PDF version of the submission, or the file in its original format.

• For Peer Review and GradeMark accounts, a pop-up window will prompt you to opt to download the submission in its originally submitted format, or in PDF format.

Media files can only be downloaded in their original format.

Bulk downloading papers

You can also download papers in bulk into a zip file, either in the submission's original file format or in GradeMark format.

• Click on ok to accept the download.
• We'll now work away in the background creating a zip file with your requested files. Feel free to use Turnitin as normal while we process your files.

• Inside your Messages tab you will have a new notification from us. Open the message to find your download link.

Downloading files in the document viewer

Files can be downloaded directly from the document viewer.

By clicking Download PDF of the current view for printing when dealing with a media file submission, only the submission information and comments added in GradeMark will appear within the PDF.

Downloading media files in the document viewer

When opening a media file submission in the Turnitin Document Viewer, you will immediately be prompted to download the file in its original format. From here, you can provide feedback on the submission in GradeMark using the blank paper provided.

• Select the title of the paper from the Title column in the Assignment Inbox; this will open the paper in the Document Viewer.

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Questions of the Month at the ILSC (April 2024)

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Here are the highlights of faculty questions from April. These are not necessarily the most frequently asked questions, but helpful for all faculty members.

Question (Linked assignment not visible to students) : I have a link to an assignment and made it visible to students, but students can’t see it. Why?

Answer: Original assignment you linked to is not visible to students because it is inside a container that is hidden (either folder or module that is not set to visible).

Question (HTML file and referenced files): I am trying to upload an HTML file and its referenced files in the Course Content on Blackboard, but it doesn’t seem to work. Why might this be happening?

Answer: When you have multiple files associated with an HTML file, create a zip file that maintains the file structure, then upload it to the Course Content Collection (not the Tools Content Collection). Blackboard may not display files from the Tools Content Collection accurately, but files uploaded from the Course Content Collection will be shown correctly. ( Step-by-step guide )

Question (Assessment due date): How can I accommodate students to provide different due dates in assessments?

Answer : For each assessment, you can set different due dates and submission limits for students. To do this, navigate to the Gradebook and select the assessment you want to adjust. Click on the ellipsis (…) next to the student for whom you want to change the due date, and modify the settings before saving. This gives the student a unique due date and submission limit. Repeat this procedure for any other students needing accommodations for the assessment.

For more information, please visit our help guide .

Question (Test duration) : I want to limit the test duration and enforce a deadline. The test must be completed by 4:00 p.m. tomorrow. While the test duration is 60 minutes, I don’t want latecomers to start at 4:30 and finish at 5:30. Instead, I want all tests to be completed by 4:00 p.m. This means that late comers will have shorter time to complete the test. How can I achieve this on Blackboard Ultra?

Answer: You can achieve this in the Test settings. Set the due date and time, then select “Prohibit late submissions”. This will automatically submit any ongoing tests at the due time.

Question (Gradebook): I was working on the Gradebook, and the next morning, I noticed that all the grades were gone! How can I get them back?

Answer: You can go to the Gradebook, and from the top right corner, click “Download Gradebook”. Select “Grade History” and check “Include deleted items”. This will give you the excel sheet showing the past history of entries in the Gradebook. You may have to manually record each grade that was deleted, but you are able to recover grades.

Please note that while grades can be retrieved, the submitted content cannot. If you need to access the content after grading, consider creating a backup.

For an assignment, navigate to the assignment from the Gradebook for which you want to download all submissions. Select “…” from the righthand side of the header, then click on “download all”.

Please see the following for more information: Step-by-step guide and Anthology Blackboard Help .

To back up students’ responses to all questions in a test, go to the Gradebook, select Gradable Items, and click on the options next to the test you want to back up. Then select “Download Results”. This will download all responses in a CSV file. (See Step-by-step guide )

Question (Respondus LockDown Browser): I used Respondus LockDown Browser for a test. I set the following two options; 1) to lock students until the exam was over, and 2) to view post-exam feedback and results. After the exam, the post-exam feedback reported “This exam session was terminated because a modified version of a blocked application was running on the computer”. What does this mean, and is there any detailed information I can pull from a log file somewhere?

Answer: There are no further information available from Respondus Lockdown Browser. However, this means that a program LockDown Browser blocks has been intentionally modified by the computer’s user in an attempt to get around the security that LockDown Browser provides. LockDown Browser has detected this hack, and then shutted down. This modification cannot be done by accident. This is not a technical issue and we cannot further assist at Innovative Learning.