When marking Blackboard assignments in Ultra, there are two main ways to add feedback for your students. You can add general feedback as a summary in the sidebar or you can assignments directly within the browser, you can use Blackboard Annotate (BB Annotate) to add inline comments and custom customise feedback in the assignment file that was submitted.
📘 Instructions
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Blackboard Annotate is supported on current versions of Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Safari. |
You can use Bb Annotate for inline grading in your courses. Bb Annotate offers a more robust feature set to provide tailored feedback to students. Features include a sidebar summary view, freehand drawing tools, various colour selections, and much more.
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Bb Annotate grading workflow
On the Assignment Submission page, supported file types open in the browser. You can view and annotate these document types in the browser:
Microsoft® Word (DOC, DOCX), PowerPoint®(PPT, PPTX), Excel®(XLS, XLSX)
OpenOffice® Documents (ODS, ODT, ODP)
Digital Images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIF, TIFF, TGA, BMP, HEIC)
Source code (Java, PY, C, CPP, etc)
Medical Images (DICOM, DICM, DCM)
PDF
PSD
RTF
TXT
WPD
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From within a module, you can access assignment submissions through Gradebook or via individual Assignment dropboxes. You can also see all of your students' submissions that need marked on the global Marks page (accessed from the main Blackboard menu).
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📘 Instructions
When you open your student’s submission in your browser, you can use Bb Annotate to add feedback within the assignment file itself (inline annotation).
Click on the student assignment to open the Assignment Submission page.
You can now view and annotate the document in the browser.
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You cannot use the inline annotation in Panopto video assignments. |
Annotation sessions expire after one hour. You'll receive a warning message before your session expires. Your completed annotations, feedback, and files are saved on the page. When you return, you can resume working.
Animated gifs display only the first frame in the pdf viewer for annotation purposes. Download the submission to view the animated gif.
Original formatting and embedded images are preserved. If a student submitted an unsupported file, you're prompted to download it. Assignment submissions created through the editor aren't compatible with inline grading.
Starting on Dec 10, 2020: if the submitted file (not converted) is greater than 300MB, processing will stop, in order guarantee no data loss and good performance.
Bb Annotate is supported on current versions of Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Safari.
As part of the responsive design, the menu display changes based on the screen size. On medium and small screens, the Document View settings display the page number you're viewing. Annotation tools are stacked under the View Annotation Tools icon. On small screens, the Content Library is hidden.
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Check out Assignment inline grading for a complete list of supported file types. |
A document view toolbar is displayed at the top of the main window for you to select how you wish to add feedback directly onto the assignment submission. Other features available include a sidebar summary view, for you to provide overall text, video or audio feedback, and a rubric feedback section that displays the rubric grading criteria if one is being used.
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Document View Settings
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A. Sidebar: View Thumbnail, Outline, or Annotation views of the submission.
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D. Zoom: Zoom in and out of the submission.
E. Fit: Adjust Adjust the view to fit the page, fit the width, or select the best fit.
Annotations
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Annotation sessions expire after one hour. You'll receive a warning message before your session expires. |
There is a variety of tools to choose from, with the most commonly used being text and quicknotes (reusable comments). You can also highlight text and give feedback as a comment that appears in a panel next to the submission.
To view the tool properties simply select the tool. Let’s take a look at the possibilities available.
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F. Drawing, Brush, and Eraser: Draw freehand on the submission with various colors, thickness, and opacity. Select the eraser to remove annotations. You can erase parts of a freehand drawing with the eraser or select the Delete icon to delete the whole drawing.
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J. Comment: Provide feedback in comments. Your comments appear in a panel next to the submission. *Students can access the annotated files but won't be able to add annotations in their submissions
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Always click Save when you have typed your comment to ensure it is recorded. |
K. Print: Print the submission with the annotations.
L. Download: Download the submission with the annotations
*A known issue with some browsers' built-in PDF viewer may not display all your annotations. Please view annotated PDFs in a native PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat.
M. Search: Search the submission for specific text.
N. Content Library: Create a bank of reusable comments. You can add, edit, delete, and search comments in the library. You can also add a comment directly to the submission page from the menu. Select the plus sign to add a new comment to the Content Library. You can Place comment, Copy to Clipboard, Edit, or Delete content from the library. Type keywords or phrases to search for saved comments.
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Highlighter: Select specific portions of the submission to highlight. As you highlight text on the submission, an additional menu opens. You can highlight, strikethrough, underline, squiggle, or comment on the highlighted section.
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When you have finished adding feedback, your annotations, text and other files are saved on the page.
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You can return to review or continue to add more if you wish.
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Some browsers' built-in PDF viewer may not display all your annotations. Please view annotated PDFs in a native PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat. |