Using the Assignment Dropbox utility
| About Assignments |
| Getting Started |
| View Assignment |
| View Assignment Instructions |
| Compose Your Response |
| View Your Grade |
| View Assignment Results and Feedback |
The Assignment Dropbox allows your instructor to create and distribute course assignments to students, download student submissions, evaluate, and assign a grade to the completed work. Once graded, you can click on the "graded" link to view your graded file and/or look at your numerical grade and general feedback from your instructor.
To upload and submit completed assignment files, and check graded work and comments students must follow the procedure below.
Students can use Assignments
only after the Assignment tool is posted to the course.
Usually, you will find Assignments
linked on the homepage and/or on the Course Menu.
Find the link to the assignment
dropbox in your course and click on it.
Note: Icons and the title
of the assignment dropbox may vary depending upon the course.
The Assignments screen appears.
Click the hyperlinked name
of the assignment you want to view (the link has a small pencil icon beside
it). If the pencil icon does not appear next to the assignment, the assignment
may be locked or unavailable to you. See the availability dates for the
assignment.
Select the hotlink next to the pencil icon (in this case, you would select "Practice 1").
The Assignment Instruction screen appears.
This screen displays the due
date for the assignment, instructions for the completion of the assignment,
and its maximum grade.
The Assignment Instructions
screen also lists assignment-related files, if available.
Compose your response according to the Assignment Instructions.
Use your own software applications (e.g., Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or any other application as required) to complete assignments according to what the instructor requires. Most instructors require specific filetypes and/or filenames for submitted assignments. WebCT will not recognize filenames with spaces or containing characters that are not numbers or letters. Be sure that your files are virus-free. Save the file to your disk or computer.
Mac users: It will be necessary to include the extension at the end of the file names you create. For example, if submitting an assignment created in Microsoft Word, you will have to type the ".doc" extension onto the end of your file name.
Uploading and Submitting an Assignment
First you need to upload your document file from your own computer to WebCT , then you will submit the file.
To choose your file to upload,
click 
.
The "Upload File For Assignment" screen appears.
To locate the file, click
Browse to open your local computer's browser.
Navigate to the file.
Select the file by clicking
on it. The path to the file will appear in the box next to the Browse button.
Select 
to upload the file.
The file will appear under the submit assignment section (see the picture below).
Repeat the upload procedure if the assignment requires more than one file to be uploaded.
Next, select the file(s) you wish to submit by clicking the checkbox to the left of the filename(s).
Click 
Note: Once you submit an assignment you may NOT resubmit the assignment.
A confirmation box appears asking you to confirm the procedure.
Click OK
The confirmation screen should read Success: Your assignment has been successfully submitted (see picture below). Note: you can view the submitted file by clicking on the filename.
Your assignment status will now read "submitted"
Note: This status may read unavailable between the time the assignment closes and when your instructor grades your assignment.
When the assignment has been graded, your numerical grade appears and the Status message changes to a hyperlink that says "Graded". Click "Graded" to view your instructor's comments and the corrected file if one is returned to you.
View Assignment Results and Feedback
Notice that both your original
file and the graded one are pictured here. Your instructor's general comments
are listed below the file along with the numerical grade. Detailed comments
are usually included in the graded file if/when appropriate.
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