Attaching Multiple Documents to Assignment Submissions

To ensure that everyone receives a fair grade, based on reliable criteria, all assignment feedback is written directly onto the assignment sheets and general rubric. The objective is to highlight words in the published criteria, rather than write inconsistent feedback notes at the end of the assignment. That means, online students must attach three documents with each submission:

• The assignment description
• The general rubric
• The student's assignment

The following instructions are for students submitting the three required documents for a Case 1 assignment in an English 304 class. However, these Blackboard images are the same for any class because the procedure is the same for every class.

Purpose: Students must submit three documents to Blackboard with each assignment. This way, I can write feedback directly on the assignment.

Log in to Blackboard and locate the appropriate assignment. 1. Click the Case 1 Submission Tool link. The title of the link will differ in different classes.
Blackboard will load a screen where users can attach multiple documents. This image does not yet show any documents loaded. 2. Click the Browse My Computer button, located in the center of the page.
A dialog box will open for the personal computer. Users need to navigate their file structure to locate the appropriate files. 3. Select the assignment. 4. Click the Open button.
5. Click the Browse My Computer button, located in the center of the page. 6. Select the general rubric. 7. Click the Open button.
8. Click the Browse My Computer button, located in the center of the page. 9. Select the assignment description. 10. Click the Open button.
All three documents should be portrayed at the center of the page. 11. Click the Submit button to submit the assignment, with the necessary documents.

All instructions and documentation written by:

Dr. Jason Lawrence, M.S., Ph.D.

Theory and Practice of Professional Communication
Artificial Intelligence writers, Internal Documentation, and Emergent Texts
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Submitting Posts to Discussion Forums

Each week, students need to post to the discussion forums on Blackboard. Sometimes, I title those discussion forums in different ways to match the course goals. For instance, the pictured examples below refer to the discussion forums as "Weekly Iterations." Regardless of the name "Weekly Iterations" in the instructions below, the instructions are about submitting a post to the discussion forums.

Purpose: Students need to follow these instructions in order to submit discussion posts in the Blackboard LMS classroom.

All instructions and documentation written by:

Dr. Jason Lawrence, M.S., Ph.D.

Theory and Practice of Professional Communication
Artificial Intelligence writers, Internal Documentation, and Emergent Texts
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Opening Blackboard Discussion Word Processing Tools

The Blackboard LMS includes discussion forums. A student can write a post submission in Microsoft Word and then attach that Word document to a post. However, the teacher needs to download the document, open Microsoft Word, read the document in Word, and return to Blackboard to grade the post. A teacher must repeat that procedure every time a student posts a submission in an attachment.

Purpose:
Alternatively, students should write their submissions in the discussion forum interface, rather than attach a Word document. Blackboard does provided limited word processing to support formatting discussion posts. These instructions help students access the word processing tools that come in the Blackboard discussion forum interface.

1. Locate the discussion forum in Blackboard. 2. Click on the discussion forum link. 3. Click on Create Thread.
The natural state of discussion forums only reveals a single line of a few word processing tools. 4. Click the Show More button.
The result is three rows of word processing tools. These tools will be sufficient for most discussion forum submissions.

All instructions and documentation written by:

Dr. Jason Lawrence, M.S., Ph.D.

Theory and Practice of Professional Communication
Artificial Intelligence writers, Internal Documentation, and Emergent Texts
Visit my Official Blog or my Web Page.

Find a School: Southern Connecticut State University