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Blackboard Assignment Grade Center Column Created

When an instructor creates a Blackboard assignment, a column for that assignment will be automatically created in the Grade Center.  If you want to set an exemption or exception for a student for an assignment, you can find more information here.

Select the plus sign to open the menu and make a selection. You can choose a question type, add a question pool, or reuse questions and content from existing assessments. You can add files and text, such as instructions for the assignment.

Students can't see an assignment until you choose to show it. You can create all of your content ahead of time and decide what you want your students to see based on your course schedule. You can also set availability conditions based on date, time and student performance on other items in the course gradebook.  On the Course Content page, students can see when the assignment will become available.

Select the Settings iconImage Removed,  to open the panel where you can set the the assignment's details and information.  i.e., due date, grade, number of student attempts and attach a rubric.

What if your students have questions about an assignment? You can allow conversations within an assignment, and anyone can contribute.  As the conversation develops, it appears only with the relevant assignment.

You can randomize questions and their answers to support practice/drilling activities and help students avoid academic dishonesty. You can use one or both settings so assignments appear differently for each student.

Questions appear in order to you but are randomized for students. To prevent confusion, don't add numbers to reference other questions within the assignment.

You can only randomize answers for Matching and Multiple Choice questions. If you want to randomize answers for True/False questions, use the Multiple Choice question type with True and False answer choices. You can't randomize questions in an assignment with text blocks or attachments.

You can let your students submit more than one attempt at an assignment.  When you allow multiple attempts, you can also choose how the final grade is calculated.

When you create an assignment without questions, you can enable anonymous grading so the student name is hidden while you grade.  You may only add text and files to anonymously graded assignments.

Select the Show correct answers check box to allow students to see the correct answers to automatically scored questions after they submit.  If you don't add questions to your assignment, select the check box for Show correct answers during creation.

In the UCV, you can customize when feedback is to be automatically released to students using the Automated Question Feedback option.  Note that you can only use this option once a question has been added to the assignment.

You can issue an access code to control when a student or group submits an assignment.  At this time, access codes are generated randomly by the system and you can't customize the access codes.

You can enable parallel grading and assign graders when you create an assignment. You can enable parallel grading after students have made a submission.  The system randomly assigns graders you choose so each student has two graders for the assignment assuring that the grading workload is distributed evenly among the graders. Graders can only open the submissions for the students assigned to them.

You can align an assignment to one or multiple goals. You and your institution can use goals to measure student achievement across programs and curriculum. You can also align individual questions to goals.

The description appears under the assignment title on the Course Content page.  The description is often instructions or information that you want the students to have to complete the assignment.