{"id":1896,"date":"2020-04-07T08:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/tel-support-for-students\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2022-11-28T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:20:30","slug":"submitting-handwritten-exams-to-blackboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/tel-support-for-students\/2020\/04\/07\/submitting-handwritten-exams-to-blackboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanning and submitting handwritten work to an assessment in Blackboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This guidance outlines the steps that you should follow to submit scanned handwritten answers to take home exams and other assessments in Blackboard.<br \/>\nPlease ensure that when you submit the scans, that they are a single PDF file.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Write your answers<\/strong> to the questions onto plain, lined or graph A4 paper where possible, please include a number on the page that indicates the order.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a mobile phone, use a scanning App, such as:\n<ul>\n<li><strong> Microsoft Office Lens<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/microsoft-office-lens-for-ios-fbdca5f4-1b1b-4391-a931-dc1c2582397b?ui=en-us&amp;rs=en-us&amp;ad=us\">Android<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/microsoft-office-lens-for-ios-fbdca5f4-1b1b-4391-a931-dc1c2582397b?ui=en-us&amp;rs=en-us&amp;ad=us\">iOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Microsoft Office app\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/OfficeAppAndroid\">Android<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/OfficeAppiOS\">iOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li>or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT210336\">Apple iOS Notes Scanner<\/a>,<\/strong> to capture your pages.<br \/>\nWhichever app you plan to use, make sure that you have installed it in advance of the exam, and are confident in how to use it.<\/p>\n<p>Some apps only allow you to scan a few pages into a single file &#8211; 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see\u00a0&#8216;Submitting to a File Response question&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/tel-support-for-students\/gradescope\/\">Submitting to Gradescope<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"980\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4PHlQmGHl2c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If it really is not possible for you to combine your images into a single PDF, you can submit individual image files to a Blackboard Assignment.<\/p>\n<p>If you do this please ensure that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you submit all of the files in one attempt<\/li>\n<li>the files are submitted in the correct order<\/li>\n<li>the images all have the same orientation (not a mixture of landscape and portrait)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guidance outlines the steps that you should follow to submit scanned handwritten answers to take home exams and other assessments in Blackboard. 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