{"id":591,"date":"2010-02-09T11:14:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=591"},"modified":"2010-02-09T11:14:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:14:01","slug":"bb-tip-22-assignment-vs-digital-drop-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-22-assignment-vs-digital-drop-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Bb Tip #22: Assignment vs. Digital Drop Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Drop Box provides a shared area where students and instructors can store and exchange files. The Assignment feature integrates with the Grade Center and organizes assignments so they are easier to access and grade than those that are submitted via email or the Digital Drop Box.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty should consider using the Digital Drop Box when file exchange is needed between the instructor and one student, a select group of students, or when a project will not be graded. On the other hand, an Assignment may be more effective when a grade will be assigned to student work and the graded project\/assignment requires submission of a document.<\/p>\n<p>These scenarios [<a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/Assignments_vs_Drop_Box.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] present several different examples of how the Digital Drop Box and Assignments may be used separately or together to collect student work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more information?<\/strong><br \/>\nStep-by-step instructions are available for using the<br \/>\nDigital Drop Box [<a title=\"Digital Drop Box\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/Using_Drop_Box.pdf\" target=\"_self\">PDF<\/a>], creating Assignments [<a title=\"Create Assignment\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/Assignments-Creating.pdf\" target=\"_self\">PDF<\/a>],<br \/>\nand viewing\/grading Assignments [<a title=\"View\/Grade Assignment\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/GC-Viewing_Grading_Assignments.pdf\" target=\"_self\">PDF<\/a>].<br \/>\nVisit the <a title=\"Bb FAQs\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/blackboard-faq\/\" target=\"_self\">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 Digital Drop Box provides a shared area where students and instructors can store and exchange files. The Assignment feature integrates with the Grade Center and organizes assignments so they are easier to access and grade than those that are submitted via email or the Digital Drop Box. Faculty should consider using the Digital Drop <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-22-assignment-vs-digital-drop-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Bb Tip #22: Assignment vs. Digital Drop Box\"<\/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":[28,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blackboard","7":"tag-assignments","8":"tag-digital-drop-box","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-9x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1102,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-48-wheres-the-digital-dropbox\/","url_meta":{"origin":591,"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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