The Evaluate Submission page enables you to evaluate and leave feedback on assignment submissions. It contains two main sections: the Submissions List panel and the Evaluation panel. Use the Evaluation panel to grade and provide comments on submissions. On paper submissions and observed in person assignments display only the Evaluation panel because no submissions are made in Brightspace.
Feedback from Assignments grade items is synchronized with the grade book when the evaluator clicks Update. This ensures that published feedback is automatically saved to the grade book.
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Note: The grade book does not support drafts, so only published feedback is updated and synced from Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes to the grade book. |
Evaluate assignment submissions
When evaluating assignment submissions, the bulk feedback feature allows you to provide feedback to multiple learners directly within the Assignments submission pages.
- Add and save bulk feedback as a draft if no previous feedback exists.
- Update existing drafts or published evaluations for multiple learners at once.
- Apply feedback selectively or to all learners.
- Receive a warning when saving an empty Feedback dialog as bulk feedback.
- You can publish feedback immediately or save feedback as a draft and release it later. You can also retract published feedback to provide an update to past evaluations.
Assignment submissions include status indicators that show the state of the evaluation.
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Note: You cannot publish or save a draft if the Overall Feedback field exceeds 300,000 characters. If the field exceeds the limit or the Grade field contains an invalid grade, a dialog appears stating: "There are one or more errors in the information entered." |
Download and evaluate assignment submission files
If you download user submissions and leave feedback within the files, you can upload them back to the appropriate assignment so they appear as attachments to each user's submission evaluation. Do not rename the downloaded files after entering feedback.
- Navigate to Assignments.
- Click the Actions drop-down menu and select View Submissions.
- Select submissions and click Download.
- Evaluate the files offline and save your changes.
- Zip the updated files.
- On the Submissions page, click Add Feedback Files and upload the .zip file.
- Select users and click Publish Feedback or click Publish All Feedback.
- If you leave feedback in Turnitin, the feedback icon appears in the Turnitin Online Grading column.
Evaluate video submissions
- Navigate to Assignments.
- Select an assignment and click View Submissions.
- Select a video submission and click Download.
- Click the video file name to open the evaluation page.
- Enter the Overall Grade and Overall Feedback.
- Click Publish.
If the assignment is linked to a grade item, the Overall Grade is automatically added to the grade book.
Evaluate using annotations
If annotations are enabled, you can mark up submissions using highlighting, drawing tools, shapes, and comments directly from the Evaluate Submission page.
- Navigate to Assignments.
- Open an assignment and select a submission.
- Use the annotation toolbar to mark up the submission.
- Click Download to download the original or annotated file.
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Tip: Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+Z (Undo), Ctrl+Shift+Z (Redo). On macOS, use Command+Z and Command+Shift+Z. |
Manage evaluation status
If a learner unenrolls and later re-enrolls in a course, restoration of evaluation depends on publication status and duration of unenrollment.
- Published evaluations are restored if the learner re-enrolls within 30 days.
- Ready for review evaluations are not restored.
- Evaluations are permanently removed after 30 days due to system cleanup.
Supported file types for annotating submissions
- .doc
- .docx
- .rtf
- .odt
- .ppt
- .pptx
- .xls
- .xlsx
- .txt
- .jpg
- .jpeg
- .png
- .tif
- .tiff
- .gif (first frame only after conversion)
- .pdf