Student Guides and Documentation

Submitting an Assignment

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This guide will show students how to submit an assignment in a Blackboard course.

Locate Assignment in Course, Part 1

If an instructor added a new assignment to Blackboard, students Activity Stream will provide a direct link to the course or assignment.

Screenshot of activity stream

1. Select the link of the course and will open up that course.

2. Select the link of the assignment and will open up the assignment.

Locate the Assignment in a Course, Part 2

Screenshot of weekly content and whats new

1. In this example course, the assignments are located in Weekly content, select the Weekly Content link.

2. On the Course News Page, under What's New, you can select the Assignments tab to get a link to the assignment.

Click on Title of Assignment

Screenshot of assignments in weekly content

Click on the title of the assignment.

Upload Assignment

Clicking Write Submission allows users to type their assignment within Blackboard. Clicking Browse my computer allows users to attach a file from their computer. You May add comments for the instructor to view in the comment box. Hot Submit once done.

1. Clicking Write Submission allows users to type their assignment within Blackboard. Clicking Browse My Computer allows users to attach a file from their computer.

2. Add comments here for the instructor to view.

3. Click Submit.

If attaching a document, you must first save it to your computer for it to successfully upload. Verify your document is attached before clicking submit, as seen in this image:

Screenshot of preview upload assignemtn

Verify Submission

Verify submission screen appears

Verify that the assignment was submitted and then click OK.

Video assignments should not be sent as attachments, but rather linked or embedded from cloud-hosted sources using the "Write Submission" field. Please see the Video Assignments guide for more details and options.

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