3. Assessing Learners
  4. Assignments

Creating Assignments

You can create a Blackboard Assignment submission link in several course areas including content areas, learning modules, lesson plans and folders.

Students access the submission link and can upload a video, type a submission and attach files. Marks and feedback can be added for each student individually.

  1. Navigate to the page on your Blackboard course where you’d like the link to appear. If your course is using the Aston Blackboard Template, this will be The Assessment Submission area.
  2. On the action bar, go to Assessments and then click Assignment. This opens up the Create Assignment page.
  3. ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION
    Enter a name for the assignment. This will be what the student sees and will also be the name of the Grade Centre column for this assignment.
  4. Enter any instructions you need displayed on screen when the student submits work.
  5. If this is a video submission continue onto the next step. If this is not a video assignment, jump to the next appropriate step.
  6. (If you only see one row of icons in the toolbar, click the ellipses … icon at the right) Click the Additional content icon to open the pop-up menu.
  7. From the list select Panopto Student Submission. This will add a list of instructions the student needs to follow. More importantly, it will add a link to allow the student to set up their video library.
  8. You have now added the link to Panopto My Folder and the instructions.
    You can edit any of the added text, but you must leave the Panopto video library link present.
  9. This course must be provisioned with Panopto before the Panopto Student Submission Tool can be used with it. Please contact your administrator or instructor.If you see this message, you need to provision the course with Panopto. You can finish working on your submission link and then come and add in the Panopto submission tool once you have provisioned the course.
  10. ASSIGNMENT FILES
    If you have any supporting files for this assignment:

    • If they are on your computer, attach them by clicking Browse My Computer
    • If the file has already been uploaded to this course, click Browse Course
  11. DUE DATE
    Set a due date and time for the assignment.
  12. MARKING
    GradingSet how many points this assignment is worth. If you want to use a rubric with this assignment, you can create a new/associate an existing one here.
  13. SUBMISSION DETAILS 
    Tick the box if this is a group assignment. The group selector will then open and you can move across the groups that are completing this assignment.
  14. MARKING OPTIONS
    Choose whether this assignment is to be marked anonymously.
  15. DISPLAY OF GRADES
    You can to hide grades/feedback from students (eg so you can mark all of the submissions and release them in one go).
    Untick Show to students in My Grades
    IMPORTANT This will only hide the individual column from a student’s view. The grade will still be included in calculated columns such as “Total”. To hide it from Calculated Columns; untick Include in Grade Center grading calculations
  16. AVAILABILITYAvailabilityIf you’d like to make the assignment unavailable to students, or to set when it will display after/until, enter your choices here
  1. Click Submit