How To Use the Assignment Tool

With the Assignment tool, you can see your assignments and their due dates. In addition to this, after you have submitted an assignment and your professor has finished grading it, you can check your grade as well as download your assignment to read your instructor's comments.

Using the Assignment Tool Viewing Assignments Downloading Files Submiting Assignments Retrieving an Assignment for Resubmission Viewing Graded Assignment Files

Using the Assignment Tool

Viewing Assignments

Note: The instructions should tell you what format your assignment should be prepared in and the naming convention for the files. You will typically prepare your assignment in a program such as Word document or HTML. Be sure to follow your instructor's instructions carefully with respect to the type of file that you are to submit. If your instructor has included assignment-related files for you to download, a file list appears at the bottom of the Assignment Information screen (e.g., assignment1.doc).

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Submitting Assignments

About late and multiple submissions

Instructors can allow late assignment submissions, with an unlimited cutoff date for submission, or with a specific cutoff date.

• If the instructor has allowed unlimited late submissions, you will see 'Late' next to the assignment, and the assignment will continue to be available to you.
• If the instructor has allowed limited late submissions, you will see 'Late' next to the assignment, and the assignment will continue to be available to you until the specified cutoff date has been reached. At that point, you will no longer be able to access the assignment.

Steps for submitting a late assignment are the same as those for any other assignment.

Instructors can also enable multiple submissions of an assignment. If this feature has been enabled, you will be able to retrieve your assignment if the due date of the assignment has not passed and the assignment has not yet been graded. See Retrieving an assignment for resubmission .

To submit an assignment

Submitting an assignment involves two steps:

1. Upload the file from your computer to WebCT.
2. Submit the file for grading.

Uploading files

1. From Assignments , click the assignment that you want to submit. The Assignment screen appears.
2. To upload the file, under Submit Assignments, click Upload file . The Upload File for Assignment screen appears.
3. To locate the file, click Browse to open your computer's file browser.
4. Select the file. The Upload File for Assignment screen reappears, with the path and filename displayed in the Filename text box.
5. Click Upload . The Assignment screen appears and the uploaded file is added to the Student files table.

Tip: If you want to remove uploaded files:

1. Next to each file you want to remove, select the check box and click Remove files . A confirmation message appears.
2. Click OK . The file is removed.

Submitting files for grading

If your instructor has enabled WebCT's email notification feature, you can receive email notification that your assignment was submitted successfully. Type your email address into the text box. Note : If your instructor has not enabled the email notification feature, this text box will not appear.

1. To submit the uploaded assignment(s), under Submit Assignment , click Submit assignment . The Submit Assignment screen appears. Notes : All assignments in the Student files table are submitted. Depending on administrator settings, you may be able to receive email notification that your assignment was submitted successfully. If applicable, enter your email address in the text box.
2. Click Submit assignment . A confirmation screen appears.
3. Click OK . The Assignments screen reappears, with Submitted displayed in the Status column. When the assignment has been graded, Submitted changes to Graded and your grade appears in the Grade column. Click Graded to view your instructor's comments about your work.

Notes:

• Filenames can contain any of the following: a–z , A–Z , 0–9 , spaces, _ , & , ( ) , – , . , and ~
  Note: The tilde (~) cannot be used as the first character in the filename.
• You should also add the file extension that corresponds to the software you used. For example, if you completed your assignment in Excel, add .xls to the filename if the software program doesn't automatically add it.

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Downloading Files

Downloading an assignment-related file involves transferring it from the server hosting your WebCT course to your own computer or diskette. If your instructor has included a file to be used to complete the assignment, click the filename of the file you want to download. When you do this, the download screen appears:

Click again on the name of the file. Depending on how you have your browser configured; it may automatically open the application with which to read the file. If this happens, then you may either print the file out or you may save it to your disk. If the application does not open, then a dialog box should appear. Follow the instructions in the dialog box to save the file on your computer or diskette. To return to the Assignments screen, click Close.

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Retrieving an Assignment for Resubmission

Note: This feature may not be available.

If the due date of the assignment has not passed or if the assignment has not yet been graded, your instructor may allow you to retrieve the assignment, modify it, and resubmit it. Important: If you retrieve and modify an assignment, you must resubmit it before the due date.

First, retrieve the assignment.

1. From Assignments , click the name of the assignment you want to retrieve. The Assignment screen appears.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click Retrieve Assignment . A confirmation message appears.
3. Click OK . The Retrieve Assignment screen appears confirming that your assignment has been retrieved.
4. Click the name of the assignment in the breadcrumbs. The Assignment screen appears.

Now, download the assignment so you can modify it.

1. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and, under Submit Assignment , click the filename of the assignment. A download screen appears in a new window.
2. Select the file and click Download .
3. Save the file to your local computer.
4. From the download screen, click Close . The Assignment screen appears.
5. Make all necessary changes to the assignment.

Finally, upload and resubmit the modified assignment.

1. From Assignments , click the name of the assignment you want to resubmit The Assignment screen appears.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and, under Submit Assignment , click Upload file . The Upload File for Assignment screen appears.
3. To locate the file, click Browse . Your computer's file browser appears.
4. Locate and select the file you want to upload.
5. Click Upload .
6. If the file you are uploading has the same name as the file you downloaded and you want to replace the old file with the updated one, from the Upload Status For Dropbox screen, click Upload again.
7. Scroll to the bottom of the screen, and under Submit Assignmen t, click Submit Assignment . A confirmation message appears.
8. Click OK . The Assignment Submission Confirmed screen appears.
9. To return to the Assignments screen, click Assignments in the breadcrumbs. The Assignments screen appears, with the message Submitted appearing next to Status . Note: The status changes once the assignment has been graded.

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Submitting files for grading

If your instructor has enabled WebCT's email notification feature, you can receive email notification that your assignment was submitted successfully. Type your email address into the text box. Note: If your instructor has not enabled the email notification feature, this text box will not appear.

1. To submit the uploaded assignment(s), under Submit Assignment, click Submit assignment. The Submit Assignment screen appears. Notes: All assignments in the Student files table are submitted. Depending on administrator settings, you may be able to receive email notification that your assignment was submitted successfully. If applicable, enter your email address in the text box.
2. Click Submit assignment. A confirmation screen appears.
3. Click OK. The Assignments screen reappears, with Submitted displayed in the Status column. When the assignment has been graded, Submitted changes to Graded and your grade appears in the Grade column. Click Graded to view your instructor's comments about your work.

Tip: The file name cannot contain any of the following characters: spaces, tabs, line feeds, carriage returns : ~ [ ] ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) + ` } } | \ < > , ? / ; ' " WebCT will not recognize file names with spaces, or characters that are not numbers or letters. You should also add the file extension that corresponds to the software you used. For example, if you completed your assignment in Excel, add .xls to the file name if the software program doesn't automatically add it.

• First, click "Upload file".
• Click "Browse" and locate the file on your hard drive or disk.
• Click on the name of the document you wish to upload.
• Click "Open".
• Click "Upload" to upload the file.
• You may upload additional files if you wish by going through the same process.
• Click "Submit assignment" when you are finished.

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Submitted Assignments

Now click Return to Assignments - the Assignments screen reappears, with the message Submitted appearing in the Status column.

When the assignment has been graded, this message changes to a hyperlink saying Graded and your grade appears in the Grade column (if released by your instructor). Click the hyperlink to view your instructor's comments about your work. Below is an example of what a graded assignment looks like.

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Viewing Graded Assignment Files

Assignments that are graded display Graded next to Status.

1. From Assignments, next to Status, click Graded. The Assignment Results screen appears with graded files under Graded files.
2. Click the name of the file you want to view or download.

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