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Blackboard Assignment – Exempt Marks

When using an assignment with limited attempts it may be necessary to ignore a student’s attempt due to wrong work submitted or exceptional circumstances. This then does not count towards any marks and allows them to submit further work. You may also need to Exempt an entire assignment in the Gradebook.

Exempt individual student attempt
Exempt whole assignment for individual student

Exempt individual student attempt

When marking a student submission or asked to exclude it ,

  • go to the Attempt
  • to exclude attempt, click the three dot menu
  • choose Exclude Attempt.

The attempt will now be excluded from the Needs Marking workflow, and will not influence any final marks.

Showing points one and two, the attempt and three dot menu exclude mark option
Showing the Excluded wording next to the mark box in a submission.

Exempt whole assignment for a student via Gradebook

To exempt an assignment entirely for the student from the Gradebook

  • go to the Gradebook,
  • open students tab and select the student.
  • In the Marks tab, the list of assignments for the student will open . Click the three dot menu on the appropriate assignment and select “Add or edit exemptions”.
  • Tick the “Exempt mark” check box, and click “Save”

This will indicate the mark is exempt in the Marks Column and grey out the mark. Please see screenshots below for assistance.

Highlighting a student in the list of students option in the Gradebook.
Showing the three dot menu options in the student Marks tab and Add or edit exemptions.
Exempt mark tick box selected for that student
The mark box now shows exempt and greyed out.

Guide last updated on October 24, 2024

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