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Key Features
- Add assignment instructions and content
- Control assignment visibility to students
- Apply assignment settings
Assignment Settings
If any students in your course have accommodation, they appear in the Assignment Settings section. You can set accommodations for students and make them exempt from certain course requirements, such as assignment due dates and time limits. To modify accommodations, go to the Roster and open a student’s menu. You can also access it from the Submission page or gradebook.
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On the right-hand side of the New Assignment page, under Assignment Settings, you can view the settings selected for your assignment. To choose and apply different settings, select the Settings icon (gear) button to open a new panel.
The section Details & Information provides options for assignment submission.
- Due date. Due dates appear on the calendar and in the activity stream. Late submissions appear with a Late label in the course gradebook. You can prohibit students from submitting work after the due date.
- Prohibit late submissions. Enforce a hard deadline and prevent a late submission. In-progress and saved attempts will auto-submit at the due date. Students will receive a submission receipt email.
- If students have submitted attempts, you cannot change the due date to a date in the past. If the due date has passed, you can’t select the Prohibit late submission setting.
- Allow class conversations. 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.
- Collect submissions offline. This will create an assignment like normal, but students will not be able to submit anything online. This method will allow you to collect the offline submissions and still grade them through Blackboard Ultra's gradebook.
Grading & Submissions
Grading & Submissions provides options for assignment type and grading criteria.
Grade category. You can change the assignment’s grade category to be part of one of the custom gradebook categories you set up in your course. You can create new categories to customize how coursework is grouped in your course. Custom categories can be useful when you set up the overall grade.
Attempt allowed. 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.
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Grade using. From the Grade using menu, select an existing grading schema such as Points. You can change the grading schema at any time, and the change will appear to students and in your gradebook.
Maximum points. Add a number value between 0 and 99,999 for your assignment. If you leave this field blank, the number will default to 100.
Enable Assessment grade. Automatically post a student’s grade once grading is completed. Turn the setting off if you want to manually control grade publication.
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