Access and Grade Assignments

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In Brightspace, assignment submissions can be accessed in three ways:

On the Assignments page
On the Quick Eval page
On the Enter Grades page

Note: These instructions are for Brightspace assignments, Turnitin LTI assignments or other third-party tools would not display on the Assignments page or Quick Eval.

Accessing submissions through the Assignments page

In your course, select Assignments on the Course navbar.

On the Assignments page, click on the Assignment Name in blue.

A Title of a Brightspace assignment in blue outlined by a black box.

Note: You can also access the Submissions page by selecting the drop-down button to the right of the assignment name and select View Submissions.

On the Submissions page, you can view student submissions by User or by Submission.

Assignment Submission page displaying multiple setting buttons. The User Tab is highlighted using a black box.

If the student submitted an attachment, click on the Attachment Name to be brought to the grading page. You can also select Go to Evaluation if there is not a submission listed.

Specific student submission displayed with the file name and Go to Evaluation Link surrounded by a black box.

Accessing submissions through Quick Eval

Select Quick Eval on the Course navbar.

Select View by: Submissions. Select student’s name in blue.

Quick Eval page displaying specific student submissions under the Submission Tab.

Select the student’s file attachment to view submission.

A specific student's submission dispalying with the file name surrounded by a black box.

Note: Depending on the Submission Type chosen, this view could look different. For more information access Customize Submission Type.

Accessing submissions through Grades

Select More on the Course navbar. Select Grades from the drop-down menu.

Brightspace Course Navbar displaying links. The More link surrounded by a white box and displaying the drop-down menu to bring attention to Grades link.

On the Enter Grades page, scroll to the Grade Item for the assignment. Select the Unread File Submission icon.

Specific Grade item displayed on Enter Grades page showing the paper submission icon.

For more information on icons in Brightspace go to Glossary of Icons

Select the student’s file submission to view attachment.

Student submission page showing uploaded file.

Grading Submissions

On the Submission page the file will display, and annotation tools can be used to mark the paper.

Specific student submission displayed with the annotation tools highlighted by a black box.

View Annotations for more information about this setting.

The score for the assessment can be entered in the Overall Grade box. The Overall Feedback text editor allows for additional comments and has the same capabilities as the general Brightspace text editor.

Overall Grade box showing score entry and Overall Feedback text box.

Instructors can also upload additional documents, add links to existing activities, attach files from Google Drive and OneDrive and insert Audio or Video Feedback. Instructors can move through submissions by selecting the back-and-forth arrows in the top right corner. Once a score and feedback are entered, select Draft to save work but not release to students. Select Publish if the assignment grade is ready to release to the student.

Additional settings displaying Record Audio option and Record Video option.

Once the student’s submission is Published the button will change to Update. Published means that the student will see their score and be able to access their feedback for the assignment through the Assignment page and on the Grades page. If any further changes or feedback are added to the assignment, make sure to select Update to save those changes. Retract can be selected if you want the submission reverted to Draft mode. Once an assignment is retracted it will have to be published again for the student to see the grade and feedback.

Select Back to Submissions in the upper left to go back to the main Submission page for the assignment. Select the User arrows in the upper right to move through submissions.

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For more information and assistance, please email Office of Digital Learning - Learning Management System Support at LMS.faculty@jjay.cuny.edu