To allow students to view their marks and feedback for Blackboard internal assessment tools such as, Assignments, Discussions, Journals and manually marked Tests, Programme Administrators need to Post Marks in the Gradebook, marking screen or the assessment submission tab.
NB* For summative assessments markers do not post marks. They will be posted by the programme admin team at the date and time when marks are ready to be returned to students.
- Post marks in the Gradebook
- Post marks in the submission tab
- Post marks while marking
- Turnitin and Post Marks
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.
- The number of papers submitted will be listed in the item column.
- All Marked in the marking status column means that all the submitted papers have been marked
- When the status column still indicates that there are papers to be marked, it is still possible to post any marks already given.
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.
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.
Turnitin and Post Marks
For Turnitin the feedback release date automatically posts the marks. From this point the students will be able to view their marks and feedback via the Gradebook or the Turnitin submission point.
Please note that for any marking taking place are after the Feedback Release Date the marks and feedback will be immediately visible to students. Hiding the submission point will hide the assessment in the Gradebook and vice versa.
However before the feedback release date has been reached you can post individual marks. Please be aware that students will only see their mark. Feedback is not available (ever) until the feedback release date has been reached, if the date is pushed into the future the feedback will return to being hidden.
If there is an assessment where the feedback is not a factor then it would be possible to put the feedback release date into the future and use the posting function to control who sees their marks.
Guide last updated on November 1, 2024
