Collection of Assessment guides. i.e. Creating assignments, Managing permissions, and Marking & Feedback
Blackboard Ultra allows you to add additional columns to the Gradebook. These can be used for returning marks and feedback to students when the assessment has taken place outside of Blackboard and there is not submission to mark. Please note that you can not use a Rubric with these manual columns. Add a Column New […]
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Online Exam Practice areas for 2025 are now live (for Staff – available to students from 9th December): Course Code/link Practice course PRACTICE_AREA_APD_2025 Online Exams Practice Area – Agriculture 2025 PRACTICE_AREA_HES_2025 Online Exams Practice Area – Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science 2025 PRACTICE_AREA_BIO_2025 Online Exams Practice Area – Biological Sciences 2025 PRACTICE_AREA_HUM_2025 Online Exams Practice
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When marking assingments, journals and discussions with rubrics, you may need to override grades to create integer grades. However, you can undo the override. This guide aims to outline how to do this and explain some of the messages which are displayed when marking. Blackboard Assignments (One Submission)Blackboard Assignments (Multiple Submissions)Blackboard Assignments (Anonymous Submissions)Blackboard Assessed
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Recommended Settings for submission points The recommended settings for each of the possible assessment tools are laid out step by step in the document Recommended settings for Online Exam submission points 2025, this is a word document, which will download. This is designed as a working document for Programme Administration teams, to help them apply
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When you have created a Blackboard test you can choose to Print a physical copy of the test for students to take. This will be printed with an answer sheet for this specific test. This is useful for if you are Printing Pools of questions. The pop up print preview window will display the test
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Delegated grading is primarily used where there are multiple markers, and each marker is assigned a selected group of students to mark. It is the only way to filter anonymous submissions by group in Blackboard Assignment. Delegated marking can be enabled when creating the submission point or by editing the settings, even after submissions have
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Blackboard Assignment tool allows a number of attempts (1-9) or unlimited attempts. This guide will look at the options in the assignment setting on how the attempts can be used to calculate the final mark and how marking with multiple attempts works in the Blackboard Assignment marking screen. Multiple Attempt OptionsMarking Multiple Attempts Multiple Attempt
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Posting Marks in the Gradebook or marking screen makes them visible to students. The “Post Marks” action is handled by Programme Administrator teams only for all summative assessment. Please follow this advice as it is not possible to un-post marks. Markers please advise your Programme Administrative team if you have posted marks for summative assessments
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The Ultra Gradebook has filtering features which allow users to filter their gradebook view by multiple variables, such as individual users, groups, items, and categories. You can also filter the Gradebook to only show students on merged courses. This offers more flexibility for users wanting to get a focused view of their Gradebook. Applied filters
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