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Post Student Marks

To allow students to view their marks and feedback for Blackboard internal assessment tools such as, Assignments, Discussions, Journals and manually marked Tests, you need to Post Marks in the Gradebook, marking screen or the assessment submission tab.

NB* For summative assessment programme administrators will Post Marks when all the marks are in and the agreed marking Turn-around-Time has been reached.

You can do this for the whole assignment in the Gradebook Markable Items or Marks view from the overview level.

Post marks in Gradebook

Markable Items View

From the Gradebook Markable Items view the Post Mark(s) buttons will be available once there are marks to post. For summative work programme administrators will post the marks.

  1. The number of papers submitted will be listed in the item column.
  2. All Marked in the marking status column means that all the submitted papers have been marked
  3. When the status column still indicates that there are papers to be marked, it is still possible to post any marks already given.
Showing the gradecentre markable items. Steps 1 and 2 shown.

Marks View

From the Mark view it is possible to post marks for the whole column if you click on the column icon. For summative work programme administrators will post the marks.

  • The marks will be visible to students in their Gradebook.
  • If a student has not yet submitted they will not see a mark and can still submit.
  • If a student submits late their marks will not be visible to student until they are posted.

Post individual marks

From the Mark view it is also possible to post individual marks for specific papers, without posting all the marks, even if they are available.

  • To post individual marks click on the mark and select Post from the content menu. For summative work programme administrators will post the marks.

Post marks in Submission tab

Open the assessment from the Course Content or the Gradebook, select the submissions list, from there you can either select Post all marks, for the whole assignment or post individual marks for students. For summative work Programme Administrators will post marks.

Highlighting Post Marks for one student or Post All Marks button at top of submissions list.

Post marks while marking

For formative assessment it is possible to post the marks directly from the Marking screen.

Do not use this function with summative submissions.

For summative assessments all the marks are released together on the 15 day Turnaround Time. Your administrator will do this after checking all submissions.


Guide last updated on August 2, 2024

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