You can use the Assignments tool to create and edit assignments, see users’ submission times, view submissions on the Evaluate Submission page, associate assignments to rubrics and competencies, and return submissions with grades and feedback.
For assignments that included file submissions, you can download the submissions to your computer for review offline.
In the Submissions area for file and text submissions, you can view users' submissions and submission dates, eliminating the need to collect assignments and making it easy to track when files were submitted.
You can create categories to group and organize assignments. You can also restrict access to assignments by date and time, group membership, or special access permissions.
You can manage exemptions by launching the Manage Exemptions page from the following locations in Assignments:
Visual tour of the Assignments tool
Figure: Overview of the Assignments tool.
When instructors navigate to Assignments, they will see all the assignments created within their course with options for creating new assignments and editing and evaluating previous ones.
- New Assignment: Create a new assignment.
- Edit Categories: Create or manage categories for your assignments. Categories are customizable and can be organized to designate work that corresponds to specific modules in your course.
- More Actions: Provides additional options for Assignments:
- Preview: View a preview of any assignment.
- Reorder: Change the order and display of your assignments.
- Event Log: View a log of your created, deleted, and restored assignments.
- Make Visible to Users: Let learners view an assignment.
- Hide from Users: Make an assignment invisible for learners.
- Delete: Delete an assignment.
- Bulk Edit: Edit one or more assignments all at once.
View an assignment
- From the Assignments tool, click on the assignment you want to submit to.
Figure: The Assignments tool showing a list of assignments.
Make a Text submission
- Type your assignment directly in the Comments field.
- When you finish your written response, click Submit.
Figure: The Submit Assignment page with the Comments section and Submit option highlighted.
Make a File submission
- To browse for the file you want to submit, click Add a File. You can attach files from your local computer or storage device, a personal locker, a group locker, or Brightspace Portfolio.
- Enter any comments you want to submit with the file.
- Click Submit.
Figure: The Submit Assignment page with the Add a File and Submit options highlighted.
Add an audio or video submission
- Click Record Audio or Record Video.
Note: Allow your browser to access your microphone and webcam.
Figure: The Submit Assignment page with the Record Audio and Record Video options highlighted.
- To upload an audio or video file from your device, click Upload File > Choose File.
Figure: The Media Capture dialog with the Upload File and Choose File options highlighted.
- Click Add.
Figure: The Media Capture dialog with the Add option highlighted.
- Enter a Title, Description, and Audio Language for your recording or file. Click the Automatically generate captions from audio checkbox to enable closed captioning for your file.
- Click Add.
Figure: The Media Capture dialog showing the Title, Description, and Audio Language fields with the Add option highlighted.
- Enter any comments you want to submit with the recording or file.
- Click Submit.
Figure: The Submit Assignment page with an audio-video file attached.
Note:
- If you would like to edit or delete an assignment after submitting it, contact your instructor.
- If your instructor enabled e-rater ® Grammar feedback, to view grammar feedback on your assignment, click the View e-rater® grammar feedback link in the Inline Feedback column on the Submission History page. If your assignment allows multiple submissions, you can incorporate any grammar feedback and resubmit your assignment.
- If the assignment is Turnitin enabled, the file you submitted is pre-validated at the time of submission to ensure it is within the Turnitin file type and size requirements.
- If Online Grading or Similarity Report is enabled, you can view your Submission ID in your Submission History page.
- Depending on your course settings, you may be able to view any rubrics that are used to evaluate your work directly on the submission page.
What file types are supported in Assignments?
The following file formats are supported for Assignment submissions:
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File Type
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Notes
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HTM, HTML, MHT, MHTML
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Web document
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Brightspace strips the <title> tag and text within the tag from user created web documents
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RTF, PPT, PPS, PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPTX, XML, XLS, TXT, WPD
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Text document
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JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TIFF
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Image
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SWF, MPG, MPEG, RM, MP3, MP4, M4V, M4A, AVI, WAV, RAM, ASF, MOV, RA
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Media
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The extensions MP4, M4V, and M4A allow users to drag audio and visual files.
Note: Media files cannot be directly played in the Assignments document viewer; they must be downloaded and played using a media player.
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