Marking an off-line assignment

You can use an off-line assignment to deliver marks or feedback on non-digital or multiple submissions.

Once you have set up your offline Blackboard assessment dropbox (it’s a standard Blackboard assignment dropbox with the setting ‘Collect submissions offline’ selected:image-20250404-140500.png) you can start adding marks and feedback straight away.

Instructions

  1. In Gradebook, select Markable items to see your list of assignments, select your off-line assignment dropbox.

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This opens up the ‘Marks' view of the assignment dropbox, which displays the list of students.

 

  1. First you need to create a submission entry for each student before you can assign them feedback and a mark.

Click on the student name …

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  1. This will open up the attempt window, enter a date if required and press Save.

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This opens up the student’s submission window.

  1. Here you can add feedback and mark as normal. You can enter text directly into the text box or record audio and video.

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To attach feedback in a file, click on the plus and select Attachment. Then navigate to the file

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  1. Remember to click Save Changes

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Then enter the student’s mark

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Then repeat for each student.

When you have marked all the students, you can post their marks (remember to make the dropbox visible for students).

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The students can then view their mark and feedback as normal.

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