Assignments

FirstClass Teaching & Learning Migration

You may have used a FirstClass conference as a way for your students to submit and comment on assignments. 

Blackboard can achieve the same results for you by creating a new Discussion Board Forum, and indicating that you wish to "Allow file attachments" as shown:

My Course -> Discussion Board -> Add Forum

Another method that students may submit assignments to you is by personally sending you an email with the file attached.  You can now use Blackboard to manage the task of receiving digital assignments (Word document, Powerpoint, etc.)

The Assignment Tool

The Assignment tool is effective when you will be assigning grades to student work. This process usually requires the submission of one or more documents.  Post a document/s with an assignment, retrieve the completed assignment from a student, grade that assignment in the GradeCenter and write feedback.

You can create add a new Assignment in any of your content areas, but by default Blackboard creates one called "Assignments".

My Course -> Control Panel -> Assignments -> Add Assignment

The NYU website has a great information page on how to use the Assignment tool and how it integrates it with the Grade Center.

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