blackboard inline grading

by Mr. Koby Corkery MD 10 min read

What is inline grading in Blackboard?

Inline Assignment Grading provides a way to grade assignments within your Blackboard course. Instead of needing to download student files for viewing, instructors are able to view these files “inline,” i.e. in the web browser, without the need for plug-ins or additional software.

How do I view inline comments in Blackboard?

Comment icons point out your instructor's comments throughout your paper. You can view all comments in the sidebar to the right of your document. Click on a comment to highlight its location in the document. If a rubric was used to grade your work, select the View Rubric icon to view details.

How do I use the grading tool in Blackboard?

0:071:18Inline Grading in the Original Course View - YouTubeYouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipSelect the drawing annotation mode icon to draw on the document. Select the point annotation modeMoreSelect the drawing annotation mode icon to draw on the document. Select the point annotation mode icon to type comments in any place on the document. To highlight text point and drag your cursor.

How do I grade an assignment in Blackboard?

Grade assignmentsAccess an assignment from the main menu or within an individual course.On the submission list, tap Ready to Grade.Select a student submission. ... Review the student's submitted content and files. ... Tap the information icon if you want to refer to the assignment instructions, rubric, and other details.More items...

How do I see my graded assignments on Blackboard?

Answer - You can get to the graded assignments through the Grade Centre. Click in a cell for a student for the assignment that is graded, then, select the action menu for the cell, then select View Grade Details.Sep 17, 2018

How do you see grade feedback on Blackboard?

In the classroom, click the Tools link in the course menu and select My Grades to view your assignment grades. If there is feedback on your assignment, a blue speech-balloon icon will be to the left of the recorded grade.Jun 23, 2021

How do you calculate your grade on blackboard?

Under the Select Columns section, click on a column or category to include in the weighted grade. Use the arrow to move the selected column or category to the Selected Columns area. Enter the percentage of the overall grade for the column or category. Next to Calculate as Running Total, select either Yes or No.Mar 30, 2020

How do I make grades available to students on Blackboard?

Log in to Blackboard. Select a course....My GradesConfirm Edit Mode is set to ON in the upper right.Click the plus + symbol at the top of the left menu.Select Tool Link.Type the name. For Type select My Grades from the pulldown menu.Click the checkbox Available to Users.Click Submit.

How do I change the grading scale on blackboard?

On the Grading Schemas page, click the Letter Action Link to access the contextual menu. Select Edit. On the Edit Grading Schema page, edit the Name, if desired, and add an optional Description. In the Grades Scored Between text box, enter the percentage range for the letter grade.

What is an overridden grade?

Override grades are grades you assign manually, for example, if you type in the grade pill in the gradebook. ... You can only override the final grade, not the grades for each attempt. An override grade takes precedence over all other grade entries, including attempts a student submits after you assign an override grade.

What do the grade colors mean on Blackboard?

> 90% = green. 89–80% = yellow/green. 79–70% = yellow. 69–60% = orange.

How do I grade assignments on Blackboard on iPad?

Using the Blackboard iPad App to Annotate Find your current courses and select the one for which you would like to grade assignment submissions. Select Grades under Course Materials. This will display a list of all assignments that need grading. Select the assignment you would like to grade.Aug 11, 2020

Topic Overview

  • Student work submitted through the assignment tool allows instructors to submit a grade, comments, and markup on some document types that are privately visible to the student or student group that made the submission. Instructors can also make grading notes visible only to themselves and those with a Teaching Assistant or Grader role in the course.
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Accessing Student Submissions

  • Grading can be accessed from the "Needs Grading" area or directly from the Grade Center. To do so from the Grade Center, click in the cell of the assignment you want to grade, and select the assignment by submission date. If multiple attempts were made, they will appear here in a list:
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Grading Interface

  • The right panel of the inline grading tool allow instructors to: 1. Input a grade value 2. Change between attempts if a student has been allowed to submit more than one per assignment 3. Give feedback visible to the submitting student (or group) 4. Attach files for a student 5. Add notes for grading reference 6. Access rubrics if you have applied them to the assignment If you do n
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Markup Tools

  • Beginning on June 3, 2020 the markup tools in Blackboard have been updated to Blackboard Annotate, which looks as outlined in orange in the picture below. Documentation on the Annotate interface is available from Blackboard. Markup previously created in the older tool provided by Box will be converted into the new Annotate format.
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Crocodoc Transition to New “Box View”

  • Blackboard’s current service for the implementation of inline grading is through the Crocodoc tool, and Box Inc. (who owns it) has decided to discontinue it. The end-of-life date for Crocodoc is January 15, 2018. As a result, Blackboard has updated their inline grading capability to leverage the Crocodoc replacement, “Box View”. Box View offers several improvements over Crocodoc, i…
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Transition Timing

  • During this time between December 29, 2017 and January 15, 2018, the Crocodoc service and ability to view previously annotated documents within a browser won’t be available but the rest of Blackboard will function properly. The document viewing capabilities are the only feature affected during the transition. After the transition, users won’t be able to change the existing an…
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Working with Annotations in New Box View

  • Instructors and roles with grading privileges…
    1. …must assign grades, before students can view annotations. 2. …can’t edit or remove existing Crocodoc annotations in New Box View as the annotations are “burned” into a PDF during migration. 3. …can add or edit New Box View annotations after a grade is assigned. However, wh…
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Make The Transition

  • We understand that may have come to rely on Crocodoc when they do inline grading in Blackboard. After we upgrade, the transition to the new Box View will be as seamless as possible. Crocodoc will not be available for a few minutes and then New Box View replaces Crocodoc in the affected course grading areas. *Comparison view of Crocodoc and New Box View annotations o…
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • After the end-of-life date for Crocodoc, what will happen to data stored in Crocodoc if an older Bl…
    While the Crocodoc service will technically reach end-of-life, the databases that contain student-submitted data and documents won’t be deleted or destroyed. Blackboard is working with Box to define a long-term strategy for the decommission of Crocodoc servers permanently. While we d…
  • After the end-of-life date for Crocodoc and during the migration, what will instructors see in a co…
    After the end-of-life date and during the migration, the Crocodoc service will display a “Service Unavailable” message to users. New Box View will completely replace the Crocodoc feature in Blackboard, with the same general user experience and interface elements. Users will see some …
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No More Downloading and Uploading

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The most useful aspect of this feature is the elimination of all the downloading and uploading that used to be required in previous iterations of Blackboard. We now have a single interface that students can use to submit their assignments, faculty can use to provide feedback and grade, and then students can access again to ge…
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Marking Up The Files

  • The assignment a student hands in can be a Word document, PDF, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation. Once a student uploads their document file, an instructor can mark it up from within the Blackboard interface using a combination of inline or text comments, freehand drawing, highlighting, strikeouts, and/or text entries. (See Rachel’s earlier postfor more details o…
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Rubrics

  • The kinds of classes I generally teach have not made extensive use of rubrics, but in larger undergraduate classes they can help organize the grading and communicate expectations more clearly to students. They are a pain in the neck to build and validate, but once you have a good rubric developed, tested, and applied, you can begin to reap the benefits. Rubrics can be importe…
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Multiple Submissions

  • This new feature makes it very easy to keep track of multiple submissions so that you can easily check to see if students have made corrections and followed suggestions that you make for them. Just clicking the buttons at the the top of the grading pane allow you to move through the draft quickly and efficiently.
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Finding Help

  • A nice video is available in the quick startseries if you’d like to get started using the inline grading tool. This is a good resource of how to use the various applications. For more information see the following link.
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