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WebCT
Faculty Tip Sheets
Assignments - Student Submissions
The Assignments tool also allows you to view submissions, download individual student assignments, download multiple assignments, assign a grade to an assignment, and reset student submissions. You can also return the graded assignment to the student with attached comments. To view an interactive Flash demo for downloading individual submitted assignment files, click here. To view an interactive Flash demo for downloading multiple assignment files, click here. If you do not have Flash on your computer, download it from Macromedia's download site.
Grading assignments involves four steps. Steps 2 and 4 occur outside of WebCT, thus are not described in the steps below.
- Download the assignments from WebCT to your computer.
- Open them on your desktop.
- Print them out for reviewing and grading, or review them on-screen.
- Assign a grade and enter comments about the assignment in WebCT.
To view student submissions:
- From Assignments, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- From the assignment list, click Submissions for the assignment that you want to view. The Submissions screen appears.
- Under Organize: Submissions, in the text box, enter the number of records that you want to display at a time.
- Click Update. The Submissions screen refreshes and the student list is updated.
You can easily navigate through the pages of student records by using the following techniques:
- To navigate between the student list pages, click the left arrow (previous page) or the right arrow (next page) above the class list.
- To go to a specific part of the list, from the Page drop-down list, select the range of records you want to view.
- To view all the records on one screen without resetting the records displayed per page, from the Page drop-down list, select All.
To download an assignment:
- From Assignments, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- From the list of assignments, click Submissions for the assignment that you want to download. The Submissions screen appears.
- In the Status column, click Not Graded for the student whose assignment you want to download. The Grade Assignment screen appears.
- Under Student files, in the table, click the file that you want to download. The Assignment Dropbox: View Files window appears.
- Select the file and click Download. Your browser's file download screen appears. Follow the on-screen instructions to save the file to your computer. Note: In order to view the assignment, you must have the software that was used to create the assignment. If you do not, you need a program that can convert the file to a format you can use.
- When the download is complete, click Done. The Grade Assignment screen appears.
To assign a grade:
- From Assignments, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- From the list of assignments, click Submissions for the assignment for which you want to enter a grade. The Submissions screen appears.
- In the Status column, click Not Graded for the student whose assignment you want to grade. The Grade Assignment screen appears. Note: If you had allowed late submissions for an assignment, the Date column would contain a 'Late' notice for any student who had submitted an assignment after the original Due date, but prior to the final Cutoff date.
- In the Grade text box, enter a grade. Note: A 'Late' notice would appear here as well, reminding you to consider this in your marking.
- To provide feedback on the assignment, in the Comments text box, enter your comments.
- Click Grade. The Submissions screen appears with the Status updated to Graded.
To download multiple assignments:
- From Assignments, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- From the list of assignments, click Submissions for the assignment for which you want to enter a grade. The Submissions screen appears.
- Select the files to download:
- To select all student assignments, in the leftmost column of the table, select the check box next to Personal Information.
- To select individual student assignments, in the leftmost column of the table, select the check box for each student.
- Under Options, click Download. Your browser's file download screen appears. Save the files to your computer.
- Click Update to refresh your screen.
- Assign a grade to the downloaded assignments.
To return a graded assignment:
You can upload and return a graded assignment to a student. Important: The assignment must be submitted, downloaded, and graded before you can upload and return it to a student.
- From Assignments, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- From the assignment list, click Submissions for the assignment that you want to return. The Submissions screen appears.
- In the Status column, click Graded for the student whose assignment you want to return. The Grade Assignment screen appears.
- Under Graded files, click Upload file. The Upload Graded File screen appears. Warning: Uploading a graded assignment automatically returns the assignment to the student who submitted it.
- Next to the Filename text box, click Browse. Your computer's file browser appears. Select the file. The path and filename of the selected file appear in the text box.
- Click Upload. The Grade Assignment screen refreshes to show the newly uploaded and returned assignment. You will not receive a message confirming the return of a student assignment.
To reset student submissions:
Use reset to delete submitted assignments and grades for selected students. Warning: Taking this action will also erase a student's grade from his or her records in the Manage Students files.
- From Assignments, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- From the list of assignments, click Submissions for the assignment that you want to remove. The Submissions screen appears.
- To delete a student's submitted assignments and grades, in the leftmost column, select the check box for the student.
- Under Options, click Reset. A warning message appears.
- Click OK. A final warning message appears.
- Click OK. The Status of the selected student's assignments is changed to Not submitted.
To delete an assignment:
Warning: Deleting an assignment removes the assignment and all related student submissions from your course. However, the assignment grades are retained in the Manage Students files.
- From Assignments, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- From the assignment list, select the assignment that you want to delete.
- Under Options: Assignment, click Delete. A warning message appears.
- Click OK. A final warning message appears.
- Click OK. The updated Assignments screen appears.
To release the assignment column:
You can release the assignment column if you want students to see their assignment grade in My Grades. Note: You must also add the My Grades tool to your course. Note: You can also control the release of this column from Manage Students.
- From Assignments, click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
- From the assignment list, click the assignment you want to release to students. The Assignment screen appears.
- Under Options, click Edit assignment settings. The Assignment Settings screen appears.
- Under Results, under Release Column, select whether or not to release the assignment column to students.
- Click Update. The assignment settings are updated.
To help your students get started:
Your student's view of assignments varies from the course designer view in a number of ways. For example, to upload completed assignment files, students must navigate through a series of screens that you, as a course designer, do not see. The following set of instructions is written with the student in mind.
Note: Students use their own software applications to complete assignments. When naming an assignment file, they must use single-word file names or insert an underscore between words. WebCT does not recognize file names with spaces, or characters that are not numbers or letters.
Submitting an assignment involves two steps:
- upload the file from your computer to WebCT
- submit the file for marking.
- From Assignments, click the assignment that you want to submit. The Assignment screen appears.
- To upload the file, under Student files, click Upload file. The Upload File for Assignment screen appears.
- To locate the file, click Browse to open your computer's file browser.
- Select the file. The Upload File for Assignment screen reappears, with the path and filename displayed in the Filename text box.
- Click Upload. The Assignment screen appears and the uploaded file is added to the Student files table.
- To submit the completed assignment, under Submit Assignment, click Submit assignment. The Submit Assignment screen appears. Note: All assignments in the Student files table will be submitted. Depending on administrator settings, you may be able to receive email notification that your assignment was submitted successfully. If applicable, enter your email address in the text box.
- Click Submit assignment. A confirmation screen appears.
- Click OK. The Assignments screen reappears, with Submitted displayed in the Status column. When the assignment has been graded, Submitted changes to Graded and your grade appears in the Grade column. Click Graded to view your instructor's comments about your work.
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