Tag: Marking

Uploading Basic Marks and Feedback to Blackboard

Posted on by Chrysanthi Tseloudi

This guidance provides a simplified alternative to the offline workflow, enabling you to provide short, typed feedback and marks to students via document upload. This approach is:

  • Best suited to in-person assessments, review of practice, offline submissions, or other workflows where it is not necessary to download materials submitted to Blackboard for offline review.
  • Only suitable where inline feedback (comments on submitted documents) and complex formatting for overall feedback is not required.
  • Cannot be used in conjunction with a Blackboard rubric.

Provide feedback

  1. Navigate to the Gradebook on the course.
  2. Select Download Gradebook from the top-right corner of the screen. This will open a panel of options on the right of the screen.
    Download icon highlighted
  3. In the panel:
    1. Select Full Gradebook.
    2. Select the assessment you wish to upload marks and feedback for. Note: you can only download one assessment at a time for this purpose.
    3. Toggle Include feedback for the selected item to on.
    4. Select Comma Separated Values (.csv) from the File Type options.
    5. Select My Device from the Save Location options.
  4. Select Download.
  5. Open the downloaded file in Excel, or save in a shared location if it needs to be accessed by multiple markers.
  6. Enter students’ marks in the column bearing the name of the assessment.
  7. Type feedback into the column named Feedback to Learner.
  8. If you wish to add notes not visible to the learner, you can add these in the Marking Notes column.
  9. When the spreadsheet is completed, return to the course’s Gradebook.
  10. Select Upload Gradebook from the top-right corner of the screen. This will open a panel of options on the right of the screen.
    Upload icon highlighted
  11. In the panel, either:
    • drag-and-drop your file from your computer into the drop-box provided, or
    • select Upload local file and locate the file from your computer’s File Explorer.
  12. Wait for the upload to complete.
  13. Select Upload.

Both feedback and grades will be added to the column in the Gradebook. There can be a short delay for larger volumes of data. 

Note

To realise anonymity, provide a separate spreadsheet to markers with only the Student ID, Grade and Feedback to Learner columns. Do not edit the original spreadsheet columns as this can impact document upload.

Alternatively, provide the original spreadsheet and hide the relevant columns in Excel. 

Transfer marks from Blackboard to SITS

Posted on by digitaleducation

Only administrators with the Marks Extractor role in Blackboard can extract marks.

  1. Navigate to the Blackboard course you wish to extract grades from.
  2. Click on View course and institution tools under the Course tools header in the course’s menu bar.
  3. From the list of tools, select Marks extract to SITS. This will launch the Grade Approval Tool LTI, which sends the marks from Blackboard to eVision (SITS). It can take a few moments to load.
  4. From the list, select the unit code and course name you want to extract marks for by clicking on the box to the left of the Course ID. The box will turn green and a tick will appear.
  5. Click on Grade column approval and transfer.
  6. Select the assignment/column name you wish to extract, again clicking on the box to the left of the name.
  7. Click Grade approval and transfer. In the next screen you can either:
    • Search for specific students you want to extract marks for by entering their name details into the search bar. Once you have found the student(s), select them by clicking on the box to the left of their details.
    • Click the box at the top of the list of students to select all of the students in the list with submissions.
  8. Click on Extract grades.

Related guides: Assessment Online