{"id":1596,"date":"2013-02-21T15:54:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2013-02-21T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:54:15","slug":"bb-tip-69-simplify-assignment-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-69-simplify-assignment-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Bb Tip #69: Simplify Assignment Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assignment Tool is an efficient way to manage and collect your student's individual and group assignments digitally. Blackboard's Assignment Tool allows faculty to create a secure location for students to submit class assignments. Faculty use the Grade Center to monitor the submission process, to view and\/or download submitted work, to compose and send confidential feedback to students and to grade the assignment. Faculty can download all of a particular assignment\u2019s student submitted files in a single zip file. In the download zip file, each student submitted file will be renamed automatically to include the assignment\u2019s name, the student\u2019s username, as well as the filename the student originally submitted. <\/p>\n<p>A number of options are available when creating an assignment using the Assignment Tool:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assignment Files - allows faculty to attach supplemental information<\/li>\n<li>Assignment Availability - allows faculty to create assignments in advance<\/li>\n<li>Assignment Submissions (attempts) \u2013 allows for multiple or unlimited submissions<\/li>\n<li>Date and Time Restrictions - allows faculty to decide when students can access the assignment<\/li>\n<li>Individual or Group Assignments \u2013 allows faculty to choose who has access to assignment<\/li>\n<li>Tracking Statistics - track the number of views and by whom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use the Assignment Tool to help you set and manage deadlines, unclutter your inbox, and save trees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more information?<\/strong><br \/>\nStep-by-step instructions are available for faculty [<a title=\"Get Started with Assignments\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/Getting_Started_with_Assignments1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>].<br \/>\nStep-by-step instructions are available to show students how to submit assignments [<a title=\"Submit Assignments\" href=\"http:\/\/ondemand.blackboard.com\/r91\/movies\/bb91_student_submit_assignment.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Video<\/a>].<br \/>\nExplore Blackboard's On Demand Learning Center [<a title=\"On Demand\" href=\"http:\/\/ondemand.blackboard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HTML<\/a>].<br \/>\nBlackboard How-To documents [<a title=\"Bb How-to\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/blackboard-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\">HTML<\/a>]<br \/>\nVisit the <a title=\"Bb FAQs\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/blackboard-faq\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackboard FAQs<\/a> for additional blackboard information<br \/>\nor <a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/mail\/?to=31\">email<\/a> or call Janice Florent: (504) 520-7418<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assignment Tool is an efficient way to manage and collect your student's individual and group assignments digitally. Blackboard's Assignment Tool allows faculty to create a secure location for students to submit class assignments. Faculty use the Grade Center to monitor the submission process, to view and\/or download submitted work, to compose and send confidential <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-69-simplify-assignment-collection\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Bb Tip #69: Simplify Assignment Collection\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-1596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blackboard","7":"tag-assignments","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-pK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1102,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-48-wheres-the-digital-dropbox\/","url_meta":{"origin":1596,"position":0},"title":"Bb Tip #48: Where&#8217;s the Digital Dropbox?","author":"Janice Florent","date":"September 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The digital dropbox is not available in Blackboard Learn version 9.1. 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