When to Use?
You can create assignments alongside other content. This enables students to access their work next to the content they need, right when they need it.
When you create an assignment, you can:
- add assignment instructions and content
- control assignment visibility to students
- apply assignment settings
Watch Assignments Overview video
Procedure
Below are links to the articles. Please click the links to access the content.
Assessment Settings
Blackboard has many options for how to customize assessments. To access settings for tests, assignments, and forms select Settings on the new assessment’s page.
Create Assignments
This article covers:
- Add an assignment
- Add assignment instructions and content
- Assignment Visibility
- Auto-generate assignment prompts
- Assignments and the activity stream
- Watch a video about creating assignments
Manage Assignments
You can make changes to existing assignments and change where they appear on your Course Content page. Be aware that if you change an existing assignment that students can access, some students may have started their submissions. You can't change the grading schema if you've already started grading.
This article covers:
- Edit or reorder assignments
- Delete assignments
Group Assignments
You create a group assignment nearly the same way you create assignments for students to complete individually. Gradebook items are created automatically.
This article covers:
- About group assignments
- Before assigning group work
- Group assignments appear on the Course Content page
- Watch a video about group assignments
Best Practices for Group Assignments
This article covers:
- Peer assessment advantages
- Rubrics and progress reports
Create Groups
This article covers:
- Custom-made groups
- Randomly assigned groups
- Self-enrollment groups
- Reuse groups
Manage Groups
After you create a group assignment, you can add or delete individual groups and manage student membership.
This article covers:
- Manage individual groups
- Add and delete groups
- Manage student membership
Create and Assign Group Assignments
Important: at this time, you can’t create a group assignment with multiple attempts, a time limit, hidden names, or with parallel grading.
Student View of Group Assignments
This article covers:
- Students in groups
- Move to another group
- Group assignment submission
Formative Assessments
Formative assessments are an essential component of the teaching and learning process. They inform and shape instruction, guide learning, and support student progress.
This article covers:
- Formative label
- Formative filter in the gradebook
Peer Review for Qualitative Peer Assessments
Peer assessment is a common resource that allows students to review their peers’ work through criteria-based evaluation.
This article covers:
- Why use Qualitative Peer Assessments?
- Watch a video about Peer Assessments
- Question and criteria examples
- Create a Peer Review Assessment
- Qualitative Peer Assessment timeline
- Submission period
- Distribution and randomization of submissions to peers
- The start of the peer review period
- Late submissions and reviews
- Submission tracking and status review
- Grading
- Useful functionalities
- Batch edit
- Submission linking
- Calendar links
- Peer review assignments for disabled students and deleted attempts
SafeAssign
SafeAssign compares submitted assignments against a set of academic papers to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works.
See also:
SafeAssign FAQs
SafeAssign in Your Course
DirectSubmit
Grade with SafeAssign
SafeAssign Originality Report
SafeAssign Supported File Types
Accessibility in SafeAssign
Language Support
Miscellaneous Articles
Assign a Unique Individual Grade in a Group Assignment
This article shows instructors how to assign an individual grade within a Group Assignment.
Attempt Logs for Assignments and Tests
This article explains how to find and use attempt logs for assessments and tests.