Blackboard Tip of the Week: Assignment Submission Notifications

 

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For faculty who use the Blackboard assignment tool, our most recent versions of Blackboard offer a welcome improvement on that tool. Now, when students successfully submit an assignment, they see a pink banner that assigns a Submission Confirmation Number to the assignment that they submitted:

Although the banner can’t be saved, it prompts students to copy and save their Submission Confirmation Number as proof that they successfully submitted their assignment. In addition, students get a detailed email receipt that also contains their Submission Confirmation Number:

For their part, faculty can also confirm that assignments have been successfully submitted. To do so, they select Submission Receipts from the Reports menu in their course Grade Center:

In the Submission Receipts window that opens, faculty have two options. If they want to view the receipts for all of the assignments that an individual student submitted, they select User Information from the Options menu on the right. Next, after selecting whether they want to search using the student’s User Name, First Name, Last Name, or Email address, they enter the student’s information and select Go:

Alternatively, if students email faculty a copy of their Submission Confirmation Number, faculty can select Confirmation Number from the Options menu, copy-paste the Submission Confirmation Number into the provided text-box, and then select Go:

Use the following link to download a printable version of this Bb tip of the week: Download the Tip

Use the following link to view previous Bb tips of the week: BBTOTW-Archive

As always, please feel free to contact the Distance Learning Office (629-7070 / DLHelp@hvcc.edu) if you have any questions about this, or if you would like training on this subject!

 

Published: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 12:20:49 +0000 by m.petersen